Check this out:
http://movingforward.discoursemedia.org/costofcommute/I would like to see this for my city as well (pitty I'm not from Vancouver), but most of the data will more or less apply to other places as well.
This provides a great counter-argument to all Mustachians facing comments like "If you don't work in a job, you don't contribute to society". The truth is: if you commute to your job every day, you might substract more from society than you contribute!