hey, sad commuter, how long does it take you to get to work?

With my new used Walmart bike i've got my commute down to 2 minutes. and i think i can do better than that if i pedal harder. Beat that, Mr. & Mrs. Carbon Footprint! #JillStein2016

about 50 mins door to door which is really good.

From leaving house to arriving at work 1.5 hours.

it is not good.

Door-to-door by train 10 minutes

Can walk to work in about 35 minutes

When I lived in England, two hours. Now, 15 minutes.

15 minutes door to door by bike, and I don't bike real fast.

well i work at home so a couple secs to move to my chair, unless you count the 2-3 hours it takes me every day to reconcile myself to actually doing the work

45 minutes door to door, which is apparently is relatively good. i used to work with a guy in DC who commuted from the eastern shore in maryland. 2 and a half hours, each way. but he was really, really dumb. his only explanation was "i like the water"

lol

Almost exactly an hour in the morning. Somehow longer than an hour in the evening (despite there being less walking and fewer train stops involved in my evening commute...).

Walking, about an hour and ten minutes. Taking the bus in rush hour, about an hour and ten minutes.

Thinking of moving to somewhere with a long train commute (84 minutes) at the moment, though.

When I worked at the record store, 1 minute. When I worked for an aspiring fashion designer, 0 minutes. Working at the design agency, 40 minutes in the morning, 1 hour back on average (driving).

~35 minutes, tiny bit less if i bike

~ten minutes

45 minutes door to door, which is apparently is relatively good. i used to work with a guy in DC who commuted from the eastern shore in maryland. 2 and a half hours, each way. but he was really, really dumb. his only explanation was "i like the water"

― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, July 9, 2015 11:30 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When I lived in Baltimore, my commute to DC was about 2 hours each way, which is why I thought I was making an improvement by moving to Annapolis. Now I'm completely sick of it and feel like I'm ruining my life. But when I was taking the train in from Baltimore, there were dudes on there who were coming from DELAWARE. You can't say "I like the water" about Delaware.

1 hr and about 20 mins. It's murderous. Or it makes me murderous. Take your pick.

used to be 45 minutes walking or 12-25 on the bus, depending on traffic

20-25 minutes' walk

Currently half an hour driving, very excited to soon be switching cities and upgrading to a half an hour walk. Even kind of anticipating clambering over snowbanks for a few months, even though I have done that before and should really know better.

Almost exactly 1 hour: ~10 minute walk to the train station, ~10 minute wait for train, ~30-40 minute train ride, ~5 minute walk to office. (I'm too paranoid about missing my train to shave off 10 minutes by leaving later in the morning.)

1hr bike. 1hr 15 public transport.

You can't say "I like the water" about Delaware.

you can if you live in Rehoboth

depends on when I get up, but anything between 15 and 90 mins drive

should fix my bike tbh

i have always been able to walk to work. my whole life. from the time i was a kid until now. i feel blessed. one of the reasons i got a job at the hospital on marthas vineyard is because it was the closest thing to my house.

15 min subway + 30 min bus, so 45 mins. 1hr if i walk instead of take the subway which i often do in the evening

I'd like to try walking home from work someday. I wager it'd take somewhere between 3 and 4 hours.

(One among the many reasons I'm looking for another job within actual reasonable traversable walking distance.)

35 minutes is probably the best I could do, door to door
it's probably more like 45-50 most days though

that includes stopping for coffee and breakfast though

there's an actual bike path from my neighborhood all the way to my office, ~10 miles, i might try walking the whole distance home some night when i feel like killing 3+ hours.

eephus beat me to it.

DELAWARE BEACHES my man.

I, too, work from home most of the time but when I do go into the office, it takes me anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes, depending on the weather and how flarped up public transit is that morning. It's usually closer to the 25 minute end of things, though.

xp i had a bike commute across town like that, one winter when i had some time to kill after the snow took over i walked it instead for a few weeks, i wasn't in great shape but i HAD been biking > 15 miles a day, and spending like 6 hours a day walking instead was rough, that one walks-400-miles-to-factory-job-every-day dude must have been something else

Yeah, we're talking Wilmington though. I have to correct myself that the Delawareans weren't on my train. I just looked at the schedules and mine only went up to Perryville, MD.

