Thanks for the mention. Interesting dynamic.
My thought on this, was that most schools were neighborhood affairs. I didn’t expect to see freeways impacted this much.
While your drive is 100 miles, I’m sure a lot of other folks are driving less, with the same principle in mind.
Then there are the community colleges and universities in the region too.
We’re probably talking about hundreds of thousands of people right there.
My son commutes home from college on the weekends too so that is true. People can’t afford to live near their schools often and they commute to college from their parents’ homes.