Friday, October 1, 2010

Another North Dakota First: Shortest Commute Times

I debated about linking this article. It is so, so trivial, abut it's another first for North Dakota, so I felt it my duty to post and link it.

North Dakota is number one in the nation in shortest commute times. The average commute time in North Dakota is 16.6 minutes. South Dakota: 16.7 minutes.

(I hate to throw in an anomaly that probably was not accounted for: the fifteen-minute wait time warming up the car in the middle of the winter. Or maybe it was accounted for. Most North Dakotans I know have about a one-minute commute. Add that to the 15-minute warm-up and you have about 16 minutes. Those that don't have a car, take the high-speed light rail.)



That's a little joke: there is no high-speed light rail in North Dakota. We do have Amtrak, which is neither high speed nor light.