> Do you have citations for those numbers?

Road wear scales as 4-th power of axle weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

The average loads: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/mobility/perso...

The CO2 impact by transport mode: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

Nothing I'm saying is controversial. Heck, even urbanists admit that, they just try to avoid talking about it.

> Also, everything about density in relation to quality of life is pretty subjective. Luckily, we have cities for both!

My problem is with people that try to remake wonderful cities like Seattle into Manhattan-style hellscapes. And this is a result of market forces, that need to be counteracted via political regulation.

I'd love to live in Houston, but I just can't tolerate its weather. I tried.

Thanks for the links, I’ll read through them when I get a chance.

And feel free to argue about keeping Seattle the way it is. I have no interest in changing Seattle. Just leave my Manhattan out of it :)

If the extraordinarily boring, centerless, sprawling city that is Seattle is your idea of wonderful, you can have it! Young people are moving to NYC over Seattle because that’s the sort of city environment they want to live in.