A Growing number of people in the U.S. are becoming 'super-commuters'

A growing number of people are traveling really long distances to work.

Researchers call them “super-commuters.” Many of them travel hundreds of miles from their homes to work. They take a combination of cars, planes, trains and buses to get from home to the office.

New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation reports from 2002 to 2009 the number of super-commuters grew in eight of the 10 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. They grew in the Philadelphia area by more than 50 percent during that period.

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5 comments on “A Growing number of people in the U.S. are becoming 'super-commuters'

  1. Archer_of_the_Forest says:

    I commute exactly 24 feet from the rectory to the church building.

  2. clarin says:

    #1 – reminds me of the story I read (in Stott, I believe in preaching) of the minister who boasted he could work out his sermons in the time it took to walk from manse to church. So the elders got him a house 5 miles away.

  3. Archer_of_the_Forest says:

    I have one about that good. I forgot to print my sermon on Sunday, and I realized it as we were processing in. I scooted out the back way, printed my sermon, and was back in the Church before they had finished singing the Gloria. No one ever knew…

  4. Bookworm(God keep Snarkster) says:

    You guys are giving away all the trade secrets… 🙂

  5. Katherine says:

    My husband commuted between the US and Switzerland for ten years.