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Originally Posted by ACT7
Are you referring to that silly TomTom study, which also said Ottawa is more congested than Chicago? That study has been discredit many times over. it's not about commute times, it's about commute time differentials between free flow and non-free flow rush hour traffic. The point being, that that's not a factor in this discussion.
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ACT7, commute time becomes relevant to the discussion at hand if research suggests that higher housing prices in Vancouver serves to force increasing numbers of low income Vancouverites further away from the city and into distant suburbs (e.g. Mission/Hope/Chilliwack etc.) for more affordable housing, thus driving them to commute (pun intended) longer distances by automobile (in large numbers on crowded highways) to job sites in Vancouver (given inadequate mass transit options)!