# How many stoplights on your typical commute? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623 "2014-11-14T16:27:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/21 "2014-11-14T17:40:06Z")
11 on the way to work. 12 on the way home–one of them is a “blinkie” stop early in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/22 "2014-11-14T17:43:15Z")
One. Basically I just get on the major-ish road near my house and the office building complex is a couple of miles down the road. It’s a pretty awesome commute. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/23 "2014-11-14T17:44:49Z")
3 stop signs and 11 stop lights. My commute usually only takes about 15 minutes. Over the years I’ve had the green light all the way 3 times. Only once have I caught all red lights. Usually it’s 5 red lights. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/24 "2014-11-14T17:55:55Z")
14 9 in the first 3 miles, about 13 miles on The Beltway, then 5 in the mile after getting off the highway, with a right turn at the last one. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/25 "2014-11-14T18:19:31Z")
20 +/- 1 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/26 "2014-11-14T18:28:27Z")
16 lights, one stop sign. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jabaski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@Jabaski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabaski)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/27 "2014-11-14T18:38:02Z")
To work: 3 stop signs and 1 light. From work: 2 stop signs and 3 lights. Sure is great living in a small town, where everything you need is within 10-15 minutes. The only way things could get better is if I could move the town ~20 miles closer to where I work. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/28 "2014-11-14T18:42:34Z")
From my bed to my desk down the hall… zero. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/29 "2014-11-14T18:44:38Z")
Six total for me. One of these is on perma-yellow-flash. Ironically, it’s the highway that is the slowest part of the commute. 128S in Metro-West Boston. Ugh. One or two days a week – none. Out of bed, down the hall to the table my laptops live on. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/30 "2014-11-14T18:54:19Z")
Going to work… There’s 12 just to get out of my city and on to the highway. At multiple points there are stoplights not even 50 feet from each other. Thankfully, portions are timed to match together, but it does take a stupid amount of time to get through if someone isn’t paying attention or decides to change lanes veeeeeery slowly, screwing up my chance to get through multiple lights at a time. At the other end is 6, and none of them are timed. Actually, no. One seems particularly timed to turn red immediately after the prior one turns green. It’s an annoying little setup because it’s another one of those within-50-feet deals. And there’s also one stop sign in there. Getting home there’s…21 lights and 2 stop signs. Christ but there’s a lot of lights around here. Regardless the commute is usually only 20-25 minutes. (…to go 9 miles. Which means I average 25 mph even though more than half my route is the highway) ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/31 "2014-11-14T18:55:34Z")
14 stoplights, about 3 miles or so. When I ride my scooter, I am always trying for a “no feet” ride, one where I don’t have to put my feet down at all between home and work. The best I have ever done is one feet down stop. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/32 "2014-11-14T18:57:14Z")
Going to work: 31 Coming home: 18 The traffic pattern and timing of the lights makes it quicker to take the surface roads on a more direct route in the morning and take the freeway and add a couple miles for the trip home. ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/33 "2014-11-14T19:48:05Z")
6 to work 8 home from work. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/34 "2014-11-14T19:54:58Z")
1. I usually hit about ten of them. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/35 "2014-11-14T19:59:23Z")
4 lights, for a commute that typically takes 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/36 "2014-11-14T20:10:32Z")
Fourteen stoplights but it’s an hour long commute so it’s a cluster of five lights at one end and another cluster of nine at the other with a lot of empty road in between, ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/37 "2014-11-14T20:25:03Z")
I walk across two, catch a train, and then take a shuttle that probably drives through seven or eight stoplights. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/38 "2014-11-14T20:28:39Z")
16 stop lights and 3 stop signs - on a 13 mile commute. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/39 "2014-11-14T20:29:03Z")
To work, including the metering light onto the freeway, I count 14. Coming home it’s the same, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623/40 "2014-11-14T20:29:19Z")
If I drive to the train, 1 four-way stop with a flashing red, 5 regular traffic lights. If I take the bus to the train, it’s a different route/train station, but still 5 traffic lights. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-stoplights-on-your-typical-commute/704623.md?page=3)