His way of thinking would make life worse I feel, even when he presents something that would ease congestion it's unsettling how much he hates the idea of individual free movement. I used to love cycling in my small hometown with 3000 people as well as the other towns I lived in with 15000 and 25000-ish people, barely ever had to wait at intersections whether you were cycling or driving, good bike lanes, nice amounts of shops and services. Long distance train trips between one medium size city and another were always nice.
Moved into the big city for college and only there developed hate for walking, cycling and public transport even though there's a bus stop right next to my front door. Congestion in cities is everywhere, too many people walking, too many people standing in line in buildings, too many people at road crossings, traffic lights, buses, trains. It's all dogshit. I live at the edge of the central where the suburban single home area begins and I went the route of just buying a car and driving AWAY from the central towards the exurban small hubs where they have a small shop, small bank etc. it's further away but there's less people on foot, less people in cars, less people in line to the buildings so it just works. And nobody is going that way, everyone is going the other way to pack into the centrum that can't FIT THEM ALL.
The solution isn't to become even more of a prisoner of public timetables in a high-rise shithole packed full of crowds, the solution would be to put a government limit on how many office buildings and employers can build in one city center. If quota is full, they have to be built at least 25 kilometres away so a smaller town forms around them. Millions of disconnected small towns with so few people there's zero congestion to any business building, and lots of train routes between the towns. Overlooking this is a huge miss.
