Having some trouble swallowing this paragraph:
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The richest metropolitan areas in the US are San José, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Washington, Houston, New York, Portland, Hartford and Salt Lake City. Areas with relatively few urban highways are overrepresented in that list, with Houston being the one big exception.
&quot;<p>When I need to get anywhere in New York, most of the time I am better off grabbing the west side highway or the FDR rather than going through the grid and hitting traffic lights and gridlock constantly. So that&#x27;s two highways, one on either side of a 2.3 mile wide (at most) island and then 95 crosses it at the top.<p>San Francisco similarly has elevated 280 and 80, and 101 mostly on the ground with some lights slowing it. At least SF is much bigger than Manahattan for similar amount of highways to help his point.<p>I get the feeling he just isn&#x27;t from the US and doesn&#x27;t know anything about our cities, though, so that paragraph is just way off.