Sorta like it's an Easterner thing to live so close to your neighbors you can hear 'em breathe and watch their TV's.
Houston needs light rail like it needs snowplows; it's a solution to a problem they do not have - masses of people in one place all wanting to go to the same other place.
And at heart it's a bunch of big-city wannabe's and transplanted Yankees who think they'll be big if they have all the trappings of bigness.
Yes, we like living in communities out here near to our fellow humans. Sprawl living is one the planks of Communism created by Karl Marx, and promoted by the French Socialist Le Corbusier.
"Plank #9 - Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country." (Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto)
"The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live another 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. We shall use up tires, wear out road surfaces and gears, consume oil and gasoline. All of which will necessitate a great deal of work...enough for all." (Le Corbusier, "The Radiant City", 1967)
So ya'll live in a Socialist dream world. How do ya' like them apples?