New Survey Finds Americans' Commutes Keep Getting Longer

Auto traffic flows in and out of Los Angeles, California, one of the worst traffic-congested cities in the country

If it feels like your commute to work has gotten longer over the past few years, that's because it probably has. A new survey from the Census Bureau found that the average amount of time people spent getting to work each day increased to 26.9 minutes in 2017, up from 26.6 minutes in 2016.

Big cities lead the way with long commute times. New York City is the worst, with an average commute of 37 minutes. That is two minutes longer than it was ten years ago. Washington D.C. came in second place, while San Francisco came in third. 

Much of the commutes in big cities can be spent sitting in traffic. A report by the Auto Insurance Center found that Americans spend 41 hours stuck in traffic every year, costing them over $1,600. Los Angeles residents are no strangers to traffic and lead the country by spending an average of 102 hours sitting in slow-moving traffic every year. 

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