Irvine commuting costs ranked 4th-worst in nation

Irvine residents suffer the fourth-costliest commutes among the nation’s largest cities, according to one intriguing metric.
The folks at online loan locator LendingTree looked at commuting and employment data for 100 major U.S. cities to gauge daily to-and-from work costs as measured by wages made by those commuters. Basically, how much you could have made if you weren’t stuck in traffic.
Irvine’s estimated, lofty annual cost was $9,818 for an average daily trek of 26.8 minute