As a city-dweller and (reverse) commuter (driving to a suburb for work / residing in downtown) I’m always really bothered by the amount of traffic and the time / money spent to accommodate it. Stuff like this, combined with the increasing prevalence of telecommuting makes me question our reliance on car transit. I get WHY we allow, or HOW we have allowed, ourselves to commute in the tens of thousands over relatively great distances, but I feel as populations continue to boom and our environments continue to degrade, a return to more local living/working is near necessary. Setting up walking communities or micro villages within cities like this, where people live, work, etc would relieve so much traffic congestion. It would be a major change in infrastructure/life style, but there are plenty of jobs that could do away with the 9-5 office time and fall back on telecommuting or satellite work communities. Subsidize housing for employers/employees living / working in a single neighborhood.
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