Yeah what Texas is doing sounds pretty horrible, I’m not disagreeing with that. You mention a couple of steps that could be taken to partially remedy the problem and begin correcting the course, but from what I’ve seen, the anti-car movement calls for entirely walkable cities, and what you’ve stated is not enough to achieve that.

The city that I’m living in is probably one of the most extreme examples of urban sprawl that I know of. Making my city walkable and not dependent on cars would be impossible without consolidating the population to a much smaller area.