How long is your commute?

mantis

I'm about 8 miles away and 15 minutes drive time. Then I leave the shop and go to my job or jobs for the day. I spend at least an hour a day in the van driving to and from jobs.
If I have a bunch of service calls I could be on the road 3 or more hours.

WilliamM2

7.5 miles, only a single traffic light, 8-10 minutes.

jflail2

About 2 miles. Takes me at most 10 minutes to get from my front door to my desk in the office.

decal

halo71 wrote: »

huh?:eek:

tonyb wrote: »

Is that by Train, Plane, or Automobile ?

I work offshore and drive to/from my assembly point once a week.

zarrdoss

Don't do it unless you have to, commuting long distances to work sucks. I did drive 46 miles one way every day, now 2.5 miles one way. it changes your whole life.

heiney9

3.5 miles and between 5-10 minutes depending on traffic and if I make all the lights.

mdaudioguy

Jstas wrote: »

Ummm...if you can walk 1.5 mile in 5 minutes, you're a beast.

At 2-2.5 MPH for the average human walking speed, it would take me roughly 30 minutes to walk to the train station. That doesn't take in to account days like today and tomorrow when the weather is worse than miserable. Besides, crossing major arteries on foot is not my idea of fun or safe.

I probably do walk somewhat faster than that, and based on what you describe, walking doesn't seem practical in your case. I was just wondering. I have a decent walk from where I park to my desk, so I just google mapped it and realized it's about .6 to .7 miles, and that usually takes me approximately 10 minutes. I actually enjoying walking a bit after an hour commute.

devani

15 miles...15 min to 1 hour depending on traffic....less traffic today than normal sunny day...people love snow

virtualdean

unc2701 wrote: »

I'm at seven minutes, too. You seriously need to think twice about that job. Personally, I'd want to be making twice as much to spend 3 hours a day in a car.

You must be a "guvmint" employee.

bruss

A whole 15 seconds to walk down to the office. I can even login to our corporate im via my blackberry

fossy

10 minutes / 20 min rush hour 4 miles

nadams

1.5 miles... 5 minutes if I hit the red lights.

CCNJ

23 miles / 45 minutes to hour each way (north Jersey traffic). Today working from home due to snow. I much prefer today's commute!

NotaSuv

5 miles, no lights,no traffic, a nice 7 minutes from door to door

TNRabbit

22 miles/30 mins.

used to drive from Southern MD to Alexandria, VA (Crystal City); it was 65 miles/1.5 hours! That sucked.

TECHNOKID

What should be about 45 min for a 30 kms plays between 1 - 1,5 hours because of traffic conditions. So a minmum of 2 hours a day. I remember a few years back having a job much closer with substantially a lot less money was actually providing for roughly same financial advantage since my personal costs to commute was subtantially less.

I guess any job closer to home (ideally working from home) with equivalent or slightly lower income would be a huge financial increase for me. To the OP, before you make any commitment for this new job, I would suggest you consider your extra costs and time (which also means money) for the longer commute and then deduct the figures from the pay rate of the new job. You might be quite surprise at the result and potentially realizing this move is not worthwhile. You also have to realize larger income means higher income tax payment which unless you are entitled deductions for the communte also lead you to a lower income when all considered.

fatchowmein

Morning commute: 1+ hr
Morning commute + someone does something stupid: 1.5 - 2+ hrs
Morning commute + ice: stay home

Evening commute: 1.5+ hr
Evening commute + someone does something stupid: 2 - 2.5+ hrs
Evening commute + ice or heavy rain: 3+ hrs

Distance: 43 - 50 miles one way depending on where I'm sent

Danny Tse

About 27 miles (one way)....takes about 1 hour to 2 hours, dependent on traffic condition.

Let's see, today, on the way to work....one overturned car, one multi-car accident, and a stalled SUV in the fast lane. Typical day.

seeclear

13 or so miles, about 20 minutes if I hit an average number of red lights. 17 minutes if I hit all green. The bad thing about being in the mountains of Colorado, is that there are very few if any alternate routes if there is an accident or something, but luckily that rarely happens.

mdaudioguy

Found out this morning that I got extremely lucky yesterday evening... It was reported in the local paper that many people with my commute home from Baltimore spent 6 hours on the road! I left work at 4:00, knowing that what had been rain was going to soon change over to sleet, then snow. I ran into little traffic, probably since schools had never bothered opening. It took me an hour, which is usually as good as can be expected on a good weather day. Basically, had I left 45 minutes later, I would have spent my evening on the highway, instead of watching movies with the family and a roaring fire.

cnh

Tour2ma wrote: »

About 75 feet...

Beat me. Mine is a little over a mile. One Stop sign...NO LIGHTS! I don't think that I could actually make it to work if I had a REAL commute. It would drive me crazy. I don't understand how people can fight traffic during rush hour for hours and hours; it's just not 'civilized'!

cnh

HHStuart

3 1/2 hrs a day. Car to commuter rail to shuttle van (downtown Boston).
Been doing it for 8 years.
Two more years to go.
It is especially irritating when the the wind chill is below zero and the train is late.

Stew

Two miles. A couple of stop signs and one light. Usually at my desk in 6 or 7 minutes. Another minute or two if delayed by traffic, snow, deer, antelope, etc.

Joe08867

45 miles each way takes about 1.25hrs in the morning and 1.75hrs at night.

Unless someone does something stupid than tack on an hour to the times above. Welcome to NJ.

jimmydep

1 short song away from work.

Jetmaker737

mdaudioguy wrote: »

32 miles one way... It takes 40 minutes with no traffic, but during rush hours, anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes. There have been some nightmarish commutes that took 2 hours. I guess I hate the unpredictability of it the most.

That's almost a perfect match to my commute except mine is 36 miles.

Jesse22

20-25mins 1 office
15mins. max other office (unless a train decides to block the way I find faster and i get stuck for a long time)

ViperZ

Previous job: 17 miles, 25 minutes, almost no traffic.
New job: 55 minutes by public transit (bus + subway). LOVE IT! No traffic, no money spent on gas, car and bike insurance went down . Yeah, I have to endure cold weather when waiting for a bus, but it's sooo worth it.

bikerboy

I can ride my bike the 9 miles in about 30- 40 minutes. If the weather is ugly I can ride the bus and it takes about the same time. I rode 4 days this week and had only a little rain all week. If I drive it takes about 40 minutes. Riding the bike clears the head before work. The ride home can be a challenge to push it at times.

bigaudiofanatic

30 minutes from my house to Millville

About 30 miles.