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Today’s introduction comes from Conor Dougherty, a reporter based in the Bay Area.

Commute times have shot up across the country, but California has seen some of the worst of it. Several California metropolitan areas, in particular the smaller cities that lie on the far outskirts of San Francisco and Los Angeles, have some of the nation’s highest share of “super commuters.”

The worst place in the state is Stockton, where 8 percent of commuters travel 90 or more minutes to work. That is more than three times the national share and sits among the top handful of the nation’s most brutal cities to commute from.