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[quote=Anonymous]I think one reason it feels worse is that people have less patience with commuting and are resentful of the time spent in the car so they drive more aggressively and in many cases more dangerously. I see a lot more behavior like:

- moving into an oncoming lane to bypass left turn traffic

- refusing to zipper merge or to allow incoming traffic to merge from highway entrances even when doing so would be more efficient for everyone

- dangerous weaving through highway traffic at high speeds

etc.

This leads to more crashes as well as just a general sense of frustration and lawlessness. Capacity is still not at pre-Covid levels so the actual congestion is not as bad as it was pre-Covid. But I think so many people have limited tolerance for it and wish they were back at home working that it's really diminished the quality of driving and safety (and this was not an area known for great driving pre-Covid either so a decline is truly alarming).

I agree RTO for it's own sake is silly but at this point I just don't want to die in a fiery car crash commuting. We actually moved to make metro and train commutes more convenient and while it takes longer than a driving commute would it's annoying from a finance perspective because we already pay for the cars so we're not saving a ton of money (though we may try to go down to one car soon). But it's safer and less stressful. We can read or scroll during commutes. And there is something relieving about just giving in to process -- if the train is late then I'm late and that's my excuse and if you have a problem with it then I could be at my desk working at 7:30am if I WFO.

Driving sucks.[/quote]

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