Compared to pre-pandemic travel patterns in January 2020, the typical worker in the Atlanta region could reach 82 percent more jobs; a worker in the Seattle area, 62 percent more jobs; in Houston, 50 percent more; and Minneapolis, 42 percent more.
Improvement in the auto network was greatest in cities previously most burdened with congestion. The 2021 data shows that morning commuters in Los Angeles and San Francisco could drive to more than twice as many jobs in the same amount of time as they could the previous January, prior to the pandemic.
If we can take advantage of this and provide real alternatives to driving alone, we can keep congestion solved in our lifetime without freeway expansion.
Overall, by auto, typical commuters can reach 45 million jobs within 30 minutes in 2021, a number equal to 54% of the jobs in the surveyed metropolitan areas, an increase of more than 50% compared to the 2019 figure.
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