You all do realize that suburbs existed before the invention of the car right? American infrastructure is bad but it’s not irredeemable, the assumption that we can’t provide public transportation to these places because of a lack of resources is malthusian. And sure some places like the American Southwest and Florida are legitimately over human population carrying capacity due to climate change but in general the earth as a whole isn’t, and cities like Amsterdam are just as unsustainable as Miami since even though has one of those le epic reddit notjustbikes cityskylines approved infrastructure, both are below the sea level.
I think in general our message should be abolish the need to own the automobile, any measures meant to limit car use should target the rich before the poor. And that trains are good, and that a high speed train across the United States would be a rather popular project in the eyes of even the chuds. And by god stop calling for the suburbs to be razed, stop trying to be zoomer Robert Moses.
they chose to eat the cost and presumably it's proportionately less because the providers of those services aren't extracting profit from them, and they stand atop several decades of competent governance. things the US definitely doesn't have going for it.
if you want to talk about a communist united states trying to meet the needs of people who live with the cows and don't have plumbing, maybe we could afford to choose to do some things for them but you can't run a train to every weirdo's house. you probably can't do one doctor per household.