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It is. But the problem is that the US is about 80-100 years behind Europe in this.

Personal economies are literally built on the idea of driving, it will be painful to solve that, but unfortunately it’s necessary to solve it otherwise you end up losing enormous amounts of your life to traffic and the infrastructure cost grows exponentially.

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America is simply too big for public transit to replace cars to any great extent.

There's an old cliche that goes something like, "In America, people think 100 years is a long time. In Europe, people think 100 kilometers is a long distance." It's pretty much spot on.

Even assuming this is fair (which I don't believe it is) that doesn't explain the localized problems per city that we're discussing.

I'm not convinced the physical size is the problem.

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