eclipse23

Strait from the US census bureau. My two most common daily commutes are the commute into NYC and the commute into Newark. Now all you traffic complainers can SHUT UP if your not on this list . Did I mention my car has 42,000 miles?


Cities with longest average commutes

New York City 38 minutes
Chicago 33.1 minutes
San Francisco 29.6 minutes
Newark, N.J. 29.5 minutes
Oakland, Calif. 29.4 minutes
Miami 29.4 minutes
Philadelphia 29.2 minutes
Riverside, Calif. 29 minutes
Washington, D.C. 28.5 minutes
Los Angeles 28.1 minutes

Scooter

only 38 minutes to NYC??? jesus, they obviously don't know Long Island commuters

LA is only 28 minutes?? what about the famous rush hour traffic every day where all major freeways are packed for miles and miles????

AtlCl

At least in other cities you have options, like taking the subway instead. In Atlanta, you are simply screwed with how spread out this city is.

mantis23

travel smarter, not harder.

Pull_T

Same with Houston

AtlCl

Atlanta and Houston are pretty similar, except that Houston is flat and slightly more humid (never thought that was possible).

JasonT

Commutes from where? Where did they start to get these times?

Unless your an express bus, or car pool, it always took me about an hour to get into lower Manhattan from Staten island.

SlyTLS

I don't know who they polled for this but it definitely wasn't me...my commute by car is 1hr 30 mins (with normal traffic conditions) and by train is 2 hrs since 9/11 (it was 1 hr 15 mins prior.) By the way, my commute is from Westchester, NY to Jersey City, NJ.

Pull_T

Well, it's abviously some sort of average, so for every guy like you with an hour and a half commute, there's someone that walks 5 minutes to work.

Zapata

Yea that L.A. commute time is B.S. 30mins my ass. Majority of people live in orange country area like anahiem hills and it takes a good two hours to get into the city.

IntegraVT

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:sqnteek: Umm, yeah, who the heck are these people with sub-half hour NYC commutes?!

I can practically throw a coin out my window in Jersey and it'll land in Manhattan. My daily commute is 2 miles in distance, but about 30~40 minutes in duration. (And I consider myself lucky since I bypass the real traffic on the bridges and tunnels by taking a ferry...)

Chrisbert

I drive from Braselton to Roswell - 45 miles. It takes 60 - 90 minutes.

BSK181

i drive 32 miles from long island to just outside of manhattan
never less then 50 minutes and as much as 90 on wierd days
i wish 38 mts

gto2050

Hmmm... guess you don't care about my 18 mile, 22 minute commute down 287 to Mahwah, eh, Ern?

Casper98CL

ha.. my commute is 10 mins / 15 mins with traffic over the Tappen Zee bridge.. westchester to Rockland.. i was smart and stayed away from workin in the city!!!!

jimcol711

i used to take the train into NYC from peekskill, my cummute door to door was over 90 minutes...im glad i got away from that shit!!

limuas22

My commute isn't that bad...only 15 minutes, but my wife on the other hand is in the car for a little over a hour and she's only commuting 10 miles away!

moomaster_99

LA and the Bay Area have the No.1 and 2 worst traffic, respectively. That's all that needs to be said. Most people who work in silicon valley live about 1 hour away. The ones that commute into SF use BART or come from Marin ($$) and the peninsula. They probably don't mention that once you hit within 2 miles of downtown SF...it is gridlock and takes 20 minutes to get to your parking garage and then you have to walk another 10 minutes.

hotelniko14

i lived both in chicago and now LA, and LA is 10X worse

Chrisbert

Holy Cow, what road(s) does she use. I do I-85, Beaver Ruin, Holcombe Bridge and they don't suck as bad as 10 miles in an hour.

dajuice27

Chrisbert,

Holcombe Bridge road is easy, for now. Construction and growth will ruin that in another 3 years. My Mom works up that way, so whenI visit, I see the shit starting to pile up. Nice area though, lik eit.

LA has the worst fucking traffic I have seen - PERIOD!!!

SF Bay area, ain't much better, but they do have Mass Transit out to the suburbs.

NYC has got Mass Transit, LA has a joke!

I traveled from Culver City to Ontario - easy 42 miles to the satellite center and it takes 2.5 - 4 hours depending on the day, Friday being the worse day due to people trying to get the hell outta town. The 60, 210, 10 freeways are all backed up for miles and they run parallel to each other going West. Made me move to Ontario, just 2 exits away from work off the 10 freeway, can you believe 25 minutes to get to work!!!!!!!! Jogging or Riding my bike got me there faster!


Back here in DC, I have Mass Transit, so my commute is a smooth 22 minutes from doorstep to office desk. If I drive, its a good 45 minutes to go 7.3 miles - Go Figure???

StonedCL

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In the morning it will take me about 1 hour 30 min to get to 34th strret throught the lincoln.
At night when going to clubs 20 minutes tops!

StonedCL

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oh my commute to work is 5 miles about 15 min and i still have 42k on the CL!

bsomm22

I have a 60 mile drive to north jersey (kenilworth) that takes 1 hr 15 min. too bad i dont have a nice cl to drive there.

bnavarro

at 5:30 in the morning, i can get to manhattan in about 30 min. I work next to the 59th street bridge. 40 min to manhattan by train to penn , and then another 15-25 min on the subway to get to the same place. it's about 30 miles

JRock

I drove 40miles each way (around 45-50minutes each way) to classes four days a week for the last three semesters of college. The last two were in the CLS. My 13-month-old CLS has 30k on it. :P

KavexTrax

if I commute from home to Irvine (northern LA to Orange County or Southern LA) during the day, it has been at most 3.5 hours for 75 miles! MY ASS WAS HURTING after that.

At night, which I use to do very often from midnight, it takes me less than an hour easily along the same route

Riverside has no reason to be on that commute list, wtf?
That's just damn sad.