The conservative tendency to car apologia is really disappointing. For some reason, it's perceived to be consistent with the conservative worldview, but it isn't. Automobile supremacy requires massive social engineering and state intervention and car-based cities can only remain as such by artificially limiting homebuilding (and therefore density). If you set individuals free to build what the market demands they will create cities in which it's very unpleasant to drive (i.e. densely populated city centers) and those cities will need to solve the transportation problem some other way. The only way you can prevent that is to, well, literally prevent it -- i.e. make it illegal (via zoning).

It’s true that progressives are wild about transit, but I wish more conservatives resisted the urge to view cars as the natural political opposite.