Right, people are intelligent enough to not go into a gridlocked city if they have a choice. They'll avoid it altogether. This is the problem with this class o

Right, people are intelligent enough to not go into a gridlocked city if they have a choice. They'll avoid it altogether. This is the problem with this class of argument, and the one in the article. They rely on cherry-picking data or isolated observations. I haven't seen any of these arguments try to take into account transportation quality measures like travel time index, average commute time/distance, average trip time, physical mobility, number of jobs, wages and population over time, or satisfaction levels.