That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing. The way to fix it is to stop building large dense cities. We need tax incentives for companies to create jobs in sparsely-populated regions and for remote jobs. Also probably something like cap-and-trade for dense office space. This way, eventually we won't need Downtowns with super-concentrated o…
With sparsely populated areas you also have logistics problems but no economy of scale. Every stand-alone dwelling adds new infrastructure requirements to the road/power/water/fuel system and increases maintenance costs. Cities tend to be net tax payers while suburban and rural areas tend to be net tax beneficiaries, subsidized by the taxes from cities.
Both types of places are important, but rural and suburban are already heavily tax-advantaged.