Politics Done Right on KPFT - Time for employers to pay for time lost in traffic jams

[egbertowillies]

Today I will discuss traffic jams. You might be asking, what do traffic jams have to do with Politics Done Right? Well traffic jams are caused by politics done very wrong. After seeing traffic jams in Panamá City, Panamá this week I really started thinking about its real causes. Very few will discuss it in the terms we are discussing. It is a quality of life issue. It is a wage theft issue.
http://politicsdoneright.com/2015/12/its-time-for-businesses-to-pay-employees-for-time-lost-in-systemic-traffic-jams/
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[oldandhappy]

1. Maybe if traffic jams are the issue, we should fix the traffic jams.

Maybe we need more lanes of traffic or more public transport or urban trains or trolleys or ?? I agree that traffic jams are wage theft. But the employers do not cause the traffic jams. Traffic jams are caused by bad urban planning and weather and drivers under the influence and distractions which cause accidents.

[DarthDem]

2. You're Right . . .

. . . but I think the idea is that if corporate employers have to pay for them, they might actually divert some resources toward addressing the underlying problems that cause them.

Merry Christmas, DU!

[Live and Learn]

4. Actually, a lot of traffic jams could be alleviated by employers using alternate work schedules and

telecommuting.

[lame54]

9. and cops giving tickets on the freeway

[msongs]

3. time for politicians to pay for sleep time since we get tired from working nt

[Live and Learn]

5. That makes absolutely no sense at all. nt

[GGJohn]

7. I think that was the point. eom.

[Turbineguy]

6. And then pass the bill on to

the GOP.

[JonathanRackham]

8. KPFT now leading cause of traffic jams?

Seriously, sounds like a cool employeer.

[Igel]

10. Traffic jams are of four types.

And I may add more.

1. Road construction, trains and goofball traffic flow patterns. Ultimately, this is government.

2. Traffic accidents.

3. Local, predictable, and therefore often avoidable ones, caused by things like schools where too many students all arrive at the same time.

4. Too many people who don't want to live near where they work.

There's a transient kind of congestion, as well: Recently north of Houston a large employer built its campus and attracted a lot of ancillary employers. It'll take a while for the roads to accommodate the new traffic load. Of course, I get stuck in this traffic daily. The problem isn't just the new jobs, it's that a lot of people commute 20 miles to get to work because they like living where they used to or in the city proper. They could easily live within a few miles of their job site, but choose not to--it's not the employers' fault, it's the employees'. A lot of little choices lead to one large "emergent" choice--"We heart traffic jams." They could also find rendezvous sites to car pool. But that's degrading and humiliating. My wife and I work in the same area, we carpool, and people find that strange--sometimes, gasp, one of us has to wait 30 minutes or more for the other to finish up work.