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Why faster transport doesn't shorten your commute

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Regardless of whether a society uses fast trains or slow carriages, the average human insists on living exactly one hour away from their destination. As transit gets faster, people just move further out into the suburbs, expanding the urban sprawl just to maintain their miserable sixty-minute daily grind instead of actually saving any time.

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