Traffic Patterns

Besides the traditional and institutionalized 9 to 5 urban and suburban work day cycle, one of the stronger influences on the work day is the basic fear of the daily commute. Many workers prefer to structure their day around the heavy commute traffic periods, when all of the working world is set loose to circulate between work sites and homes. Most people aren't too interested in sitting in an enclosed steel box, stopping and going, surrounded by aggression and mutual suspicion, where a minor collision could mean anything from hours upon hours of navigating financial and medical bureaucratic systems to death.