You can’t really expect a man advised by the CEO of the world’s most valuable car company to make a decision in favour of public transport.

He literally also had a rail company that he'd been plugging for over a decade.

the real alternative to cars was staring us in the face all through COVID. How many people wake up every day, jump into 2-3 tons of their own personal metal, drive for an hour, only to sit staring at the same screens they were looking at through Remote Desktop for 18 months, then do the same thing to get home?

There's material benefit to second and third spaces when collaborating on large, long term projects. And suburbanization is as much at the root of the two hour commute as simple office work.

That said, sure. Telecommuting does quickly what infrastructure improvements would need decades to accomplish.

But we can’t have that forever, because fuck us.

Everything has to be in the service of the short term profitablity of landlords.