Well then we should probably get together and yell at the politicians who are obstructing the very thing I'm talking about. Like Tiffany Raspberry, Menashe Shapiro, and Francisco Moya, who were listed in the article on this post.

I'm not saying you owning and using a car is an unreasonable decision. And I don't fault people for using a car to drive to work or pick up groceries. In most places in the US people don't have any other choice -- biking is way too dangerous as it is usually forced to mix with cars especially at high speeds, equivalent bus trips would take way too long due a mixture of infrequent slow buses and ineffective bus routes, and the distances are generally too far to walk. But with the right changes, we can make those alternatives viable for many more people in the city. I don't want people to take a suboptimal route because they don't want to use a car, I want the optimal route to not need a car at all.

The whole topic of urban planning is quite big with sometimes counter-intuitive results. I used to think that adding more lanes on a highway would relieve traffic congestion, but as it turns out it makes it even worse due to induced demand. The amount of lanes that you would need to be able to counter induced demand would be astronomical. The true way to solve traffic congestion is to give viable alternatives to driving so that people don't need to drive. If you want to learn more about this topic I highly recommend the youtube channel Not Just Bikes, in particular the video on "Stroads" is a good starting point as well as The best country in the world for drivers though all of his videos are great.