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TBideon:
Judging by your time and 60+ bus/hr estimates, I'd guess you live at..... hmmmm.... clark/division?
Clark/dickens here and i mean literally on it
NorthAndre:
Michigan Avenue and Oak. Close! Though I'm looking at Wells and Division in a new building...which I'll be taking the red line since my office is moving a few blocks south near Jackson.
You're in a great area btw. Tons of great places along Clark and right by the zoo / lake
noozer:
Even American Drivers Like Mass Transit More Than They Think
ERIC JAFFE9:31 AM ET
In recent years, transportation experts have found that if drivers get a free taste of mass transit, many of them find they actually want a bit more. The approach has worked, albeit on a limited trial basis, in developed cities around the world: from Kyoto to Leeds to greater Copenhagen. Transit ridership in Châteauroux jumped after the mayor made the system free. Swedish commuters who rode free transit for a month found themselves more satisfied with it than they thought they'd be.
Now we can even add American drivers to the mix. In an upcoming issue of the journal Transport Policy, a research duo reports that nearly 30 percent of regular car commuters in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, gave up their full-time parking permits immediately after a brief free-transit trial, with most downgrading to an occasional permit and a few making a full switch to transit. About 25 percent had stuck with the change six months later.
The test, done by Maya Abou-Zeid of the American University of Beirut and Moshe Ben-Akiva of M.I.T., was conducted with M.I.T. employees in the fall of 2008. Sixty-seven university workers, all with full-time parking permits, agreed to commute by transit for a few days during one trial week and complete follow-up surveys. The participants were generally quite set in their driving ways: 47-years-old and part of a two-car household, on average, with eight never having ridden transit to work.
Read more at: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/12/even-american-drivers-mass-transit-more-they-think/4142/#
Mendo:
For 5 years, I drove 1+ hour each way from the Canton/Massillon area to Solon. I moved downtown earlier this year, so it's about 30 minutes to Solon now.
noozer:
Columbus commuters top state in time stuck in traffic
By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday February 5, 2013 2:44 PM
Columbus-area commuters lead the state in the amount of time, and expense, spent crawling in backed-up traffic.
The typical rush-hour area commuter spent an extra 40 hours, and about $60 on extra fuel, on the road due to traffic congestion in 2011, according to an annual study by Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
Those figures gave Columbus commuters the unwanted distinction of spending more time sitting in traffic than in any of Ohio’s major urban areas. Cincinnatians spent 37 hours sitting in traffic; Cleveland residents wasted 31 hours.
The 40 unwanted hours in traffic jams placed Columbus-area commuting delays two hours above the national average and 25th among 101 urban areas in Texas A&M’s Urban Mobility Report. Columbus ranks as the 36th-largest metro area in the report as calculated by the researchers.
Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/05/commute-times-study.html
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