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[–] 182 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Marchetti intended the constant to be 1 hour round trip, so a half-hour commute one-way. It's an important distinction, since here in Atlanta the exurban commuter is clocking in at 1.5 hours or more into the city, well outside of what is considered tolerable. Multiply that by a million and you get some irritated people.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is housing that expensive in Atlanta?

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Its traffic is notoriously bad, so you don't have to live far away to deal with a long commute.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That’s disgusting, and I now feel bad for Atlanta.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    23 miles door to door for me. Can take as little as a half hour (zero traffic)... Or as much as an hour 20. And good luck predicting exactly how bad it will be at any given day/time!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    that was my experience when I lived in Minneapolis. when there was zero traffic and in the summer, you could get from any place in town to any other place in between 15-20 minutes. snarled traffic was rare because there were so many additional terrestrial roads to take the burnt.

    Contrast that with living in Philly, and we have a highway (676) that is so jammed all the time that the exits are measured on signage in fractions.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We have a lot of sprawl here and the reasons are many. Just like Dallas and LA, we have a ton of road infrastructure and zoning laws that eat up a lot of land. We also don't have any natural barriers, like an ocean or a mountain range, to limit our expansion. Just to keep building and add another lane. Thanks for asking.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Also in the greater Atlanta and can confirm. My job thankfully has me work from home as much as I can (I also travel a lot, which requires getting a vehicle from the office). But it's still a nightmare every time I do have to go in.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I still don't think that this could be called a constant when you've got folks like myself who live in a major city, 8 miles away from our workplaces, and still see 2 hour total commutes per day.

    We should strip the inheritance if anyone who is related to folks who demolished the streetcar system.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You must be biking really slowly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    that's all by bus, really. I live at the top of a hill that used to be used as a qualifier in a professional bicycling circuit. I tried getting up it on pedal power, it's just too much.

    I got an eBike recently though, it really does make that hill a breeze.

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