BIKE: commute times

[Patrick Goetz]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20050330-15255100-bc-us-workhours.xml

U.S. to-work trips more than 100 hours/yr.

WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) -- Americans spend more than 100 hours 
commuting to work each year, the U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday.

Based on data for 2003 that looked at how long Americans spend traveling 
to work one-way, New Yorkers spend the most time commuting, about 30.4 
minutes on average.

New York is followed by Maryland (30.2 minutes), New Jersey (28.5 
minutes), Illinois (27 minutes), and California (26.5 minutes). Among 
those states, the highest percentages of workers commuting 90 or more 
minutes to their job were found in New York (4.3 percent), New Jersey (4 
percent), and Maryland (3.2 percent).

Big cities with the highest commute times included New York (38.3 
minutes); Chicago (33.2 minutes); Newark, N.J. (31.5 minutes); 
Riverside, Calif. (31.2 minutes); Philadelphia (29.4 minutes); and Los 
Angeles (29 minutes).

States with some of the lowest average commute times included South 
Dakota (15.2 minutes), North Dakota (15.4 minutes), Nebraska (16.5 
minutes) and Montana (16.9 minutes).

For the nation overall, the average daily commute was about 24.3 minutes 
during 2003.

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