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Sure, we can absolutely have both, we should just be preferring mass transit to personal transit for populated areas.
In my area, we have:
We've been having more traffic recently, so what's the state-wide transportation system's decision? Delay expansion of rail and expand the highway.
What we should instead be doing is:
Transit will never fully replace personal vehicles, but it can drastically reduce the need for driving within urban and suburban areas. Rail lines are a lot cheaper to maintain than roads, and trains can carry a lot more people than cars. In other words, if we can get people to use trains more than cars, we can reduce our spending on transportation infrastructure.
We should absolutely keep and improve our existing highway infrastructure, but we should also be phasing out a lot of our road infrastructure in densely populated areas in favor of mass transit options that move people more efficiently.