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A Very Brief History of Why Americans Hate Their Commutes

2 pointsby gkuanover 11 years ago

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VLMover 11 years ago
&quot;travel to and from work constitutes ... 19 percent of person-miles.&quot;<p>I find that incredibly hard to believe, like the rest of the article is a parody around it, or its an honest typo (perhaps 89 percent?)<p>It would imply everyone living in my suburban city of about 100K people drives 160 miles, per day, to go shopping and to restaurants or something. Just not seeing it. I got a new car around Halloween, and I&#x27;ve only driven a couple hundred non-commute miles since then despite a couple thousand commute miles. I&#x27;m surprised I&#x27;ve driven that many non-commute miles.