Cities with the Worst Commutes in America

[Max Rockatansky]

Not really a good list in terms of data. 1-7 beat out the usual city commute suspects?

You have a lot of Los Angeles and Bay Area commutes on that list which really shouldn't be a huge surprise.  Tracy is infamous for basically being a bedroom community for commuters to Oakland and San Francisco.  In that context it doesn't surprise me to see any of those cities so high up but it certainly doesn't paint the correct picture as to why those commutes are so long.

A better measure would be minutes/mile.

This would be a decent data measurement

That would sure skyrocket smaller more densely cities like Miami, San Francisco, and New York up the list. 

[jakeroot]

Not really a good list in terms of data. 1-7 beat out the usual city commute suspects?

You have a lot of Los Angeles and Bay Area commutes on that list which really shouldn't be a huge surprise.  Tracy is infamous for basically being a bedroom community for commuters to Oakland and San Francisco.  In that context it doesn't surprise me to see any of those cities so high up but it certainly doesn't paint the correct picture as to why those commutes are so long.

A better measure would be minutes/mile.

This would be a decent data measurement

That would sure skyrocket smaller more densely cities like Miami, San Francisco, and New York up the list.

But that's where they should be. No one is surprised that Tracy residents have crappy commutes. They're an hour+ from San Francisco without congestion (ha!). People might be surprised to learn that Northgate, a neighborhood only about 8 miles from Downtown Seattle, can easily be a 30-40 minute drive between the two. But it's the same story with many other small cities around the Seattle metro. They're all pretty close, but all have equally crappy drives. Rather than litter these lists with cities that all equally have crappy commutes because they all are heading to the same area, they should group them together so you can get a better idea for the metros with worst commutes (which is what most lists are of, I believe).

[ET21]

Not really a good list in terms of data. 1-7 beat out the usual city commute suspects?

You have a lot of Los Angeles and Bay Area commutes on that list which really shouldn't be a huge surprise.  Tracy is infamous for basically being a bedroom community for commuters to Oakland and San Francisco.  In that context it doesn't surprise me to see any of those cities so high up but it certainly doesn't paint the correct picture as to why those commutes are so long.

A better measure would be minutes/mile.

This would be a decent data measurement

That would sure skyrocket smaller more densely cities like Miami, San Francisco, and New York up the list.

It makes more sense than seeing some random city called Tracy CA beat out cities like Miami, NYC, Chicago, and LA which are known for long commute times