A transit expert argues that people in every society throughout time have budgeted, on average, 30 minutes for travel.
"Commuting, you see, has its own theory of relativity, postulated by U.S. Department of Transportation scholar Yacov Zahavi many years ago. He argued that people in every society in every era budget roughly the same amount of time for daily travel about half an hour one-way to accomplish routine tasks. Whether were walking, or riding horseback, carriage or bullet train, the average commute time stays about the same."
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