Some commuters prefer the tainted elegance of the Meadowlands as they journey to Manhattan.
At a small split in the path near West 16th Street, some commuters prefer the narrower stretch at the western edge, avoiding a loop that is often choked with foot traffic near the bathroom and the water fountain.
In their paper, published in the journal Work, Employment and Society, the academics also discovered that commuters prefer using pen and paper on trains and planes but reverted laptops and smartphones at the airport and service station.
Some interesting findings are: (1) enlarging the central parking lots is not always desirable; (2) parking fee and capacity should be set in a way that commuters prefer to park in the farther area during early arrival; and (3) a shorter access time always reduces the social costs.
Due to their faster speed, commuters now prefer scooters, electric bikes, and motorcycles rather than bicycles.
The difference in population makeup is attributable in part to Wall Street commuters, who may prefer coastline communities like Greenwich and Darien, where they do not have to change trains at Stamford, as New Canaan commuters do.
Commuters have long preferred cars and buses.
Many London commuters might have preferred a tiny extra risk to weeks of discomfort and delay.
What we'll get instead, if it is not built, is the increased pollution and worsening traffic jams that result when tens of thousands of commuters who would have preferred to take the train are redirected to their automobiles.
Kids going to school, commuters rushing for the train, nannies with toddlers -- all abandoned the overgrown, bumpy sidewalks, preferring instead to fight with traffic.
