# Commutes & Walk-To-Work Times **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226 "2008-07-30T13:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/21 "2008-07-30T16:00:29Z")
I don’t own a windshield and my commute is about 4 meters. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/22 "2008-07-30T16:13:21Z")
Drive one way: 20 minutes and $20 for parking. Transit one way: 15 minutes of walking, 20 minutes on the train, $2.50 for transit ticket. Bike one way: 35 minutes of biking. No cost. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/23 "2008-07-30T16:17:25Z")
I don’t own a car, so windshield time = 0. Door to door commute is about an hour, as follows:[ol][li]Panicked 100-metre dash to the bus stop: 1 minute.[_]Ride to subway station: 10 minutes.[_]Run through gates and down stairs to train: 3 minutes.[_]Train ride for two stops: 5 minutes.[_]Exit train at Islington station, run up escalator, through concourse, up steps to express bus: 4 minutes.[_]Express bus along freeway to work: 40 minutes.[_]walk across road to work: 3 minutes. [/ol]It’s much too far to walk or bike, even if the freeway didn’t cut at an angle across the street grid, making equivalent routes by surface street much longer. There’s also about 10 minutes of slack in this schedule, which I spend buying a newspaper and waiting for the express bus. The express bus is the least frequent and most important part of the trip; I can walk from my apartment to Islington in about 45 minutes.[/li] On rare occasions coming home, there have been no problems on the freeway and I’ve made every connection _just so_ and finished the trip in 45 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/24 "2008-07-30T16:22:41Z")
Summer: Approximately 50 minutes each way. Winter: Has taken 3 hours one way. (Shudder.) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/25 "2008-07-30T16:23:56Z")
[QUOTE=Desert Nomad] I don’t own a windshield and my commute is about 4 meters. [/QUOTE] Dang, you beat me, probably because I have to come downstairs. 8 steps from bed to stairwell, 11 steps down, 8 steps to my office chair. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/26 "2008-07-30T16:24:08Z")
My door-to-door travel time is about 20-30 minutes when I use public transit, depending on whether or not my bus is running on schedule. Same trip is 40 minutes on foot, which I try to do at least 2-3 times a week. If I drove (which I don’t, due to lack of both license and car), it would be a 10 minute commute to work… except the closest affordable parking lot is a 15-min walk from the office, which would pretty much defeat the whole purpose of driving in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/27 "2008-07-30T16:24:39Z")
Drive: 10-15 minutes. Walk: An hour. Solution: iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/28 "2008-07-30T16:25:09Z")
For me it is a 10 minute walk to school. Biking or rollerblading would reduce that time, but the extra time spent locking up the bike or getting into shoes would make it all about equal. My girlfriend rides her bike to school each day. It takes her about 40 minutes of hard riding to get there (I’ll do it in 30). If she takes the bus, even taking the express, it is 45 minutes. And that doesn’t even include time spent walking to and from the bus stops. So the public transit only happens on days with poor weather. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/29 "2008-07-30T16:28:02Z")
If I drive at rush hour (8-9am) it can take 40 mins Outside those times it’s 14 mins I really ought to start cycling as it’s only 5 miles… so maybe 35 mins or so. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/30 "2008-07-30T16:32:22Z")
10 minute walk. Even if I had a car, it’d be pointless to drive. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/31 "2008-07-30T17:02:14Z")
[Here’s](http://www.lintonhall.edu/) a photo of where I’ll be working come September. The photo was taken from directly in front of where I’ll be living full time come September. It’ll be a minute or two of walking, depending on the weather. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/32 "2008-07-30T17:21:28Z")
Fos this summer job, it’s probably an average of 30-35 minutes drive, all highway. There is no logical way to walk to here from where I live; any path to do so would take me so far out of the way, it would be stupid. I know my husband has ridden a bike to work (very close to here) and it took him nearly an hour and a half, since it requires either a) going over the mountain or b) looping around the Turcot train yards to reach a point where it’s possible to cross the highway. For school, I have a few seconds walk to the bus stop (across the street), followed by a 5-10 minute bus ride, an 8 minute metro ride, and a 2 minute walk to edge of campus, plus whatever necessary to get to the building I’m headed to. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/33 "2008-07-30T19:02:49Z")
Walk to work. From my bed to my office chair: 15 seconds. More if I stop at the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/34 "2008-07-30T19:06:46Z")
I live on the top of Manhattan and I work on the bottom. It’s about fourteen miles, and it takes me 75 minutes to get there. I have a 7 minute walk from my apartment to the subway, about an hour give or take on the train, and then another 7 minute walk from the train to work. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/35 "2008-07-30T19:16:43Z")
My drive to work is about 20 minutes for just over 14 miles. Public transit options are available, but I don’t want to spend upwards of 2 hours on a bus to get there (due to multiple bus stops and transfers). Walking, completely out of the question due to the distance. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/36 "2008-07-30T19:41:44Z")
For my 32 mile drive it takes me between 45 and 55 minutes, depending on traffic and the way I hit the lights. ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/37 "2008-07-30T19:43:19Z")
20 minute train ride, followed by a voluntary ten minute walk. I could take the train practically to my office, but that would mean switching lines and giving up my morning exercise. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/38 "2008-07-30T19:49:00Z")
Driving: 5-10 minutes. Walking: 40ish minutes. Bicycle: 12-15 minutes. Bonus: Bus - about 30 minutes, but because of timing I arrive about 25 minutes early. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/39 "2008-07-30T19:57:47Z")
I don’t drive, so I walk to work. 2+ miles, roughly 40 minutes. If I took the T, it would be about the same amount of time, minus $1.70 each way and plus the inconvenience and discomfort of riding the T with 342342 sweaty commuters. Thus, I walk even in the pouring rain. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226/40 "2008-07-30T20:05:50Z")
Similarly, blew the clutch on my pickup, so… 20 minute walk to train station 59 minute train ride 20 minutes to detrain, weave around the clueless and the slow, get coffee and arrive at work. Longer on the way home if I work late and miss the express trains. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commutes-walk-to-work-times/458226.md?page=3)