Build the roads and the jobs follow. Tommy Thompson

The quotation isn't quite right; it's over simplistic.

But it reflects a reality that economic growth -- jobs -- depends on there being available transport for goods and people.

Time spent on gridlocked streets, or waiting for buses, or sitting in stopped subway cars is time wasted. Goods trapped in railway cars shunted to the side are goods doing no one any good.

Gridlock hurts.