They are trying hard to make you not notice you’re spending a week of your life driving each year.
I’m actually amazed it isn’t higher. That would imply the average commute is less than 15min each way.
About 26 minutes each way according to my math, but that’s still a great commute. My commute by mass transit was three times as long.
In my experience, there are three common sorts of commute:
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Fast by car.
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Slow by car.
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Slow by mass transit.
I guess type 2 commutes aren’t common in Canada, so they don’t bring down the average?
Depends on city. Me driving from outer metro to Vancouver is 1:30 due to traffic. Taking the bus is 2 hours because of walking time where bus route doesn’t fully service area. Would probably be equal with full service.
For me, that’s a small enough difference that I’d be fine with taking the bus even if it’s a longer commute time, because I can zone out/nap/read/whatever on the bus, but not if I’m driving
it’s 111 hours driving just TO work. it’s at least that much again to get home (more, probably, due to running errands and such on the way home).
111 hours is the average commute in Toronto
Ive started walking to work in june as part of an activity challenge at work and even now, I havent touched my car as much. Thankfully my walk is only a half hour which is nice. Im able to read on my phone and Id say about 95% of it I can walk on sidewalks. This might change come winter but its better than never I suppose
allow me to evangelize noise cancelling headphones: at this point they can likely be found for astoundingly cheap and they are good enough that the cheapo ones i got feel like magic, turn on ANC mode and it’s like you put in proper construction site earplugs except you can also listen to music. I don’t know how i managed to survive without them.
If you already have a pair, i hope this enlightens someone to the technological marvel available to us.
During COVID I was shown how easy it was to work from home. Now everybody is back at the office again, because they said it is so important to have the personal contact with your peers.
Now I know about my coworkers bike tour and about another’s gardening project. And all I had to give up for that is about an hour of additional sleep and the money and resources that goes into my car.
Insanity.
The text made me imagine that this was a campaign against commuting where it isn’t necessary, like for many office jobs. Imagine my dismay when it was instead some sort of bullshit “points” scheme.
