Too much money and effort has been direct to everything but roads. Bike paths, inner-city transit, green programs, high or low speed rail, carpool lanes actually do not remove congestion.
This is all part of the master plan - make it as difficult as possible for normal Americans to own/operate motor vehicles so that escape is hopeless, force us onto orc-filled buses and trains where diversity can be embraced to its fullest, shoe-horn everybody into “sustainable/walkable neighborhoods,” and, presto, fundamental transformation!!! Everyone is trapped in the same, leftwing rat hole. Bike fetishists claim a majority of Americans DEMAND more bike lanes and fewer lanes for motor vehicles, but it’s all nonsense - pure community organizing clap-trap fiction. I know this for a fact. These fascists poll themselves at bike riding events, and then claim the results are a scientific survey: “98 percent of Americans say they’d ride bikes everywhere, every day, if they just had the lanes to do so!” You’d get as legitimate a poll if you surveyed all the patrons of a San Francisco drag bar and asked if they support gay marriage.