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I feel like that was covered by the "Everyone just has to move into transit accessible cities" statement.

That’s fine. We could cut probably 30-50% off our car use that way provided we could completely overrule NIMBYs and force massive urban development.

That would leave the other 50-70% of the country.

Before that, we had horses or donkeys to get around, as far as I can tell owning a household or personal beast of burden was about as common as personal or household car ownership is now.

People act like cars created a new paradigm, and they didn't - they extended and improved an old one.

In rural areas, yes, if you had the money. In cities walking, trains, and omnibuses were just as common. Suburbs didn't exist yet - they were specifically a coinvention of cars in the same way that you can't have smartphones without the cloud.

Proto Suburbs did exist, sorta, but the nascent middle class was so small as to be meaningless

The earliest suburbs were along rail lines but they really exploded with cars.

The specific case in point is holiday travel, though. You can't fix that with urban planning.