I wish more people would respond to this comment rather than debate the benefits...

legulere · on Sept 13, 2019

cars are used around 10000 km per year in Germany by what I found online. That’s around 30 km per day.

criddell · on Sept 13, 2019

Americans drive around twice that much. The latest number I could find was 13,476 miles per year for the US.

akerro · on Sept 13, 2019

I use my car for 6km per day, but I do 700km in a day on motorcycle on a weekend day.

sleepychu · on Sept 13, 2019

Anecdotally 140km between Glasgow and Edinburgh (round trip) so it seems like inter-city commuting is probably out.

kingkongjaffa · on Sept 13, 2019

Virtually no one in the UK is doing this, this is an absurd answer.

80 miles (128km) a day is a pretty harsh commute I used to do, the vast vast majority are doing significantly less than this.

pjmlp · on Sept 13, 2019

When I used to regularly visit Bristol, I got to learn quite a few that used to commute to London from Bristol and Bath surrounding areas.

rsynnott · on Sept 13, 2019

The vast majority of people don't commute 140km a day.

chrisseaton · on Sept 13, 2019

That’s an extremely specific single example. Can we really usefully generalise from it? Maybe some cities are closer than these two?

jameshart · on Sept 13, 2019

Glasgow also has only 1201 annual hours of sunshine, less than 3.5/day. What a strange example to choose...

wongarsu · on Sept 13, 2019

Anecdotally I live 8km from work (same city, Europe), making a 16km/day commute.

nkozyra · on Sept 13, 2019

That seems on the high end of a traditional commute; given traffic that takes, what, nearly two hours each way?

kingkongjaffa · on Sept 13, 2019

I used to do 80miles (128km) a day with harsh traffic and that was 1.5 hours each way(40miles). so yes you are right it's much closer to 2hrs than 1hr.

leadingthenet · on Sept 13, 2019

It's closer to an hour, than it is to two.