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This actually the opposite: he sees it as a positive, which might be sensible on a first look. But there are various problems with it, which completely counterbalance the initial benefits, and which he does not aknowledge. For instance - traffic will tend to grow until congestion negates the initial decrease in generalized cost. For instance, someone living 15 min from downtown might decide to move out in the suburbs due to the low cost of travel: 25 minutea to town is an acceptable tradeoff for the increase in housing quality. But after 10 or 15 years, downtown ends up being 60 minutes away: the household ends up being worst off than if they had stayed downtown. - car need space also when they do not move. If more people go somewhere by car, you meed more parking spaces. Parking space is dead and depressing, and replaced dense accessible neighborhoods, in particular in the USA - transport in general, but in particular car, has negative externalities (negative effects experienced by persons different from the ones benefiting from it). Air pollution or increased travel time to cross the urban area are examples