--- title: Five Best: The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion description: The unlikely solution to clearing road congestion, standing desks aren't as great as they seem and more. canonical: https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-01T17:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:18.587Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The unlikely solution to clearing road congestion.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40449953/to-relieve-a-congested-downtown-this-city-had-a-solution-free-bus-passes) By Adele Peters in _Fast Company_ **2\.** [**Standing desks aren’t as great as they seem.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-standing-desk-isnt-going-to-help-you-lose-a-lot-of-weight/2017/11/17/3f287c90-ca50-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.08e5debdf6ac) By Rachel Rettner in _the Washington Post_ **3\.** [**Why your perception of wealth is off.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/why-you-feel-richer-or-poorer-than-you-really-are.html?utm%5Fcampaign=nym&%3Butm%5Fsource=tw&%3Butm%5Fmedium=s1) By Caroline Beaton in the _Science of Us_ **4\.** [**The secret to being happy at work isn’t working less- it’s caring less.**](https://qz.com/1048352/the-secret-to-office-happiness-isnt-working-less-its-caring-less/?curator=MediaREDEF) By Andrew Taggart in _Quartz_ **5\.** [**As politics becomes less civil, so does the internet.**](https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2017/8/7/16104902/offensive-political-rhetoric-comments-reddit?curator=TechREDEF) By Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner and Phillipa Gill in _Vox_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/"},"headline":"The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion","datePublished":"2017-12-01T17:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:18.587Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Transportation","Innovation","politics","Wealth","productivity","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5044794/the-unlikely-solution-to-clearing-road-congestion/","name":"The Unlikely Solution to Clearing Road Congestion"}}]}] ```