> Most Americans do not work in city center and can avoid driving the super congested trips into downtown They often can't avoid very congested trips to the ne

> Most Americans do not work in city center and can avoid driving the super congested trips into downtown They often can't avoid very congested trips to the neighboring suburb where their job is located. Even if many jobs aren't located downtown, they are located in suburban industrial or office clusters that severely lack in public transit, and are subject to severe traffic congestion. Furthermore, the effect of this increasing dispersal of jobs has been to increase average commute times, not decrease them [1]. Anecdotally, over my career, I've experienced this sort of long suburb-to-suburb commute in states as varied as Michigan, Texas, Washington and California. 1. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Srvy_JobsProximity.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Srvy_Jo...