Kind of a click-baity title, as even the article acknowledges:<p>> <i>Those trade-offs aren’t just about commuting time. Places with short commutes are also often places with other desirable characteristics: restaurants, nightlife and convenience, both in terms of getting to other places in and around the city and of getting people from other parts of the city to come to your neighborhood.</i><p>So no, we're not paying $56 a month to trim a minute off; we're paying to be near more interesting things. (I think my commute actually got longer since we moved from an express stop to a local.)