As a staunch urbanist, I love the idea of the 15-minute city, but that lifestyle seems out of touch from most people’s reality. Allowing nearby amenities is easy from a land use perspective, but work, school choice, and childcare are other matters entirely. How do advocates reconcile the problem of most working households needing to commute to wherever they can find work, or needing to drive their children to consolidated schools outside their neighborhood? This is our traffic problem.