If I leave the house before 7am, I get to work in about 32 minutes. If I leave the house after 7 am, a solid 1 hour and 15 minutes. [Add time for incidents like the 1 car, 2 semis and a recycling truck pile-up this morning that blocked two and a half lanes.] Homeward bound is the same no matter when I leave: one hour. [Add time for incidents like the fuel truck that exploded on the tollroad overpass last night - THAT hour and a half delay was a hoot! (Driver was okay, last I heard.) I have 14 alternate routes in case of such emergencies, but had I missed the exit needed for the first 8 of them.]
Driving, nothing! Take our local bus system. Please! As an experiment, I gave it two weeks: no way, tried it, nu-uh no-more. I had to catch the bus at 5:30 am to make it to the downtown terminal by 7 am (one connection at the mall), to miss the connecting bus by 10 minutes (the schedule works that way) and wait 30 minutes for the next bus, to get to work at 8:35, five minutes after I am supposed to be started (if I was lucky - I was 45 minutes late one day after a minor accident involving the bus). To get home, I would have to leave 15 minutes early to catch the last full-route bus into my part of town. [For some reason, the bus system decided to stop running the full route after 7:30 pm, and has the bus turn around 6 miles away from my home stop. No way I am walking 6 miles on a busy highway, especially in twilight or after dark.] The people on the bus were interesting [!], but spending 6 hours on the bus plus cutting down my work day was just not a feasible solution. And now they want a light-rail system?!?!?!?
I’m sorry; was I ranting? I would love to move closer to my work, but that is just not possible at this time, and the rents in the area have gone skyward. At least Roommate can walk to work (1 mile, 15 minutes, including a stop for a soda at the convenience store.)
I used to commute 1 hr and 15 min from Sterling, VA to Falls Church…that was horrible. Now I commute about 20 mins, from Fairfax to Reston. When I move to Alexandria in 2 weeks I will have about a 30 minute commute in and 1 hr commute home. ( I will be driving home towards DC at 8am…I don’t think it will be a pretty site. )
It seems to me that if you are paying living expenses then they can pay for commuting expenses, especially since you give them 100 a day and let them keep what they don't use. Just my .02.
In the morning, I’m 30% awake, so the whole commute barely registers. In the afternoon, I’m usually thinking about my day and what I need to do when I get home, so the time flies. Thank gawd!
25 minutes if I walk, less than 10 if I cycle. If I chose to, my company would provide me with a company car and a fuel card. So in that respect, my commute time would be paid for.
I work two blocks from my house. But I usually take
the scenic route, stop for coffee, walk for an
hour or so, and then come to work. If you think
I’m leaving the house just to go to work, you’re
crazy.
I believe my commute is about 8-9 miles. Amazingly, it can take me anywhere from 10-15 minutes by freeway, and about 15-20 minutes on surface streets. Where I work is a bit off the freeway, so that does slow things down a bit. The freeway, I’ve found, can be every bit as long as the surface street–and longer–despite the fact I’m only on it for about a 5-mile stretch. The 10 freeway is evil.
One time, however, it took me nearly 40 minutes to get to work. It was raining, there was an accident on the freeway, and surface streets were clogged up. 40 minutes! Bleh!
I drive exactly 200KM (how much is that in miles?) a day… and I’m loving it… it takes me about an hour and 20 mins to get there (leaving around 2.30pm) and just under 1 hours home from work (just after midnight)
Im loving it… i seriously love it… its the best way for me to just relax, clear my head… think about the stuff i look forward to and generally reflect on the day that passed… or ofcourse… just scream my lungs out singing!
I changed jobs rather than commute the 30 miles each way that the relocation of my previous company would required.
FWIW: When I worked for a company that attended mulitple job sites, we were not paid for any drivetime during the course of the work-day. We recieved pay only for actually hours logged at the job sites.
My commute is 4 minutes on average each way by bicycle. Of course, that’s probably to be expected in Oxford when you live at one college and work at another.
On occasions I have “commuted” back and forth three times in a day.
I obviously dont know how it is in the states but here in denmark u get a deductable on your income tax to make up for the long travel to work…
That means i get a $25 deductable every day for driving to and from work… thats actually more than i pay for gas and maintinence of the car so for me it works out great… and with a 50% incometax u take every deductable u can get i can tell u that!
U dont get your transportation expenses covered in any way in the states?
You posted ‘Shortest non-self-employed commute so far!
My commute is 4 minutes on average each way by bicycle…’
I say, old boy, you must keep the standard up on behalf of us Brits. Gazoo posted a 2 minute walk to a bank earlier in the thread. Still at least you live in a beautiful city.
As for the thread:
I live and work in a charming town - walk to work takes 3 minutes. My mate commutes to London by train. 110 miles, with one change.
Does anyone use Amtrak to commute? When I got off at Milwaukee, the conductor moved some steps into position so we could disembark. (Slight lack of forward planning there, methinks).
I drive about 14.5 miles to school each way, same coming home. I drive mainly on a divided highway and the speed limit goes from 35-55-45 (Causeway, Summerlin, McGregor). I also computed that it costs me about $6.50 a week to drive to and from school in gas. Not bad.
Let’s see, I work at a hospital and i live accross the street from it. It takes me about 1 minute 30 seconds to walk to my office from my front door. It used to take almost 2 minutes but they just moved my office. Oh and I coach volleyball at the High School. Takes me about 8 minutes to drive there. Small towns are nice.
I live less than three blocks from school, so my walk takes about 5 minutes. If I rode a bike, it’d take probably 2 minutes. The drive (yes, I’ve driven it once or twice, when I was already late for class) takes about 30 seconds.
I live about 14 miles north of Little Rock Arkansas and work downtown. My commute is usually about 30 mins if all goes well. If I hit some lights wrong 45 mins. Raining = 1 to 1.25 hours and it there is an accident on any of the bridges FORGET ABOUT IT !!!
16 miles from door to door. Takes about 15 minutes to get to work. (I start at Midnight) Takes about 45 minutes to get home. (75 minutes while the MTA bus strike is going on!)
Hanover County to downtown Richmond, about 15 miles and about 20 minutes (add 5 minutes if I have to drop Lilly off at day care - I like to dawdle over the moms).
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