[Spellman]

Definitely what I've sen as well.

Plus, traffic could be dealt with by better planning so you didn't have to funnel everyone through 2 intersections to get to work every day. But people instead want to add more lanes because more people automatically means more traffic.

It's less the property values as much as "I liked it when I moved in and don't want more people moving in"

[davidw]

One of my favorite deeper dives into 'traffic':

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/16/everyone-knows...

Some key points:

A well connected grid is more robust to failure.

Allowing people to, say, open businesses near where people live lets everyone drive less - or maybe even walk or bike! But this is by and large no longer a 'done thing' with big american suburbs.