I’m about 10 miles from the interstate. How long it takes is dependent on what time of day it is.
10 minutes to 90/94, give or take a couple for traffic.
In regular traffic, I can get to I-68 in about 10 minutes and I-79 in about 15. On football Saturdays (immediately after the game) it would probably take more than an hour to get to either of them, and that’s with cops at every intersection, so I’d definitely head for the back roads.
During peak traffic times, Sunday evening, for example, it could take 2 1/2 hours to get to I-5 in my car. 2 hours in line for the ferry, 20 minute crossing, 10-15 minutes to the freeway from the landing over town.
Optimal time, with no traffic ahead of me for the boat, still about 30 minutes.
The closest freeway on-ramp is 7 miles from the landing over town, so 10 miles from me. It’s those first three miles that are the killer, time-wise.
During peak wait times, it can actually be quicker to drive around, via the bridge on the north end of the island. The freeway on-ramp that way is about 60 miles, probably 90 minutes. Then it’s another 35 miles south to the first ramp – the closest one.
It usually takes me about 2 minutes to get to I-196. In terms of road noise its not that bad as the road is not very busy as far out of Grand Rapids as I am. Plus if I was much further away from the interstate I would start to approach the threshold of being to long a drive from my employment.
I-95/ I-495 (DC Beltway) is probably the closest, and it’s 50 miles or so - at least an hour, maybe more.
It takes me about 20 minutes to get to I83. 25 if I hit the lights badly.
Nearest interstate, about 10 minutes, maybe slightly more between 7:30 and 8 am or 4:30 and 5:30 pm, but not much more, since I’d be going the opposite way from the worst of the traffic. But in an emergency, when everybody wants to get on 57, I think I’d take the state highway south a ways, and then pick up the interstate down there. If I pick it up at Monee or Peotone it still won’t take more than about 20 minutes.
I sure wouldn’t go north or east from here. Might figure out a back way to get to 80 west from here.
I’m 7 miles from Rte 128, which feeds I95 “up here”. It taks about 20 minutes to get there in the morning, though it is sometimes close to 30.
I live 1 mile from the I-580 and 3 miles from the I-880. Probably 3 and 10 minutes respectively.
I’m about five minutes away from I-695, in ‘rush hour’ traffic. Three minutes otherwise. Another ten minutes on the beltway, and I would be on I-95 (N-S); ten minutes the other way would put me on I-70.
In light of the other threads you’ve started lately, Zeldar, are you stalking people?
I-76 runs past our house less than a mile away. If the one traffic light is with me and there aren’t any drunks turning onto our road from the golf course, I can make it in 45-60 seconds. On a quiet night, we sit on our deck and watch the trucks climb the hill to the northeast and glide on past.
3 miles to I-94 and 4 miles to I-275, about ten minutes either way.
From my parking spot to I-280: 90 seconds if the light on the corner is green.
Less than 5 minutes to get on I-394. I live in downtown Minneapolis, and I rent space in a parking garage that sits right over the start of this route. It takes me longer to walk the block and a half to the garage then it does for me to get from the garage to the Interstate.
Hmm, looks like 216 miles (Google Maps estimates five hours, 20 minutes) to the closest interstate: the northern terminus of I-39. Do I win?
Yeah, but what then? See post #23. We’re toast.
I guess five minutes, or less, late at night. Probably 15 minutes during rush hour, especially evening rush hour.
About five minutes on foot, or a minute and a half on a bike, providing you don’t mind squeezing through the broken spot in the fence.
Tris
About 10 minutes to get to I-10
By car - 2-4 minutes, by bike, 7-10 minutes.