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Originally Posted by BevoLJ
It makes no sense to not include them. If public transit is available or not is a part of why it matters. Why the numbers matter. Not having public transit available for a large part of a metros commuter population is important and relevant. It very much should be included.
The metros are figured out by commuter patters to the large city of the metro. This is why San Marcos is in the Austin metro (a thread on that subject in the San Antonio forum).
When they figure out what counties and cities are in what metros and what counties and cities should not be in the metros area of a large city they are using commuter patterns to that large city to figure all of that out. If those counties and cities don't have public transit, that is is worth noting. Ignoring that and removing all of the counties and cities that don't have public transit and yet do commute to the large city would only be telling a small part of the story, when talking about who is commuting to where and how.
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Sure there may be a few people who commute the 80 miles one way into Dallas from Cooper, and then commute another 80 miles back to their home in Cooper. However it won't be many, and they don't have access to public transit during the vast stretch of that drive.
So you think the people in Cooper, TX, who live 80 miles away from Dallas and 110+ miles from Forth Worth should be included, but people who live in Brazos Bend; 38 miles from Fort Worth and 71 miles from Dallas shouldn't? They are outside of the metro area.
They should at least provide more accurate data by including the percentage of people who have access to public transit who use it as well as the percentage of people who don't use public transit and do not have access to it and therefore can not use it.