# Your daily commute
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 17, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296 "2009-07-17T02:25:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/1 "2009-07-17T02:25:31Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/2 "2009-07-17T02:46:34Z")
Google Maps give me 2.2 miles. So I guess I’m not in the running.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/3 "2009-07-17T02:49:34Z")
Mine’s pretty easy - about 4km. It takes about 10 minutes on the bus or train, and about 40 minutes if I walk.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/4 "2009-07-17T03:00:28Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/5 "2009-07-17T03:06:48Z")
3.43 miles
7 minutes if I don’t stop for breakfast.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/6 "2009-07-17T03:14:15Z")
12.0 miles one way, according to Google Maps. (hey, why isn’t street view working?)
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### Author:  [@GolfWidow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GolfWidow)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/7 "2009-07-17T03:17:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/8 "2009-07-17T05:09:50Z")
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!_
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/9 "2009-07-17T05:20:17Z")
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.☹
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/10 "2009-07-17T06:04:17Z")
15’ from my bed to my laptop.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/11 "2009-07-17T13:51:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/12 "2009-07-17T13:52:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/13 "2009-07-17T14:12:13Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/14 "2009-07-17T14:13:42Z")
> [@waterj2](#):
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> Google Maps give me 2.2 miles. So I guess I’m not in the running.
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.
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### Author:  [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/15 "2009-07-17T14:14:25Z")
~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.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/16 "2009-07-17T14:30:18Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/17 "2009-07-17T14:36:20Z")
> [@VunderBob](#):
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> 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.
Mine’s about the same.
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/18 "2009-07-17T14:52:25Z")
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
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/19 "2009-07-17T15:07:05Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/20 "2009-07-17T15:12:51Z")
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.
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