Australia's Sydney Morning Herald had an apt commuting race between some of their reporters using different methods of transportation to get to work.But to make it an even better race, they all started from the neighborhood of Ryde - where New South Wales state transport minister John Watkins lives - to his office at Parliament House. The total distance is 15.5 kilometers, about 9.6 miles.
The commuting methods the six reporters used were bus, train, running, biking, driving a car or a motor scooter.
The scooter commuter came in first with a time of 25 minutes. The biker came in second, clocking in at 32 minutes. Then the car commuter arrived in 37 minutes. It took the train and bus commuters over an hour and a quarter. The runner arrived last, but only six minutes later than the bus rider.
This test shows why more people choose to drive their own vehicles rather than taking more environmental but slower public transportation.
Read the full story: Public transport? You're better off on your bike.
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