# Your daily commute **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/21 "2009-07-17T15:14:02Z")
3 miles, 7 minutes. If I’m in a rush, I can get out of bed and be at work all in the space of half an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/22 "2009-07-17T15:19:42Z")
I talked to my cousin in Florida last night. His wife drives 80 miles each way every day, and it takes her about an hour each way. ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/23 "2009-07-17T15:24:26Z")
14.5 miles each way, from the North Bronx to Mid 20’s Manhattan 1 hour 15 at least each way by subway and bus. More if it’s raining or those horrid Yankee fans are on the train enroute to a game (yes, that’s your elbow in my face, no it’s not funny, and leave the effin brake alone) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/24 "2009-07-17T15:27:59Z")
25.3 miles one way, and $2.25 in tolls. I come home a different way with no tolls, but it’s about the same mileage. About 30 minutes in to work, and 50 minutes to get home. (I go in very early.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/25 "2009-07-17T15:30:42Z")
55 miles each way, all rural roads, not much traffic other than manure spreaders, deer, wild turkeys, sandhill cranes, geese, and turtles. I drive over marsh, kettles, drumlins, moraines, eskers, and dunes. I encounter 1 stoplight, a mile from work. When roads are too icy/snowy, I take an alternate route that’s better plowed, but is 2 miles longer, & forces me to go through an actual town! I used to travel 45 miles each way, via an expressway. I love my current commute so much more. ---
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/26 "2009-07-17T15:32:03Z")
Look for an apartment manager job. No special skills needed and you get a free place to live, plus salary if it’s a big building, and no commute at all. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/27 "2009-07-17T15:33:04Z")
Four miles one way, for me. I wish I could ride my bike, but there aren’t really any bike lanes (and the hilly, twisty road I live on would be terrifying). I don’t think I could handle driving the commutes some of you guys have. One of my coworkers drives about 2.5 hours each way- that’d drive (heh) me insane. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/28 "2009-07-17T15:33:22Z")
About 2 miles of rural roads, 2 miles of small town, and 10 miles of rural 2-lane highway. 20 min tops. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/29 "2009-07-17T15:33:55Z")
I get out of bed and walk to my office down the hall. I can’t compete. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/30 "2009-07-17T15:40:30Z")
Mine is almost exactly 3 miles each way. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/31 "2009-07-17T15:41:38Z")
I have a friend that does short-haul tractor-trailer runs. He drives about 1 hour and 20 minutes to work at 9:30pm, then makes a run to one of 4 cities (one of this is the city he lives in), then once back at the depot drives 1 hour 20 min home at about 8:00am. He wastes almost 3 hours a day commuting. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/32 "2009-07-17T15:46:46Z")
A measly 3 miles but I walk every day; it takes about an hour each way. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/33 "2009-07-17T15:47:03Z")
I walk through the projects about three-quarters of a mile. I smell lots of weed…at 7:30 a.m. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/34 "2009-07-17T16:06:37Z")
7.8 miles, which takes about 23 minutes each way. That’s a bit over 20 mph with 90% of it on [US Route 9](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_9_map.png). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/35 "2009-07-17T16:30:55Z")
Only two days a week and short-term, but: 1 hr. 15 min. each way: 12 miles each way. Yes, this is Los Angeles, and a particularly unfortunate combination of time and direction (across Hollywood \> Westwood). Bicycling is faster than driving, but the trek home is simply too dangerous. My normal job is about an hour door-to-door, but over a longer distance and half of it on a train. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/36 "2009-07-17T16:32:46Z")
9.5 miles. Google claims it’s 19 minutes. That’s about right if there’s no traffic. It’s taken over an hour to get home some days. That’s why I go to happy hour at the bar. Get a few drinks, talk to some friends, and still get home at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/37 "2009-07-17T16:37:10Z")
About 10 blocks. It used to be farther (about a 10 minute drive), but then we had to move offices and one of the reasons this one was chosen was because a lot of us employees live in the area too. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/38 "2009-07-17T16:38:50Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > 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? Not me, but a friend of mine. Her commute is worse than yours or probably anyone else’s here. She drives 20 minutes each morning from her home in rural Pennsylvania to catch a bus into New York City. The bus leaves at 4:40 AM and she arrives in NYC shortly after 7AM. Then it’s a 20 minute subway ride and 5 minute walk to her office downtown. She starts between 7:30 and 8 and gets off work at 4. Her bus home leaves at 4:30 PM and she will get home at around 8PM depending on traffic. Then she will get up the next morning and do it all again. 5 days a week and she’s been doing this for years. CBS actually profiled her bus for an “Extreme Commuting” story but the person they choose to follow had a total commute that was much shorter than hers, the person profiled got on the bus 30 minutes later and did not have the car trip to the bus stop…but I guess she was more photogenic. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/39 "2009-07-17T16:45:21Z")
> [@Sound Mind](#): > > Not me, but a friend of mine. Her commute is worse than yours or probably anyone else’s here. > > She drives 20 minutes each morning from her home in rural Pennsylvania to catch a bus into New York City. The bus leaves at 4:40 AM and she arrives in NYC shortly after 7AM. Then it’s a 20 minute subway ride and 5 minute walk to her office downtown. > > She starts between 7:30 and 8 and gets off work at 4. > > Her bus home leaves at 4:30 PM and she will get home at around 8PM depending on traffic. > > Then she will get up the next morning and do it all again. 5 days a week and she’s been doing this for years. > > CBS actually profiled her bus for an “Extreme Commuting” story but the person they choose to follow had a total commute that was much shorter than hers, the person profiled got on the bus 30 minutes later and did not have the car trip to the bus stop…but I guess she was more photogenic. Why does she do that? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296/40 "2009-07-17T16:45:57Z")
Cycle 5 miles (25 mins, 20 at a push) Train 35 miles (40 mins) Cycle 4 miles (20 mins). Total 1 hour 25 mins x 2 times a day x 4 days a week. But it keeps me fit, and it’s quicker than going by either car/train or car alone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-daily-commute/503296.md?page=3)