A survey of Canadian commuters released last week by Statistics Canada reported that nationally 82% of commuters drove to work, 12% took public transit and 6% walked or bicycled. On average getting to work took 26 minutes in 2010. In Toronto the average commute time was longer, 33 minutes. In both Toronto and Montréal, over a quarter of commuters had to travel 45 minutes or more.
Nationally, commuters who used public transit spent 44 minutes (door to door) travelling to work, compared with 24 minutes for those who went by car. It is interesting that of the 10.6 million workers who commuted by car, about 9 million had never used public transit to commute. Most these thought public transit would be inconvenient, but only15% had tried using public transit to get to work. Of these about half found it actually inconvenient.
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