You are cherry picking the second stats of your document, but the first one indicate that France and USA are very similar. For Paris, it is exactly the same number as NYC : 1h30, the number you used it from an error in the article, if you look at the source it separate the home/work duration to the whole transport time in a day (for example to go to a concert after work).

https://www.iau-idf.fr/fileadmin/NewEtudes/Etude_1371/NR_745...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_New_York_Cit...