All right.

Up we go.

Hey, it's Andrew Meriwether.

And this morning I'm doing a ride along with my wife, Larkin, as she heads out on her daily commute to work.

Got a little snow in the car, with a brush out.

It doesn't like there's any ice, so we should need the scraper.

Like hundreds of thousands of her fellow Chicagoans, each morning she commutes to her job.

In her case, it's a reverse commute, out to the suburbs.

And also like the majority of Chicago, she does so by car and not public transportation.

So my car takes me about 45 minutes, maybe 50 minutes to get home, the traffic's a little bit worse.

On public transit, it would take me a little over an hour.

2020 census data shows that around 59% of folks living in the city commute by vehicle.

And that number is over 86% for suburbanites. All of which is to say, we spend

a lot of time in cars. See this guy? What are you doing? Oh my gosh. Now it's chaos. People are

driving in the right lane that's not a lane. And that means we have opinions about traffic.

A lot of opinions.

We just went through one of the most annoying lights on my drive.

I don't understand it at all.

There's two lights right next to each other, one after the other.

So sometimes you'll wait at the first one.

You can see the other one in front is green the whole time.

And then right when your light turns green, the other one will turn red.

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