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The purpose is not to diminish time wasted by commuting. In many European cities and regions one does not commute for hours every day. For instance, my brother
by mkempe 12y ago
The purpose is not to diminish time wasted by commuting.
In many European cities and regions one does not commute for hours every day. For instance, my brother lives in a 2000 year-old city and walks to work -- it takes him 2 minutes. When I lived in London it took me 15-20 minutes to get to work, with the tube. In a Swiss city before that, 15 minutes driving. And for my job before that, 4 minutes biking.
- fetbaffe 12y agoHowever not the case in Göteborg.
- mkempe 12y agoThe Swedish average commute is under 25 minutes (excluding the top 5% who travel an hour or more). [1] My friends' commute in Stockholm includes the walk to drop off kids at the local school. Is Göteborg worse than the rest of the country? [1] http://jamda.ub.gu.se/handle/1/738 http://jamda.ub.gu.se/handle/1/738
- fetbaffe 12y agoIt's not hours that can be the case as in other countries, but I would not describe it as 2 minutes either. 25 minutes sounds reasonable. Of course it's depends how lucky you are. When I lived in Stockholm for a short while, I had an 50 minutes commute from the outer parts of Stockholm (still within city limits) to the city, first by buss then subway. In Göteborg, if you need to pass Göta älv (Göta river) in rush hour, good luck with that. It is the main bottleneck in Göteborg with only two bridges and one tunnel, all of the jammed. Sure buses have their own lane so that runs faster, but the nightmarish slow tram is just painful, half the speed of a subway.
- aestra 12y agoThe average for the US is a little over 25 minutes. http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-interactive-map.html http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-int...
- toomuchtodo 12y agoI commute ~1 hour each way 30 miles from a Chicago suburb to the loop. I envy my European counterparts.