I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
I'm well aware of that, but does every street need to be 100% pedestrian? Does every alleyway? Why do beltways need sidewalks when you're not really expected to walk from place to place in them?
Is every urbanite a backpacker now?
I can't walk to the nearest grocery store without getting on the shoulder of a road people are driving 60 on in a number of towns I've been to. That's fucking goofy.
Sidewalks and bigger lanes in general would be a road improvement in most urban areas.
If people can feasibly walk to a place I don't want them on the shoulder and playing frogger to do it, instead of staying in marked and controlled crosswalks and sidewalks. Bikes shouldn't be getting in the way of cars, either - but you need more than a foot wide "bike lane" on the shoulder, that is often featuring broken glass and car detritus, to get them out of the way.
Are you willing to shoulder the tax burden these improvements would incur? What about the increased congestion and subsequent increase in traffic accidents making these improvemdnts in those areas would incur?
Many times the roads are that way because those areas were originally zones for industry and weren't meant to have foot traffic to begin with, but people started building close to the roadway and now major changes would have to be made. A city I used to live in had to pay to have two houses literally picked up and shipped across town to make some of those same improvements and still nobody uses that sidewalk.
It would be a hell of a lot better use of my tax dollars than most of the bullshit they go to.