So the difference between the 10th best and the 10th worst is only 6 minutes? And only 14 minutes from top to bottom of the list?
Looks like there isn’t really much difference among the major cities.
When did Long Island,NY become a city?
It is also 100 miles long-——how could they figure commute time?
Dreadful “study”.
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Atlanta at 29 minutes is a joke. It used to take me 1 hour and if it rained 1.5 hours in the evening. That’s why there is so much road rage in Atlanta. Friday is really bad.
You can eliminate commute time by doing work in your home office and submitting it via e-mail to your boss.
Unless you have to do demanding physical work on site, commuting to work will eventually becoming a thing of the past.
I had a great job with a short commute. And then a vengeful SOB of a boss reassigned me to a different position in another city. I went from a 10 mile (ea way) commute to a 60 mile (ea way) commute. Over the worst route in Washington state.
I would leave before 05:00 and it would still take me on average 35 minutes each morning. The afternoons were pure hell with an average commute time of 2 hours. If there was an accident that time could easily stretch out to 5-6 hours because there was only one route north-south.
My sympathies to commuters everywhere!
I survived 2 and a half years of that duty before an ultimatum - and another change of bosses - saved me.
25mins one wayL.A. not high on the list, less than 30 mins? I guess the homeless who work their own street corners lowered the curve?
Where is Houston? Takes an hour to get downtown on a good day.
Atlanta Georgia has got to be in the 3 top worst?
The average is misleading because the data are going to be skewed. The median gives you a better sense of commute times if you are going to break it down by each state.
I recall reading somewhere that the average speed on freeways in Los Angeles in about 1970 was about 65 mph and by about 1990, it had dropped to about 45 to 50 mph. Wonder if anyone here got to enjoy that kind of a change over those years and what it must be like nowadays?
Who the hell commutes less than one hour ?
This is all bullcrap
Thrn if you’re in sales the miles REALLY go up
Los Angeles does not make the list because most Angelenos live not hugely far from work in and around L.A; much of the work force for Los Angeles does not start-out from Los Angeles, but areas outside of Los Angeles both near and far.
For instance all the figures are averages and the figures for San Bernardino and Riverside have higher averages than they would otherwise, because although they are 60-70 miles east of L.A. many of the folks there commute into a L.A. and places near to L.A.
It would be more accurate if the commute times for places like L.A. were figured not just on the commute times of the residents thereof but also on the commute times of the workers going to and from a place for work, no matter where there commute starts from. It is unlikely that residents within San Bernardino or Riverside have commute times as high as the averages for those locations, for commuters commuter within those locations. The average is as high as reported for those locations due to the numbers of residents there commuting for an hour or more to L.A. and places near-around L.A. Those times would be telling a more truthful picture if they were part of the average commute time for L.A. (yes there are also other distant locations that residents of the “Inland Empire” - San Bernardino and Riverside commute to every day).
Down on the MS Gulf coast, my last transit time was about 22 minutes for a 17 mile trip on surface roads - took about the same to use the interstate but added 4 miles to the trip - that was the afternoon rush hour route.