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...The flipside: New York City accounts for all three counties with the lowest number of daily miles traveled " no surprise there, given the area's density.

- - - It's 12.9 miles for New York County (Manhattan), 15.5 for Kings County (Brooklyn) and 16.6 for Bronx County.

- - - People in the U.S. travel a nationwide average of 42 daily miles.

- - - That's per data from mobility analytics platform Replica, which is based on anonymized mobile device info, roadside sensors, transit agencies and more. ...

[kudos to axios for the graphic in the article]

And, fwiw...

Back in the day, when I worked in a Louisville, KY manufacturing facility (major corp), there was a group (a car full) of workers who drove two hours to work each day from a rural area (very rural, from how they described it to me at the time) of the Kentucky backwoods to their job in the city.

Their foremen told me they were excellent workers.

I enjoyed talking with them. They told me how they adjusted their sleep cycles to be alert at work (a 200-ton punch press can be deadly), and how they shared the driving so they can be alert.

I learned a lot, A Lot, from what they told me.

Great people, imo.

@#2 ... Back when I was working my commute was 18 miles one way... about 25 minutes. ...

Well, not working, but my commute to high school was 90 minutes each way.

@#5 ... In that way I have bettered my father. ...

Yeah, back when I was a kid, the goal of my parents was to make my life better than theirs.

imo, my parents succeeded.

@#9 ... My commute was 200 miles ...

A day? A week? An hour?

if the latter, well, way awesome. :)

@#7 ... So did you do homework on the way home, or on the way back in the morning? ...

Written homework was always done at home, sometimes until 9PM. Which was tough due to the 5AM alarm clock the next morning.

Reading textbooks and studying was sometimes done in transit when my friends weren't on the ferry or train.

I often shared the rides on the train and ferry with friends from junior high. We played a lot of bridge (the card game). For four years, we played a lot of bridge. The ride on the subway (Manhattan into Brooklyn) was done solo.

The odd thing is that currently I have not a clue about how to play bridge. ...