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The problem goes back to the 50's with the Highway Act.
-Residential areas spread out requiring great travel distances and the means(aka cars).
-Daily life became more complex, and travel speeds increased, as well as expectations.
-Demand for leeway overcame supply and begot the traffic jam. Enter "present day" stage left.
So in response, personal vehicles became faster and larger? Who is actually pushing that ideology? There needs to be a serious reality check with many Americans. Mabye the oil crunch will have some effect, but all this compensating just puts a bandaid ontop of a bandaid.
When 1/4 of daily thought processes and energies with the average American worker are consumed by getting from point "A" to point "B", productivity suffers.
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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