How come some of you guys have inadequate public transport options? How long does it take for you to go to the town centre to do your daily chores? Sorry for asking this but in my city, there is a sophisicated transportation network and I live very close to a MTR station. (5 minutes walk.)
My husband and I carpool to work. It's about a 45 minute drive one way to get from our part of town to the area close to downtown where we work - and that's using the HOV lane. If we drove in the main highway lanes, it'd take more than an hour.
Our city is simply huge, and public transportation wasn't planned as it grew - so it's been kinda an attempt to catch up over the last couple decades. In some areas, they would have to actually take down buildings in order to make it any better, which isn't likely to happen in a hurry.