extreme commuting

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt  · 28 Jul 2008  · 512pp  · 165,704 words

space, commute times have also been expanding. One of the fastest-growing categories in the last “commuting census” in the United States was that of “extreme commuters,” people who spend upward of two hours a day in traffic (moving or otherwise). Many of these are people pushed farther out by higher home

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities

by Alain Bertaud  · 9 Nov 2018  · 769pp  · 169,096 words

, Beijing, China, 2012. Figure 5.7 Door-to-door commuting time from suburb to downtown New York (case study, no statistical significance). Figure 5.8 Extreme commuting in Gauteng (South Africa) case study. Source: “National Development Plan Vision 2030,” President’s National Planning Commission, South Africa, 2011. Figure 5.9 Average commuting

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hour, instead of 2.5 hours. Access to a moped would allow her to gain 3 hours a day of disposable time! Figure 5.8 Extreme commuting in Gauteng (South Africa) case study. Source: “National Development Plan Vision 2030,” President’s National Planning Commission, South Africa, 2011. For a given home and

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne  · 5 Sep 2007  · 458pp  · 134,028 words

double the number from ten years before. Extreme Commuting is enough of a phenomenon that in the spring of 2006, Midas Muffler held a contest to reward America’s Longest Commuter. Attracting thousands of

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; “Extreme Commuting,” BusinessWeek Online, February 21, 2005; and Debbie Howlett and Paul Overberg, “Think Your Commute Is Tough?,” USA Today, November 29, 2004. As of March 2007,

Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work

by Iain Gately  · 6 Nov 2014  · 352pp  · 104,411 words

can take all day. More meat is the reward for more travel. The hunter’s counterpart in the world of commuting is the so-called ‘extreme commuter’, who travels either great distances or for many hours to get to work each day. In America, where average trips are short, the Census Bureau

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defines ‘extreme commuting’ as more than ninety minutes each way and reckoned that 2.5 per cent of Americans fell into that category in 2012. The media has

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crowned various champions of the genre – including Dave Givens, who won Midas Muffler’s*2 2006 extreme commuting title by spending an average of seven hours travelling to and from his home in Mariposa, California, to his work in San Jose in Silicon

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and further afield. In a 2014 feature on extreme commuting, the BBC identified a number of Britons who travelled even further than Givens, including Stuart Williams, an IT project manager, who covers 218 miles each

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334 Collins, Wilkie Basil 52 commuting (car) see cars commuting (cycling) see cycling commuting (rail) comic representation of 137 commuter etiquette 72–3, 82, 249 extreme commuting 233–4 in America 66–80 in France 81–7 in Germany 80, 86–7 in Japan 177–84 in the 1950s 136 in Victorian

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe  · 8 Sep 2011  · 428pp  · 134,832 words

work alone. Thanks to congestion, the average commute in the United States is now 51 minutes a day, and 3.5 million Americans qualify as extreme commuters, spending three hours or more getting to and from work. Economists have actually managed to quantify the absurdity of this situation. According to the Texas

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 15 Jun 2020  · 362pp  · 97,288 words

, but I feel the pull of this faraway place more each day. Nowadays, when I make this trip, my mind wanders through the possibilities of extreme commutes powered by automation. Could I live in the country and work in the city? I could be up before dawn and into the car, drifting

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

by Leigh Gallagher  · 26 Jun 2013  · 296pp  · 76,284 words

, 187 Community Growth, Crisis and Challenge (film), 39 Commuting, 94–99 average time spent, 94 commuting paradox, 98 costs of, 5–6, 21, 99–101 extreme commutes, 94–97 longer distances, and housing boom, 68–69, 71, 74–76, 104 necessity and suburbs, 5, 13, 46 physical/mental problems related to, 97

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

by Arianna Huffington  · 7 Sep 2010  · 300pp  · 78,475 words

overpriced cities they work in. Doing so has meant ever-longer commutes. By the year 2000, each day, 3.5 million Americans headed out on “extreme commutes,” defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as travel times to and from work of three hours or more each day.50 That is twice

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

by Richard Florida  · 28 Jun 2009  · 325pp  · 73,035 words

do it anyway. According to a 2007 report, about one in six American workers commutes more than forty-five minutes to and from work, and extreme commuters—those who travel at least ninety minutes each way—are the fastest growing category.4 Why would people do this to themselves? The obvious answer

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

in April 2007 in The New Yorker. “The number of commuters who travel ninety minutes or more each way—known to the Census Bureau as ‘extreme commuters’—has reached 3.5 million, almost double the number in 1990. They’re the fastest-growing category, the vanguard in a land of stagnant wages

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

by Justin McGuirk  · 15 Feb 2014  · 246pp  · 76,561 words