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2007/5/28-31 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Bicycle] UID:46774 Activity:kinda low
5/28    Extreme commuters travel 50-100 miles EACH way to/from work, and
        the trend is increasing 5X as fast as the general growth in
        commuting. Asked if it's worth sacraficing 2-4 extra hours a
        day of your life for your piece of the AMERICAN DREAM, where there's
        lots of room, lots of space, the answer is YES.
        http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/24/sunday/main2849455.shtml
        \_ I commuted 50 miles each way for a year, it was hell.  Soul crushing
           hell.  Now I work close enough that I can bike to work in almost
           the exact same time as driving would take.  Never again.
        \_ in other news, most Americans identify Rwanda as "a kind of fruit"
           \_ in other news, most Americans still prefer big McMansion
              homes and GWB over bike ride and Al Gore. You Californians
              are very much out of touch with core American values.
              \_ Except Bush didn't get a majority over Gore and his approval
                 ratings always suck.
              \_ "core American values" change all the time.  The suburb
                 as we know it has basically existed for only 50 years,
                 less than that in most places.  Americans changed before,
                 and they'll change again.  (In fact, are changing.)  -tom
              \_ if GWB's policy reflect core American Value, he would of
                 instated the draft and expect popular support.
              \_ Made up phrases like "core American values" make me laugh.
                 No such thing. Get a clue.
        \_ It's funny to me that you read the same article as me and got
           a 180 degree opposite conclusion from it.
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"I've got good friends in Metro Traffic like Lisa Baden, and I call in if I hear of traffic accidents and such. So instead of just being the victim of traffic, I'm actively participating with the traffic." Commuter Evan Slaughenhaupt (CBS) Carmen Delgado begins her work day when the rest of us are sound asleep at 3:00 am sharp. "I'm looking at the clock all the time," she told CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Nancy Cordes. "Okay, I have another 15 minutes for breakfast, then exactly at four o'clock I leave through the door, hop in my car and drive to the bus stop. And why is it so important for her to get the first spot on the bus? "Because I'm able to dash out when it pulls into Port Authority," she said, laughing. Like 140 million other Americans, delgado is commuting to work. That's nearly 100 miles each way more than four hours a day in commuting. In fact, so many people now commute more than an hour-and-a-half to work, the Census Bureau has given them a new name: Extreme commuters. "It's amazing the number of people who are commuting those distances today," said Alan Pisarski, author of a government report. more than 90 minutes a day, about ten million more than 60 minutes." And even though his journey will take him nowhere near downtown Washington, DC, it's often stop-and-go the whole way. On a "good" day, Slaughenhaupt said he can be in work at about eight o'clock that's having left his house at 6:00 or 6:30 am He showed us what he described as a typical morning's traffic: bogged down. "And we're gonna stay like this, bogged down for the most part, until we get to Interstate 66 west," he said. "This bog down will pretty much continue pretty sure up into Maryland. And this to me demonstrates what you get when growth is out of control." "Do you enjoy the commute or do you endure the commute?" "By that I mean I've got satellite radio here, got a police/fire scanner, and I've got good friends in Metro Traffic like Lisa Baden, and I call in if I hear of traffic accidents and such. So instead of just being the victim of traffic, I'm actively participating with the traffic." Evan called into Lisa's traffic hotline, letting her know of a fender bender on the Beltway and a closed lane on I-66 West, contributing to a backup all the way to Robinson's Terminal. Evan says his traffic-watching hobby helps beat the boredom of a solo commute. He's got plenty of company: 9 out of 10 drivers now make the trip to work alone. These long-distance commutes seem necessarily a very solitary endeavor. "What are the odds that there's somebody where you are going, when you're going?" We don't have, you know, somebody blowing the whistle at the factory and 5,000 people show up." Which may help explain why today one in ten Americans car-pool. A quarter of a century ago, that figure was one in five. live in the suburbs, work downtown, that's not where the growth is," Pisarski said. "The growth is in living in the suburbs and working in some other suburb." In fact, half of all American workers now both live in the suburbs and work in the suburbs. "The high cost of housing is pushing people out toward the edges of the metropolitan areas in search of some kind of housing that they'd like to have," said Pisarksi. "And as jobs move out to the suburbs to be closer to the workers, the workers leapfrog and go farther out." Of course, for drivers like Evan Slaughenhaupt, that just means more potential traffic jams. Statistics show that the average commuter loses 47 hours a year to traffic congestion. But other cities are almost as bad: Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston top the list. And these longer commutes can have consequences large and small.