Are you saying government is trying to limit people's movements to keep them in certain locations?!
( I could take that as a deadpan joke, but it's actually quite a serious point)
Not exactly, but close. I'm saying they purposely sway the mass effect of choices by making some more attractive and some less. Yet, admittedly, in a way, they do favor locations living near easy access to mass transit. So the effort is to encourage, not exactly limit. Although, much infrastructure activity has the effect of limiting (or herding) the public. It's called urban design. (but yes, Ayn Rand thought urban design was one aspect of overlord control)
The US does that too. Basically the diamond lane is one example. It makes the choice of busing or ride sharing more attractive at the cost of less access for single rider driving. It has not always worked very well in the US, but the threshold that triggers a mass change has not often been reached.
Here in Pheonix, I would have to change many busses to get to some places of work, taking me hours to arrive. And bus hours do not cover the schedule window for many destinations. Three hours out and back plus 9 at work is well over 14 hours total. Who can live like that? While a car maybe gets me there in 30 minutes to an hour.
A bus pass cost maybe $30 to $70 /mo? A car costs hundreds in gas and insurance and hundreds more in loan interest etc. Even so, my threshold to switch to busing has not been reached. If you live just next to a rail-car station, and work is too, maybe your threshold is different.
But in NewYorkCity, the subway is the faster/ cheaper method in most commutes. They had no choice but to do the urban design that way, individual transport was not going to cut it. Are New Yorkers being herded? You bet ya. De-centralizing all cities might have been a better option, but location and money politics favors centralization.
SO, on that last point, New York City (by itself) would never spend any money to create New YorkTwo (or improve the wider New Jersey), only on transport that feeds into New York commerce. They choose the best design for properity of those weilding the money, not as much for the comfort of the public at large. (What the Goose likes is not always what the Gander needs )
(No wonder some of us feel like rats in a maze, I hope that was a joke.
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