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180 � Transportation Statistics Annual Report 1996
TABLE 8-4: MEAN TRAVEL TIMES TO WORK IN SELECTED AREAS, 1980–90 (IN MINUTES)
Region Area 1980 1990 Change (percent)
North New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island CMSA 33.7 31.1 –7.7
Chicago-Gary-Lake County, IL-IN-WI CMSA 26.3 28.1 6.7
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton, PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA 24.0 24.1 0.5
Detroit-Ann Arbor, MI CMSA 22.5 23.4 3.8
Boston-Lawrence-Salem, MA-NH CMSA 23.4 24.2 3.6
Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH CMSA 21.6 22.0 1.7
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI MSA 20.1 21.1 4.9
St. Louis, MO-IL MSA 22.6 23.1 2.3
Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, PA CMSA 22.8 22.6 –1.1
Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN CMSA 21.8 22.1 1.4
Milwaukee-Racine, WI CMSA 18.8 20.0 6.2
Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 20.7 21.4 3.6
South Washington, DC-MD-VA MSA 27.2 29.5 8.5
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA 22.4 24.1 7.4
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX CMSA 25.9 26.1 0.7
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA 22.6 24.1 6.5
Atlanta, GA MSA 24.9 26.0 4.6
Baltimore, MD MSA 25.3 26.0 2.7
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 20.2 21.8 7.8
West Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, CA CMSA 23.6 26.4 11.9
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA 23.9 25.6 6.9
Seattle-Tacoma, WA CMSA 22.8 24.3 6.7
San Diego, CA MSA 19.5 22.2 13.7
Phoenix, AZ MSA 21.6 23.0 6.5
Denver-Boulder, CO CMSA 22.0 22.4 1.9
Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA CMSA 21.4 21.7 1.5
KEY: CMSA = consolidated metropolitan statistical area; MSA = metropolitan statistical area.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Journey-to-Work Trends in the United States and Major Metropolitan Areas,
1960–1990 (Washington, DC: 1993), table 4-13.
ington Corridor and in Chicago. New York has
the greatest proportion of commuters who use
transit (see figure 8-3).
In the rest of the country, San Francisco is the
only major metropolitan area where transit share
approaches 10 percent. In Minneapolis and Los
Angeles the share is 5 percent and in Dallas only
2 percent. The fact that transit shares are low in
rapidly growing metropolitan areas of the South
and West reinforces the countrywide shift away
from transit. Many people in such southern and
western cities as Dallas and Los Angeles ride in