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5-10mins each way.
If I faced 1hr+ I'd re-evaluate where I worked or lived very quickly. Never commuted over 30mins.
Jams and stop start traffic are truly hideous.
I've thought of living somewhere beautiful but why spend 10hours in the car each week when I can be in the same place within 35mins Sat or Sunday. Most of the time you are living in somewhere 'nice' you are getting back late from your commute then sat in the house or garden. No ta
10 minute walk. 1:20 on the train, 15 minute Boris bike. Reverse coming home, so 3:30 a day.
Generally out of the house just over 12 hours a day.
35-45 mins in the car each way or an hour and a bit on the bike either way. Sometimes leave the car at work and ride home, always nice to take a spin after a long day.
Work from home 2-3 days a week, some days 10+ hours, some days 4 hours. In London the rest of the time which means a 12-14 hour day inc 2 hours train and tube at each end.
Much prefer this to the previous drive 10hr day including the 1he driving commute each way.
40hrs + whatever OT is required (maintenance)
Commute is anywhere from 15-30mins depending on traffic, my usual shift times are low traffic though.
Bike takes 25mins but is either a nasty country A road with poor sight lines and crap surface or MUCH longer B/unclassified roads used as rat-runs with even worse sight lines and worse surface...
About 10-15 mins if I drive, sub twenty if I cycle the quick route along the road, around an hour if I cycle off-road and get distracted 🙂 same on the way home.
Will soon be changing to longer though
10 seconds walk to the car.
The cars my workplace but never more than 20 mins to pick the first student up.
10 mile ride 35-45 minutes... via the shortest route/ 12 mile drive 25-30 minutes.. 28hr working week / 4 Days a week
If driving: leave house at half seven, get to work at just past eight, leave at five ish, home at half five, quarter to six.
If cycling: leave home at half six, in and leave work as above, home for half six ish
If working from home: post answer on commute time thread at about eight, whilst lying on my bed in my pants 🙂
25min short main road ride - or 75 min quiet (hardly see another vehicle) long ride. 8 mins by car.
Some folk seem to have interesting jobs - and some with commutes that I couldn't handle.
I'm lucky to live and work in a great place with riding from the doorstep.
I pity you OP. For 4 years, I commuted from near Aylesbury to central London. 20 mins on the bike to the station. 55 mins to London. Pick up rat bike and 20 mins to office. Plus showers, getting changed, faff, chiltern railways being universally sh!t 4 days out of 5. So at least four hours a day. And never took the tube because I hated it.
Can't believe i did it now. I'm similarly lucky to stoner now. WFH 6-8 days out of 10. Then most of my work is now down the road in Cheltenham, a pleasant 35 min drive. Could never go back to daily, long commutes.
15-25 road miles each way depending on which route I cycle. Normally a good eight hours at work. Try to cycle to work 2-3 days a week to save my sanity.
Only issue is that I'm riding my road bike more than my MTB.
10 min run to station, 45 min train, 15 min run from Waterloo along the river to work. 9 hour day of typical corporate middle management, then reverse the above in the evening, adding a bit of time for dodging tourists with selfie sticks.
Out of the house about 12hrs/day. I get to live in a beautiful place though, so it's tolerable (for now).
Car, 40mins each way - Horrible start/stop
Road bike, 40 mins each way - Not to bad
Mountain bike, 40 mins each way - Flat on the canal
Train, 20 mins each way door to door - easy peezy
working from home and covering the whole of Scotland my commute varies from 27 paces (yes, I counted) and a 7.45-5pm day to 240 miles and a 5 hour drive to the day's meetings/sites and a 0500-2100 day. usually 2/3 days each depending on the projects that are live.
2.5 hours a day commuting, but its on the bike so its bloody great. Would take about the 30 minutes less if I was driving. 8hrs on the button in work. I'm too old to play silly staying after 5 games.
I hope the long commuters dont profess a green/eco/look after the environment mindset 😉
About 30 min by car or motorbike, which isn't too bad.
10 minutes in the car or bike (but 15/20 back on the bike as it's all uphill) 35 minutes if I walk. Or 1hour+ if I take a long route there and back and accidentally walk into my local 🙂
Take the kids to nursery in the trailer, then cycle to work. 30 minutes all in.
Car -
In: 20-35 mins in the car, depending on how they've set the traffic light sequence off the m'way.
Home: 20 mins
Bike - 50 mins each way, depending on the wind's direction :0)
usual office day
6miles each way but there is a nursery drop-off in the middle of it
always by bike - Kona ute or singlespeed on the childless days, showers, lockers and a secure bike storage at work are brilliant. usually 45mins e/w or 20ish when going for it
Either;
30 minute walk, followed by 40 minute bus ride
or;
50 minute ride
I leave the house at 7.10am and (on a good day) get back home at 6.40pm. I'd love it to be less, but the other side of Nottingham isn't as nice.
