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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Bernard Peek   
    wrote:   
   > On 22/01/14 20:30, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In ye olde days, "commuting to work" for most people meant walking a   
   > > relatively short distance. These days some people can travel for two   
   > > hours or more on a fast train just to get to work, working and living   
   > > in what are actually two different cities ... which is rather crazy.   
   >   
   > When the company I worked for did a big survey we found that 80% of   
   > London residents live less than two miles from where they work.   
      
   I don't think surveys from 1762 mean much today.   ;-)   
      
   The problem is "surveys" are never accurate because they simply ask far   
   too few people and then "extrapolate" (i.e. guess) for everyone else.   
   Then you've got people who lie, either knowingly or unknowingly ..   
   realistically, without using the meter in their car's dashboard, how   
   many people would have any clue of the exact distance from one place to   
   another?   
      
   A quick Google search turns up statistics for 2012 (from equally   
   unreliable surveys) which say London workers have an average commute   
   time of "75 minutes" ... over an hour to travel "less than two miles"   
   would mean traffic (both pedestrians and vehicles) is horrendously bad   
   or maybe public transport basically useless.   :-)   
      
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