How Do You Get to Work: A Poll

In My Humble Opinion
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I apologize if this has been done before.

So, how do you get to work?

I drive out of my driveway onto [my street], go west on [my street] for about 1/5 of a mile to Hill street. I turn south (left) on Hill street and go for about one and a half miles. I turn west (right) onto Clear Lake avenue and stay on it for about two and a half miles. I turn north (right) on 9th street and go for about two blocks. I turn west (left) on Enos and go about 100 feet into my company’s parking lot.

Total Commute Distance: ± 5 + 1/2 miles
Total Commute Time: 12-18 minutes

Next?

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I walk upstairs and sit at my desk.

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  1. Swear loudly.
  2. Get up.
  3. Get dressed.
  4. Walk 3/4 mile to bus station.
  5. Ride bus about 12 miles to work.
  6. Get off bus, walk about 150 yards from bus stop to work.
  7. Wake up.

On a good day, omit step 1. On a bad day, omit step 7. On a very bad day, omit step 3.

4

Walking.
In the snow.
Uphill - both ways.

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Distance: 12km

I walk five minutes to the subway station, stopping at the grocery store to get a bag of fruit for breakfast, ride three stops, change trains, ride for another seven stops, change to another train and get off at the first stop, then walk five minutes to my office, pour a cup of coffee and start eating breakfast.

Total time: about 30min.

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Get a bus down the Navan road to the quays (20-50mins). Get off at O’Connell Street and walk past College Green and up Grafton Street and past Stephens Green. My jobs about 2 min. away from where the last picture was taken.

20-50mins bus ride is depending on the traffic. Dublin traffic is horrendous at the best of time but we’re building a Light Rail system at the moment which has made it even more terrible

7

Drive.
7 miles.

I feel guilty: there is in fact a bus that goes from nearish my house to nearish my office. The bus is 20 minutes’ walk away from my house, and takes 1 hour.

Whereas if I drive it takes between 30 and 60 minutes in total, and I can go out to get lunch, or go to the supermarket, and I don’t have to walk to and from the bus in the pissing fucking rain. So fuck it. Until Dublin fixes the transport probs as mentioned by yojimbo, that’s the way it’s gonna be.

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Walk into living room. Step momentarily into kitchen and turn right. Enter computer room. Sit at desk.

I do occasionally have to go into the office, however. On those days, it’s

  1. Pull out of driveway, go right.
  2. Turn left. Get on interstate.
  3. Drive about 8 miles to parking lot.
  4. Board parking lot shuttle.
  5. Take parking lot shuttle to building.

Total time: 20-30 minutes

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I pick up slugs (hitchhikers) and drive 25 miles on HOV lanes doing 70, passing cars in the main lanes doing about 30.

I then drop off my passengers near my office and go to work. I reverse the process to go home.

Doing this means I’m not locked into a carpool, which gives me more flexibility. The slugging system seems unique to the DC area, and it works pretty well.

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Walk 10 minutes to the train station. Take a westbound train 6 stops to downtown. Change trains. Take a northbound train 3 stops. Walk 10 minutes to office. Total time: 40-45 min.

Or drive 6 miles. Total time: 20 min.

Take the train when the weather is good.

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Pull out of the driveway and drive up my street. Left on Washington, right on Cleveland, left on Blanding. Hop on I-295 for 2 miles, take exit 10, turn left on US17 and head north a couple of miles, turn right into the Birmingham Gate (pause to show ID to guard) and drive to the end of Birmingham Rd, then turn left and go 3 blocks. Left turn into parking lot between Bldg 8 and the Credit Union. Walk about 2 blocks to Bldg 2 and weave thru the cubicle maze to my little corner.

Approx 12 miles, 20-35 minutes depending upon when I leave the house - if I’m en route by 5:30, it’s fast. If I wait till 6:00, it’s clogged.

12

Take Hague east two blocks to Snelling; go north on Snelling 6 blocks to 94; take 94 east to 35E; 35E north to 694; 694 West to Victoria, park, work.

Total about 10 miles, 15-30 minutes depending on the weather.

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Cycle about three miles from sunny Killester to the Custom House. It takes about 15-20 minutes. On rainy days I go by train. The station is about 90 seconds from my house, the train ride is about 10-15 minutes and my office is about 90 seconds from the station at the other end.

However, from this morning, I have to drop my daughter to the childminder before I head for work. The child minder lives just up the road so I push the buggy up there, walk back to the house and get my bike.

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I take the bus. It stops right in front of my apartment building, and takes me 2 1/2 blocks from work. It’s about…a 15 minute ride, tops, and then a 5 minute walk, maybe a little longer if I’m plowing through snow or walking with someone else. (I walk FAST for a short person)

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I drive about 1 mile to the train station, take the train for 30 mintues. Walk around the block to work. Takes around 45-50 minutes total, mostly because of waiting for the train.

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On the days when I don’t work from home, I’ll generally walk the two miles to work. It’s about 20 min on foot or 30-50 by bus. It has to be raining pretty damn hard for me to get on the bus.

17

Drive…20 miles into Maryland. On the backroads. Doing about 70-80 miles per hour. In a Plymouth Sundance. I’ve gotta be breaking some law of physics, because that car shouldn’t be able to go that fast.

18

I walk six blocks. My wife either rides her bicycle or the scooter the 11 kms to her lab.

It used to be reversed (with me commuting and her taking a 1km bike ride), but we moved off-campus to the downtown core. It’s nice how couples can co-operate that way…

19

I drive from my home to the Anchorage International Airport, board a Boeing 737 and fly to Prudhoe Bay. Two weeks later, I reverse the process.

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Pogo stick. True, it makes playing the accordion rather difficult, but believe me, it’s worth it.