To which the counterpoint is "new urbanism" and/or "Agenda 21", which is the Left's general opposition to roads/freeways, and which tries to promote taxpayer subsidized fixed-line mass-transit.
Because in the eye of the Left, instead of looking at the effects of their policies creating multi-generational failure and dependency, leading to criminality, which in turn creates white flight, middle-class black flight, riots, and property values and a tax-base that drops like a rock within a decade, and reassessing if this is really what they ought to be doing... instead the answer is to double down and try to create a rail system so nobody can leave.