BIKE: commute times

[kristen theiler]

Any idea if this just accounts for those driving
automobiles, or if commute time on trains, buses, etc
are included?
--- Patrick Goetz <pgoetz> wrote:
>
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.
> 
> Copyright 2005 by United Press International
> 
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