Census Bureau Survey: More Workers Commuting 90 minutes or more

[Sandpiper]

It's a win-win for Oil Companies, gas is headed toward $3.00 a gallon, and workers' commutes are getting longer.


PHILADELPHIA - To the list of extreme sports, add extreme commuting: those who travel 90 minutes or more on the trek to work.

Nationally, only 2 percent of workers log those kind of one-way commuting times, but their numbers are growing, according to a 2003 Census Bureau survey released Wednesday.

In New York City and Baltimore, 5.6 percent of commuters spent 90 minutes or more on the trip into work; elsewhere, 5 percent of commuters in Riverside, Calif., and 3 percent of commuters in Philadelphia and Los Angeles spent an hour-and-a-half on the one-way commute.

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[madinmaryland]

1. My commute used to by 2 hrs 20mins

Commuted from Connecticut to lower Manhattan. All of it was public transportation. Now that I am in DC area, it is only 12 minutes.

[slor]

2. With oil prices rising...

things are going to change fast.