What is your goal? Why is that your goal? Why criminalise long commutes, specifically? Have you considered other factors which lead to long commutes? - Low

What is your goal? Why is that your goal? Why criminalise long commutes, specifically? Have you considered other factors which lead to long commutes? - Low development density. - Poor transit alternatives: inconvenient locations, intervals, amenities, service hours, costs, transfers, crime, ...) - Low walkability and bikeability. - High cost of housing. - Low personal transportation costs (vehicles, fuel, registration, insurance, parking, maintenance). - Poor employment options and lack of adoption of remote or flex-time schedules. - Overly centralised employment and/or manufacturing. - Numerous economic, political, and cultural dynamics incentivising wasteful and inefficient lifestyles. In many ways, growth of the private automobile was based on or accelerated these tendencies, sometimes through criminal collusion.[1] During early industrialisation, streetcars and commuter rail (often electrified) extended the reach of towns from a mile or two across to many miles in extant. Commuter rail enabled "bedroom community" suburbs 25--50 miles from downtowns (40--80 km). On-premesis dormatories were also common (and remain so in places such as China), see the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany.[2] Generally, if you want people to do less of some thing, the best way is either to make that thing more expensive, or to make its alternatives less expensive and/or more appealing. COVID-19 did this, in the noneconomic sense of making tightly-packed offices a health risk and remote work through phone, Zoom, and cloud-based computing a more attractive alternative. Think though what you want to achieve and how you might best get there, though. ________________________________ Notes: 1. E.g., the General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...> 2. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei>