Nothing you do to my city planning will make taking the bus at temperatures -20 and below a pleasant, desirable experience.
Everything where I live is accessible, but there's nothing you can do to make a bus schedule beat a car trip, and it's ridiculous that somebody a couple of miles away needs to be an hour away to justify a tiny bump in density for idealists.
It's more attractive than driving when the bus runs every ten minutes in a dedicated lane, and the car user has to pay the real cost of parking rather than have the city provide it. I know because I lived in a place like this. I used the car to leave town and for some larger shopping, everything within a few miles I accessed on foot, bike, or transit. With fewer people using cars for short trips, all of those things become a lot more pleasant.
Everything where I live is accessible, but there's nothing you can do to make a bus schedule beat a car trip, and it's ridiculous that somebody a couple of miles away needs to be an hour away to justify a tiny bump in density for idealists.