A large number of tech workers go in only 3 days a week, which would help congestion if it wasn’t all the same 3 days for everyone.

I spent more money on a house next to schools so I wouldn’t need to be a part of the rush hour commute, except now we have a summer camp to go to in the next town over, well at least it’s summer and school traffic is gone.

People say “not all jobs” but a great deal of them certainly can be remote. I think we all remember 2020 when hourly workers still had to show up to their job, office workers didn’t and this was sufficient to clear all the roads and even affect local air quality.

A large fraction of jobs that can't be done remotely are shift work where shifts are distributed all around the day.

The biggest traffic determinant in my city’s (Brisbane, Australia) rush hour is school children by far

I think it’s the fact school buses are rare in Australia and the doubling (or often tripling due to low co-ed rates here) of the commutes for parents dropping them off

I have no children

School not on? My commute is 7-10 minutes in rush hour. School on? 25-35 minutes in rush hour

In saying this I know there are other confounding variables here (eg location or but parents aligning their holidays with their children’s), but I feel like there should be some direct consultation between our City Council and Schools as it directly impacts all residents of the city