“Swift swings” takes a quick peek at one economic trend.
The number: The pandemic helped to slash by nearly one-third the number of Southern California workers with 90-minute-plus commutes.
The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at Census Bureau stats focusing on what’s dubbed “super commuters” – folks in the five-county region with workday trips of an hour and a half or longer. Sadly, the latest data is for 2022, which we compared with pre-coronavirus 2019.
Quick analysis
A host of factors ...