Erin Hallissy writes about "The Nastiest Commute" in today’s San Francisco Chronicle covering the Census Bureau’s study of average commute times in various regions of the country. The bureau claims the average commute in Contra Costa is 32.1 minutes and that about 5 percent of us spend up to 90 minutes getting to work. Erin quotes a number of residents who are skeptical of the numbers.
I know our traffic congestion is politically intolerable. But what would have happened if job centers had not decentralized throughout the Bay Area over the past 30 years? If all or most of the jobs had stayed in Oakland or San Francisco wouldn’t things be far worse?
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