Maybe Wilmingtonians just really like the Delaware River...

Or they love living in the home of tax free shopping.

20-25 mins going out and 30-35 coming back, which is pretty sweet for London.

normal : 30 mins in the car + 30 mins bus.

motorway + park-n-ride.

not too bad, very cost effective in comparison to driving into bristol and parking.

about 30 mins door to door, which yeah is pretty sweet for London. I live by the tube/train station and the train takes 18 mins in theory.

1 hr 10 mins: a quarter mile walk, a bus journey, then a one and a quarter mile walk.

The journey home is a bit longer, 1 hr 20 mins.

about a 15 - 20 minute drive

Somewhere between 45 minutes to 2 hours each way, or about 30 minutes if Burning Man is happening.

It's 2.4 miles, which is about 10 minutes by car (I've walked it in 35 minutes). I have biked in the past, but seeing 3 ghost bikes in the past few years on a street that is wide, straight, and well lighted makes me antsy about riding now.

50 minutes

25 once crossrail hits

I should say that my distance traveled is only about 8 miles--the only reason it takes 80-90 minutes is because public transport connects everywhere to Manhattan and not to anywhere else.

40 minutes to an hour and fifteen, depending on traffic (SF to Los Altos).

Sacramento to Folsom - 20 minutes most mornings, up to 30; usually at least 30 to get home, often longer

After six years with a horrid commute (1 hour in the morning, 90 minutes in the evening), I now only have to travel 10 minutes each way. It is glorious, though I don't know when I'm supposed to listen to podcasts anymore.

About 8 minutes door to door by motorcycle or 25 minutes on foot. I can park a motorcycle right outside my office for $70 which is a quarter of the price to park a car in a much less convenient lot.

Never biked, rarely drive or take the bus because the sweatiness, lack of parking, and inflexibility of timing aren't worth the overhead when I can be there on foot almost as fast.

about an hour and 15 minutes (short walk to bus, hourlong ride bus, short walk to work). the actual commute is fine -- i get to read and listen to music, my two favorite things. but i kind of hate that i get home so late and can only see my kid for a couple hours at night.

plus you see some pretty-ass shit every day, damn man

about 3 minutes driving / 9 minutes walking

or 25 minutes on foot

the perfect solution !

why on earth would you even warm up an engine for that ?

Los Feliz to Woodland Hills: in the morning, 35 mins by car or 1hr 10 mins by bus; in the evening, 1hr by car or 1hr 45mins by bus. (I usually take the bus about twice a week) :,(

Used to be a 15 minute walk, moved to a different office so now its 10 minutes by motorbike

About 5 minute walk to bus stop, 35 minute ride, 10 more minutes walking to office.
Getting home takes longer cause I walk more.

takes like an hour in the am and more in the pm not even because of the number of cars but bad driving and bad road design imo. i want to die. need a new job.

:(

I have two different commutes, depending on whether I have the kids that week. If I don't have to drop the kids off at school or summer camp (and pick them up at the end of the day), I can be door to door in under 15 minutes -- about 10 minutes of driving and a few minutes walk from the parking garage to the office. Dropping the kids off makes it more like 35-40 minutes. Not too bad, I've had much worse. Some days I want it to be longer, because it's my best time for concentrated music listening.

50 minutes in the morning because I have to detour to another neighborhood to drop the kid off at daycare. 25 minutes straight to work and home in the evenings.

okay, you people on trains and buses aren't reading books, are you? you're just looking at facebook on your phone, right? i have always enjoyed reading books on trains. the rhythm of the train on the track would sometimes match my book's rhythm. the words would move with the scenery. i've done some of my best thinking on trains too. i never really took a lot of buses. even when i lived in a city.

i read print magazines

Shortest route is 1.5 miles, which takes approx 25 minutes to walk. I usually bike, though, and can do the direct route in a touch under 7 minutes if traffic lights are good. My normal route is 2.5 miles, however, and takes approx 11-13 minutes.

