[delts145]

The fact that you refer to Salt Lake's CSA as 1.7 million represents well your accuracy. Forget the periphery, Just the addition of the immediately adjoining Ogden/Clearfield and Provo/Orem put's you off by a few hundred thousand. So much for your typical agenda.

I'm well aware of the commutes of metros much smaller, relatively the same, and much larger, such as New York and L.A., because I have made them and continue to make them on a regular basis. Whether smaller, even to, or larger in size, I have yet to encounter a metro that has kept pace as well with it's traffic as the Wasatch Front, including Denver. This isn't the first time The Wasatch has been ranked among the best commutes. There is a reason for it, no matter what the size comparitive is. It simply takes less time to go from point A to point B along the Wasatch.