Ms. Yoon discussed how to improve transportation and identified typical travelers, from public transit commuters to pedestrians, and how different links between towns, cities and distant commuter communities could be optimized.
London's key workers strap-hang on laughable trains from distant commuter towns to serve the wealthy before being returned to their flats in time for the de facto curfew each day.
And yet we're destroying them, selling them off, leaving us at risk – particularly in London – of creating endless deserts of luxury flats, let by investor owners or maintained by absentee owners from Hong Kong or Moscow who use them as pads to drop into a couple of times a year, tended by workers travelling from distant empty commuter suburbs and towns with weary resignation.
Yet as I stared out of the window I felt distant from our fellow commuters.
But the fastest-growing part of the state and the most Republican is the eastern panhandle, an exurb of distant Washington, DC, full of rich commuters and fast-rising property values.
Forty miles northwest of Chicago, Carpentersville is a bit too far to be a commuter town and not distant enough to be a self-contained village.
Marauders operate in an area that is proximate to a home base while commuters commit crimes in locations more distant from their place of residence.
The result is more and more commuters crowding the freeways from increasingly distant parts of Southern California.
Still, California Plaza is in the far northeast corner of the downtown white-collar district, putting it more distant from the Harbor Freeway, a main link to commuter routes, than the Wells Fargo, Security Pacific and Crocker Center towers nearby.
Long-distance buses operated by Greyhound and Adirondack Trailways were not permitted to use the streets to load passengers, as the commuter buses were, so passengers bound for distant points were among those most seriously affected.