Coming home I normally go longer still, and take between 15 and 40 minutes.

i can be locking my front door to having someone in my face complaining in under 10 minutes
a short commute is glorious but it isn't aleays enough time to adjuust to a work mentality

about half an hour on a bus (though it varies a lot), 45 minutes on foot, I think I could cycle in less than 15 so I might give it a go

40 minutes public transport (on the tube), 40 minutes on the bike. Except two of the streets I bike down are now closed (one till December, one till whenever Moorgate Crossrail work is finished), so it's probably 50 minutes once I find a decent path.

Or an hour on walk + train + bus, which I use for long internet reads.

on a good day (practically never), used to be 40 mins bus / 12-min drive
could become 1.5 hours bus hence I bought a car. 30ish mins drive.

I never ever want a long commute

About 35 mins. Probably the best commute I've had since I moved to the UK - a relatively quiet line and a nice walk at both sides.

a new job in a new town, will have a 1.5 hr commute, mostly by train, the rest by metro/bus. only have to go in two days a week though. living in Paris proper is impossible at my current income / family size, and you have to go a ways out to really take the edge off that. I'll be reading a lot now! I don't mind it at all; the countryside is attractive.

I play games on the train/bus.

A shortish commute is one of the biggest things that I look for to increase quality of life. Sure I can get a lot of Hero Emblems played on the train, but that still takes time away from all the things I need to do at home/running. I can't imagine losing more than an hour or so on transit every day.

I've worked with people that have 2 plus hour commutes each way every day. Insane.

20-40 minute drive then a really nice 15 minute walk (I park on the far end of the university campus where I work). Definitely not the best commute I've had but it is not terrible at all especially compared to what some colleagues do. At a previous job I had this 25 minute walk around a reservoir to get to the other campus where I worked and that was spectacular

the thing that annoys me the most about my commute now is that I don't have an fucking aux port in my car so I am still buying and burning blank CD-Rs, it would be amazing to just plug my phone in for music

okay, you people on trains and buses aren't reading books, are you? you're just looking at facebook on your phone, right? i have always enjoyed reading books on trains. the rhythm of the train on the track would sometimes match my book's rhythm. the words would move with the scenery. i've done some of my best thinking on trains too. i never really took a lot of buses. even when i lived in a city.

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I hear they look at "pornography" on their "devices" these days

Sometimes I read books on a Kindle, sometimes I listen to podcasts, sometimes I read twitter.

have no internet on the tube in london, and though it's a hot and grim place i actually have a lot of happy memories of all the great books i've read there. i have kindle app on my ipad and i tend to have some paperbacks too.

I've got no beef with paper books but if I can't get a seat, it's a lot easier to read on a Kindle than it is a physical book so even if I'm reading something on paper, I tend to read something else on the Kindle when I'm commuting.

Best case is 45 minutes of driving one way; typical is an hour going and 75 min coming home. Unless there's a soccer or football game - then it's at least 2 hours to get home if I leave work after 6.

okay, you people on trains and buses aren't reading books, are you?

I am. Door-to-desk time is 90 minutes, about 70 of those on a train and the rest a combination of walking and motorscooter. I read the newspaper on the way in and a book on the way home, and listen to music both ways. It sounds like a lot of time, but with two little kids it's the only significant uninterrupted time I have to read and listen to music and its usually a pleasant train ride so I don't mind it at all. If I had to drive I don't think I could handle more than 20 minutes or so.

20 minutes by car or 40 minutes by train

yeah I love my bus blog/book-reading time and car CD listening time (I also have no aux but have enjoyed making DRIVETIME CLASSIX cds and listening to actual albums old and new)

actually since having a baby (apols for all my posts starting like that) rediscovering reading has been lovely - 15 mins of reading feels like a really long break/switch-off