Transit vs Driving

Why Do Transit Commuters Take Longer to Get to Work Than Drivers? 

Nationwide, the average worker spends 24.7 minutes, each way, traveling to and from work.  People who drive alone spend 24.4 minutes; people who carpool spend 28.0 minutes; people who walk take 11.9 minutes; and people who take transit take 48.7 minutes.

In other words,mpeople who take transit spend almost exactly twice as much time en route as people who drive alone.  Why?  The simple answer is that transit is slower.  But this flies in the face of the Ida that people have a travel-time budget that limits the total amount of time they are willing to spend traveling each day (or week).  

Is the travel-time budget idea wrong?

Read this provocative article by Randall O'Toole at The Antiplanner