Commuting sucks.

[drothgery]

Sorry, I won't rant with you (though I agree a long commute sucks).

The distance from my home to my work: 4 miles.

Time: 10 minutes

Time if I actually catch the 5 lights green: 5 minutes

I wish a short distance always meant a short time...

Distance from my aparment to my work: 4.5 miles.

Time (assuming light to normal traffic): 15 minutes
Time if I actualy catch all of the lights: 10 minutes
Time if traffic is backed up for some inexplicable reason (which happens a few times a month, always on the way home): 30 minutes - 1 hr

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I've got a very consistent commute - about an hour door-to-door. It's about 20 miles, I work in downtown Chicago (right around the corner from where a lot of the new Batman movie was filmed) and I take the train. Driving is hellish here; traffic is backed up every weekday and most weekends heading into or out of the city.

 

[Turanil]

As far as I am concerned, communting is between the bed, the computer, and the fridge. I think 2 seconds to each of them in any order.

 

[Tatsukun]

Distance, 17 or 22 kilometers, depending on which campus I'm at that day.
Time to get to either one, door to door is 2 hours each way.

Tokyo sucks

-Tatsu

 

[The Edge]

My daily journey to college.

Wake up at 6:15 in order to catch bus on time, 6-8 min walk to bus stop, 1 hour 15 min bus journey along sodding, winding, bumpy country roads followed by city trafic toward the end of the trip.

same again reversed on way home. Its a horrible way too spend such a large portion of my life.

I'll second that call for robotic flying cars!

 

[diaglo]

10.5 miles one way. avg time in 25 minutes. avg time out 45 minutes.

diaglo "lives where people drive more miles than any other city in the us" Ooi

 

[tarchon]

10-12 minutes by car, 15 by bike when they aren't doing construction on the trail, which they usually are. I won't put up with anything longer than 20 minutes in the long term.

 

[DaveMage]

I wish a short distance always meant a short time...

Distance from my aparment to my work: 4.5 miles.

Time (assuming light to normal traffic): 15 minutes
Time if I actualy catch all of the lights: 10 minutes
Time if traffic is backed up for some inexplicable reason (which happens a few times a month, always on the way home): 30 minutes - 1 hr

Well, I didn't always have it so good...

When they were doing construction work on the route I take, it once took 30 minutes to go those 4 miles....

Fontunately, they are done now.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, I didn't always have it so good...

When they were doing construction work on the route I take, it once took 30 minutes to go those 4 miles....

Fontunately, they are done now.

Not long ago, there was a big drive in our community to replace sidewalk panes that were cracked or "upheaved". We are pretty good friends with the family that lives two doors down from us on the cul-de-sac. Because we live on a cul-de-sac and have yards that are shaped like pieces of pie, that distance is about as close as most people's next door neighbors, at least in the front.

So, when they replaced one of the sidewalk panes between our houses, the commute was somewhat slowed by the construction. We were glad to see that complete.

 

[DaveStebbins]

I live 1.8 miles from the office, so my commute is five minutes by car or eight minutes by bicycle.

I went to school in Buffalo, where it takes at least 20-30 minutes to get anywhere. When I first moved here, we lived in one of the outlying suburbs so it took 20 minutes to drive to work. That seemed on the short side of normal to me, and hideously long to everyone else in the office. I guess it depends upon what you're used to.

-Dave