I drive 50 miles each way to work (all highway). Lately it has been getting me down, as well as other things. I’d move, but I really like where I am.
So who else here has the same or worse commute?
Google Maps give me 2.2 miles. So I guess I’m not in the running.
Mine’s pretty easy - about 4km. It takes about 10 minutes on the bus or train, and about 40 minutes if I walk.
Three days a week I drive 108.5 miles one way to work. (And drive the same distance back, of course.) Two days a week I walk about 30 feet from my bedroom to my couch and telecommute.
3.43 miles
7 minutes if I don’t stop for breakfast.
12.0 miles one way, according to Google Maps. (hey, why isn’t street view working?)
Consists of getting out of bed, head to kitchen for a cup of coffee and then walk to my desk to sit in front of my computer.
Sometimes I take the scenic route and carry my laptop into the living room and sit on the couch.
According to my wife, I traverse the 10 feet from the bed to the couch everyday, DRUNK!
But that is total bullshit! It about 26 feet, I do it both back and forth and I’m only drunk ONE WAY!
Seventeen miles one way, so 34 miles round trip.
The sad thing is that commute used to take no more than 20 minutes one way. It now takes me an hour to traverse that same 17 miles on my way home, and about 45 minutes in the morning. Of course, if the gate at the installation is backed up onto the freeway, a common occurrence anymore, the commute in the morning is closer to an hour.
There’s been a lot of growth in my area in the last 20 years.
15’ from my bed to my laptop.
My commute is only 30.6 miles according to Google Maps, but it takes me an absolute minimum of an hour, and in bad weather has taken as long as three hours. Last night it took me two hours to get home because of a combination of “utility work” that wasn’t actually being done and a slowdown to 25 mph in a 60 mph zone for a reason I never learned. There just is NO. GOOD. WAY. for me to get to work.
On Mondays I work from home. I could do it more often, but not allowed.
4 days a week I walk about 10 minutes to the train station, ride the train about 25 miles into Chicago, walk 10 minutes to my office. Total time door to desk about 60 minutes.
Work at home 1 day a week.
45 miles one way, 5X a week. Travel time is just under an hour from back door to badge check if I don’t stop.
1.6 miles. I do bike a lot, but it’s been raining a lot this year - as in almost every day, thunderstorms, plus hail.
My coworker, however, lives 88.6 miles away - 1 hr 30 mins according to Google.
~42 miles one way reverse-commute from Manhattan to NJ. I could make it shorter but the way I go is just easier in terms of getting on and off highways, traffic on those highways, and the stress therein. I take the FDR to the GW bridge, stay on I80 and take that out to the 'burbs. This, that, and the other thing and I’m at the office. Going home is usually worse, because the approach to the bridge can back up.
I used to do a 55-65 mile (depending on the route) one way commute. That was a little too much and really sucked when gas was expensive last summer. The highway I often took (I78) is a major trucking route out of the port with a huge hill and there was always some hellacious accident mucking things up.
I like where I am too and don’t want to move, although sometimes the grass is greener when city traffic’s a bitch. At this point I’d rather take the hit on the commute than move.
Up two flights of stairs from the kitchen to my office. I can certainly relate to the OP, though – before my company started their telecommuting program, I had a 50 mile drive to the office too.
Mine’s about the same.
I’m about 32 miles from work. Depending on the route I take, 12 miles is country roads, 20 miles interstate, or 15 miles country/town, 17 interstate. In the mornings it takes me 35 minutes if there are no hangups on the highway. Evenings take about 40 minutes.
StG
Google Maps shows my route as 10.5 miles each way, 26 minutes, which sounds about right.
At my last job it was only 4.3 miles each way.
1.4 miles, unless I shortcut through the subdivision next door instead of going out on to the main road. If I shortcut, it’s 1.1 miles. In the winter, I don’t even get heat before I get here. I don’t walk or bicycle though because I end up driving all over creation some days once I get here.