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The problem is people live 30 miles from work and come and go at the same time.
by serge2k 10y ago
The problem is people live 30 miles from work and come and go at the same time.
- TulliusCicero 10y ago> people live 30 miles from work Agreed, sprawl is an issue. > come and go at the same time. Yes, but at the same time, there are good reasons for why most people have roughly in sync schedules: it makes any kind of socialization much, much easier. Yeah, you can dodge traffic by leaving for work a few hours later than everyone else, but then hanging out with any of your friends or family will be painful or outright impossible. And it's particularly important for anyone with kids to have a schedule that roughly matches them being in school.
- akamaka 10y agoThe average American commute by car is about 12 miles. In the Washington DC area mentioned in the article, it's 9.1 miles. As this particular moment, a bike ride from Takoma Park to downtown DC is 41 minutes, versus 35 minutes by car.