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Curious where this number comes from:

> It’s sad. The typical car LA or SF commuter spends more than 60 hours each year stuck in traffic.

It seems low, it would be an estimate of just over one hour per week, which would be like 10 minutes each morning and evening.

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The average commute in the US is something like 23 min, so the average commute in LA or SF should theoretically be a bit higher. I agree that 10 min seems incredibly low.

Whether 10 minutes is a realistic number depends heavily on your definition of stuck in traffic. You can choose anything from "absolute standstill" to "slower than one would go on an empty road".

For a typical definition, those 23 minutes will not all be spent stuck in traffic.

Good catch, I'll fact check that number.

It should be closer to 2h per day off the cuff, I'm sure you can find better sources than my memory.

At that rate, though, you save something closer to a hundred hours a year, or more than two work weeks.

According to the US census bureau, 11.9 percent of county commuters had a drive of 60 minutes or more, compared with 8.1 percent nationally. The average commute time for Los Angeles County residents in 2011 was 29.4 minutes, above the national average of 25.5 minutes.

Maybe it's not the whole time commuting, but the time added due to rush hour traffic?

Exactly, comes from this Urban Mobility Report linked in the Medium post: http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...

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