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Every weekday, Geoff Flamank’s alarm clock goes off at 8:30 a.m.

He gets ready for work and then walks two blocks from his Tsawwassen home to the bus stop, where he catches an express bus to Bridgeport station. From there, he hops on the Canada Line to Broadway-City Hall station in Vancouver, then walks four blocks to his office.

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From door to door, his commute takes just under an hour.

“It’s wonderful, actually,” Flamank said. “I get to roll past everybody that’s in cars. I can sit and I can write. I have a nice, comfortable seat. It’s warm. I can listen to music or I can read. And it’s predictable and it’s affordable.”

Flamank is one of a growing number of people in the Metro Vancouver region who are turning to transit for their daily commute.

Some of the latest data released from the 2016 Census looks at a number of aspects of Canadians’ journeys to work, including how many people are commuting, how they get to work, how long it takes them to get there, and how far they travel.