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Friday, September 07, 2018

Interactive Map Of How Many Days Americans Waste Commuting Over A Lifetime

If you've ever sat in traffic doing wondering how much of your life is wasted commuting, or you've just taken a job across the country and want to know what you'll be facing on the freeways, look no further.

Using Census Bureau data for average daily round-trip commute times for almost 1,000 cities, the good folks over at Educated Driver have created a highly depressing interactive map.

Highlights: 

The average American worker spends 52.2 minutes a day commuting to and from work, or 4.35 hours a week.
This translates to an average of 408 days of one's life commuting - and more in large cities

While residents of Jersey City spend 580 days of their lives commuting, those working in North

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I learned conversational Spanish over the course of a year while commuting an hour each way in DC. Now I can order from a Mexican menu and ask where the bathroom is in Spanish. Yeah, it was all wasted time.