> It seems the root cause of traffic is a mismatch between jobs and housing Which I suspect is quite natural, because it is driven by a mismatch between where

> It seems the root cause of traffic is a mismatch between jobs and housing Which I suspect is quite natural, because it is driven by a mismatch between where people want to be when they are working (commercial districts) and where people want to be when they aren't (anything except commercial districts). When you have errands to run, or want a day out exploring, you want all of that in the same place. When you get home at night, you don't want to be next to the noise, parking lots, crowds of people, airports, ...