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a person who pays daily to spend years standing somewhere they don't want to be
means a person who travels a regular distance between home and work, usually every day.
from From the verb 'commute,' Latin 'commutare,' to change or exchange completely ('com-' altogether + 'mutare,' to change — a cousin of 'mutation'). In 19th-century America, railroads sold reduced-rate season tickets that 'commuted' a string of single fares into one flat payment; the people who bought them became 'commutation-ticket holders,' soon shortened to 'commuters.' So the word's buried meaning is not about travel at all, but about a deal struck with the railway — the daily journey was just the fine print.
- lifetime cost
- average commute eats over a year of waking life
- happiness drop
- each extra mile measurably lowers reported life satisfaction
- crush limit
- London Underground can hit four passengers per square foot
- phantom traffic
- jams form on open roads with no cause at all
- word origin
- named for railroads commuting full fares into cheaper monthly passes
tokyo to yokohama shinkansen — 300,000+ daily passengers on japan's busiest commuter rail corridor