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40 miles is a pretty long commute. A modern city shouldn't be optimized to make that experience the norm. Most trips are much shorter.

• erik_seaberg 7y ago
  I moved to the bay area in 2006. Between then and now, each employer I've had was at least 30 miles away from the next.
  • mayneack 7y ago
    That makes you quite an outlier. 95% of trips are < 5 miles https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips I don't think we should optimize our cities for that.
    • erik_seaberg 7y ago
      They also report that under 17% of trips are for work, which is surprisingly low and seems like too much noise to learn much about the distribution of peak hour commuting distances. If I had a five mile commute, I would use surface streets. Congested highways are full of people going far enough in roughly that direction that even the congestion plus the first/last mile is faster than countless stoplights on the direct route.