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I feel like this is a chicken and egg problem. Without the transportation infrastructure you can't get the population/business density, but without the population density you can't justify the infrastructure. Houston could probably build decent rail transportation to get you where you needed to go, but it won't happen. I live in a city like yours, our public transportation is atrocious. It takes at least an hour to get anywhere.

This is precisely because of the car-oriented policies. "We built this city for driving, and now you have no choice but to drive!" Well, duh.

Now you can double down on that, I guess, but cars scale rather poorly, and they're probably part of why Americans are so fat.

Hey another Houstonian! My thoughts exactly.