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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

KamaAina

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6. Back in the day, mill workers worked twelve-hour days

Reply to jambo101 (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 11:16 PM

May 2013

then walked back home to their neighborhoods near the factory, maybe ten or fifteen minutes each way.

Now we have the eight-hour day. And if we commute two hours each way... such is progress.

Point: A lot of people take those mega-commutes because that's how far outside the city they have to be to live in a lily-white neighborhood.

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The daily commute,You gotta be kidding. [View all] jambo101 May 2013 OP

a year or so ago, I was watching a documentary "designing healthy communities" niyad May 2013 #1

You're very fortunate. Sometimes people buy a home near work, only to have the business fold. . . Journeyman May 2013 #2

That's a common misconception about applied happiness. DetlefK May 2013 #3

I believe in the neighborhood concept and have always BlueToTheBone May 2013 #4

having done the 2 hours daily commute for years, it's not as bad as it sounds unblock May 2013 #5

Back in the day, mill workers worked twelve-hour days KamaAina May 2013 #6