I think people may be overlooking developments in the last 20 years. Bart does a reasonably good job getting people from the suburbs and exurbs into dense work areas, which I think is what it was meant to do. People drive cars from spacious places to a centralized parking lot, then get on bart and go to downtown San Francisco, Berkeley, or Oakland.
Perhaps the reversal of the standard commute is a relatively new and somewhat unusual phenomenon? I'm not trying to say it is, just posing the question... is this happening to the same extent in New York, London, Paris, or Chigaco (ie., people flipping the old commute pattern on its head by living in dense areas and commuting to work in spread out areas)? It could be that SiliValley is dealing with a relatively new and unique problem here.
In New York, I get the feeling that they commuters go from high density housing to high density job areas. In LA, they go from low density housing to low density job areas (though I gather this is changing and that LA is building much higher density areas now). In Chicago... I'm speculating, but I get the impression it's still commute from low density housing to high density work areas... in this case, it just might not make sense to compare the bay area to these other areas.
Perhaps the reversal of the standard commute is a relatively new and somewhat unusual phenomenon? I'm not trying to say it is, just posing the question... is this happening to the same extent in New York, London, Paris, or Chigaco (ie., people flipping the old commute pattern on its head by living in dense areas and commuting to work in spread out areas)? It could be that SiliValley is dealing with a relatively new and unique problem here.
In New York, I get the feeling that they commuters go from high density housing to high density job areas. In LA, they go from low density housing to low density job areas (though I gather this is changing and that LA is building much higher density areas now). In Chicago... I'm speculating, but I get the impression it's still commute from low density housing to high density work areas... in this case, it just might not make sense to compare the bay area to these other areas.