Originally Posted by Steely Dan

i had similar experience after i moved earlier this year.

my old route was only 5 miles, but it was 100% on city streets with traffic and stop lights and stop signs and jaywalkers and double parked cars and delivery trucks galore. it typically took ~25 minutes.

my new route is 8 miles, but 6 of those miles are on a lightly-used MUP along the river with long interrupted stretches where i can really open up the throttle (the longest is 2 full miles completely uninterrupted). it typically takes ~35 minutes.

so despite my commute distance growing by 60%, my time increase has only gone up 40% thanks to the long uninterrupted MUP stretches where i can really kick it into high gear. that's an overall average speed increase of nearly 2 mph.