Public transit can't solve any problems if Americans won't use it. Instead, better roads and better technology are needed. Amazingly, this choice opposes the idea of making plans for the logical growth of communities. Thinking ahead avoids costly mistakes. This choice would put Americans at the mercy of an unbridled real estate market.
Free markets operate best within constraints that reflect societal values.
This choice, which supports unlimited rural growth, offers no protection to farms and forests in the path of development. In concentrating public spending in suburban communities, this choice would substantially increase growth pressures on them as they became more attractive. In preventing new suburban communities from forming, this choice would force more families into urban neighborhoods, thus displacing low-income families. In rolling back rules governing real estate, this choice would require people to take much more responsibility for protecting their property rights in court.