Congrats. Your ability to live there is heavily subsidized by everyone who lives near other people in properly dense cities. Car-centric infrastructure was built to cater to your lifestyle inside those cities, to the detriment of those who live there. The traffic is (minutely, minusculely) your fault. Mostly the fault of those who advocate for you, but you still reap all the benefits.
Thanks for your apology! It wasn’t necessary, but is accepted. I sympathize, though don’t fully agree, with your position (and, at least for me, associated anxiety that might lead to hostility).
Hopefully, someday soon, an ideal world with minimally impactful individual transportation comes around.
My commute followed the oposite of rush hour. I lived in the city and would commute out to a smaller town for work, whereas most people in that town commute to the city. So i was always going against the flow of heavy traffic. I recently moved to the small town and for the most part avoid the traffic except at the end of my day when i sometimes have to make a left across the flow of rush hour evening traffic to get back home. There are very few traffic lights on that stretch so sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes to have a safe gap in the traffic.
Nah, it should clear out by then.
doesn’t live in a large city
I live in a remote area and WFH. For me, a traffic jam is when farm equipment enters the road, or occasionally when there is roadwork.
I’ve seen as many as five cars lined up waiting in those circumstances!
Congrats. Your ability to live there is heavily subsidized by everyone who lives near other people in properly dense cities. Car-centric infrastructure was built to cater to your lifestyle inside those cities, to the detriment of those who live there. The traffic is (minutely, minusculely) your fault. Mostly the fault of those who advocate for you, but you still reap all the benefits.
All righty then.
Yeah, sorry. Was being unnecessarily snarky.
Thanks for your apology! It wasn’t necessary, but is accepted. I sympathize, though don’t fully agree, with your position (and, at least for me, associated anxiety that might lead to hostility).
Hopefully, someday soon, an ideal world with minimally impactful individual transportation comes around.
My commute followed the oposite of rush hour. I lived in the city and would commute out to a smaller town for work, whereas most people in that town commute to the city. So i was always going against the flow of heavy traffic. I recently moved to the small town and for the most part avoid the traffic except at the end of my day when i sometimes have to make a left across the flow of rush hour evening traffic to get back home. There are very few traffic lights on that stretch so sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes to have a safe gap in the traffic.