Today is National Start! Walking Day…at least according to the American Heart Association. I saw the article in this morning’s RGJ Neighborhood & Voices section. While I believe in the benefits of walking (or most exercise, for that matter), what I found most interesting were the stats quoted for Reno’s commute times.
• Reno’s median commute time: 15.6 minutes
• Percent of the Reno population with a commute that is 45 minutes or longer: 5.8 percent
• Percent of the Reno population that walks or bikes to work: 6 percent.
Coming from Chicago, I find these commute times extraordinarily short.
The RGJ article quoted the source of these stats as CNNMoney.com’s “Best Places To Live”, so checked out the site.
You’ll find plenty of info here on the best US cities in which to live, but here’s a direct link to Reno’s page. On this page you’ll also get to see how Reno stacks up against the averages for the cities that comprise the “Best Places to Live” on a variety of metrics. For example, Reno has only 160 bars within a 15 mile radius. The average number of bars within 15 miles for the Best Places to Live is 287!
Horacio
Minutes crawling in the spaghetti bowl vs minutes driving at 70 mph… why didn’t they mention the distance travelled… at an average mpg of 14.3 we’d getter a better fix on the gas costs…
reno rambler
I’ll take the quality of my 45 minute bike commute over the smaller quantity of 15 minutes.