The easy solution to all this is to start encouraging companies to promote work-from-home days. If you do the bulk of your work on a computer, there's no reason

The easy solution to all this is to start encouraging companies to promote work-from-home days. If you do the bulk of your work on a computer, there's no reason you absolutely need to go into the office every single weekday to get your job done. If every company that allowed their employees who could work from home to do so at least once per week and worked together to evenly distribute those days throughout the work week, we'd see a massive drop in traffic. This could easily be done by providing tax incentives for doing so, and the money saved on road maintenance alone would likely pay for it. I can't get over how insane it is that we all insist that we need to work face to face when our faces are buried in a computer screen for the vast majority of our work days. It's absurd.