It is certainly not for the total city's benefit and well-being, because they will wreck the residential and commercial neighborhoods, decrease property values and lower city tax rolls in the area. Everyone knows that roads drive development. So, the more roads we build out of the city, the more people will go out of the the city. The more we do for commuters, the more people will commute. Show me the city that has solved its traffic problems by building more roads.
More roads beget more cars and more subdivisions.
The commuters have made their choice and should live with the consequences.