Originally Posted by
charles vail
I must be unusual since my actual door to door (round trip) commute would be 54 miles exactly, per day, which for me at 3 days a week would be 162 miles a week total.
Quite an unusual distance for a US commuter to consider using a bicycle, I'd say. What percentage of the population do you think makes that type of commute by bicycle or would even consider it? Probably not too much different than the percentage of people living in any first world countries.
Originally Posted by
charles vail
Heck, some of our States are larger and farther apart that most European countries and we are not even talking about Texas, California and Alaska.

Ha, Ha! I knew someone would bring up that old tired chestnut of comparing "commuting" distances.. Let me know how many commuters traverse the states of Texas, California, Alaska or even Rhode Island daily.

is right!!