BeerNut Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 90 minutes a day: Here's where the super-commuter population is growing fastest in Houston Quote In the Houston area, Fort Bend saw the largest increase in its super commuter population — which more than doubled from 2009 to 2017 — while its overall workforce population grew 39.1 percent. It has the second-largest overall workforce — 317,063 as of 2017 — in the Houston area, after Harris County, but super commuters only make up 2.4 percent of that total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 5 hours ago, BeerNut said: 90 minutes a day: Here's where the super-commuter population is growing fastest in Houston I'm reading that as 90 minutes total in what I can see of the article. 45 mins each way is what I had door to door from just west of westchase to downtown in the early aughts. It's what it takes to go from the same place now to UH in the mornings and evenings. That seems normal to me, not super-commuting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 That's why it's growing the fastest in Houston - it seems normal here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 I'm 45 minutes from home to downtown every day. I hate it. It's too much wear and tear on the car, even though I go in at noon and out at midnight. I would move back in to town if i had to do that during rush hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 What is wrong with these people. Kidding aside. Wow 90 minutes in total is considered super-commuter? I guess that is me then right now. Driving from the downtown area to work in Sugarland. Mornings aren't too bad but the afternoons stretch pretty close to an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 On 10/4/2019 at 1:56 PM, cspwal said: That's why it's growing the fastest in Houston - it seems normal here It's not growing the fastest in Houston (and that is not what the article says). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 6 hours ago, Triton said: What is wrong with these people. Kidding aside. Wow 90 minutes in total is considered super-commuter? I guess that is me then right now. Driving from the downtown area to work in Sugarland. Mornings aren't too bad but the afternoons stretch pretty close to an hour. I used to have the same commute (or reverse commute, I suppose). I could usually get to Sugarland in the morning in about half an hour, but the afternoon rush hour back into town was something I tried to avoid by staying late most days. I rarely left the office before 6:30 and even then the freeways were still fairly unpleasant (as opposed to nightmarish), with anything in the immediate vicinity of the West Loop usually causing the biggest delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I took the bus when I did my "super-commute" to TMC. Slept alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 From Montrose - 30 min. to work in Baytown in the morning and 1hr home in the evening since those barges hit the IH 10 bridge. I hate that barge company again for the second time this year for laying their barges north of IH 10. Simple solution would be for them not be allowed to park them there or be fined lots of $$$$ for doing so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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