3 mile bike ride across Cambridge, 12-15 mins depending on how enthusiastic I'm feeling...
20 mins by boat across the fjord in the morning and 3 mins ride to the office
1 hr 15 ride home along the fjord over some hills down into the next fjord and along to the village i live in
same every day...
ftw 😀
Sometimes I go for a walk around the garden before work.
Sometimes I sit on a plane for hours before work.This week is the latter.
Pretty much this. Planes about 3 weeks a month currently.
I'm in my office from 8am (my choice, no-one else gets here until 8:30am) until about 5:45pm. My transport options are:
Car - 1 hour ish either way up the M40, did this for 8 years, hated it, sold the car, so now I get the...
Train - 90 mins each way, I do this 3 days per week. I leave home about 6:20am and return 7:15pm ish. Longer than the car but it means I can sleep/relax/veg out and not be on the M40. I also have the option of...
Bike - 40 miles each way twice per week, though I generally just ride half way on the way in and catch the train for the 2nd half, I always ride all the way home. If I do this I leave the house just before 6am and return at 8pm, the 40 mile return takes me just over 2 hours.
I've done this for 10 years and I'm just used to it, often thought about a job closer to home but I like this job and this company so have stayed where I am. My wife also works long hours (she's a teacher, start the debate...) so it works for us. No kids and no plans for the them so that's not a factor either.
Too many! 45 mins each way. Leave 6.45am, home 6-7 ish.
50 hour week plus commute time.
Either a 7 min drive or 20 min bike ride at 0600 and return journey normally about 1500-30
Its a struggle but I manage.
25 mile each way.
In the car around 40 min each way.
On the bike ,between 1.40-2hr depending how fat I am,windy it is etc.
This year, I've mainly ridden home and back the next day to increase the distance& off road fun .
Benefit of shift work.
4 miles - 15 minutes pedal each way - all year round - the only rule is that if it's peeing down in the morning I can drive - I reckon I've driven to work no more than 10 times in the last year
This is one of those things you don't want to win!
15 minutes bike
10 minutes ferry
1 hour 45 minutes train
20 minutes walking
Each way daily!
Don't even want to add it up for a week. Done this for just under 5 years now, BONKERS
15-20 mins through the park and woods on my bike. One of the big factors when recently changed job, previously had an hour drive each way.
A hellish 10-15 seconds crawling out of bed and getting to the spare bedroom converted into my office.
This is one of those things you don't want to win!
Speak for yourself!
Close to 900 miles over a 5 day week, every week, by car, to get to work
Usually up at around 4:45, on M62 around 5:45 and then on way across 3 counties avoiding most of you lot trying to kill me. Say, 3 hours a day driving.
I should really contribute to more driving threads 😉
Just go for it, whats the worst that could happen
you could destroy an aboriginal heritage site or valuable environmental asset.
but I suppose if you did it in the basin of some gigantic open cast mine everything would be pretty effed already
Somewhere between 5-10 minutes by car or just shy of 20 minutes if I cycle the direct route. 8:30 till 17:30, 5 days a week. Proper graft mind, none of this sitting at a desk bollocks. 😉
Like some others here
Bottom of the garden.
or 1hr45min train underground each way / 25miles each way on bike
or 148miles each way M25/M1
or ~3700 miles each way on a plane
Depends on what needs doing.
It's about 45-50 minutes for me, by tube or bike. Could also motorbike but it's a litre sports bike and I work in a busy part of central London so it's no fun
Cycling is great fun though, try to do it more often than taking the tube
Shit there's a lot of variation on this. I ride 95% of the time. Its 25mins quick route and up to 35 mins longer / nicer routes. You can add on 1/2 an hour of messing about.
I think technically the whole site i'm working on is a heritage site, god knows what kind of hoops they have jumped through to let us work here. Daily drive is better than expected mind, only about 30 mins. Though we are averaging about 2 boggings a day in the salt flats.
12 hour shifts plus extended if busy. 45min car journey in with 30min cycle across Aberdeen. Reversed on the way home. Usually 3 or 4 shifts per 7 days.
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I think technically the whole site i'm working on is a heritage site, god knows what kind of hoops they have jumped through to let us work here.
Probably the usual dollar related ones... just doing the equivalent of popping into the services on the way home for this week
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Few days to recharge the batteries before getting home (and another red eye)
2hrs per day on current contract and have to drive. Public transport would make it 4 hours or more. Though getting some work-from-home now which makes local evening rides possible. WFH means I can get more done in the day also.