I commute 20 minutes each way (40 minutes round trip)... if I actually went the speed limit it would be...1 hour round trip , but 2 days of the week I have to drive twice.
I found out my dad has to drive 2 hours round trip for his new job . (which is why I am not complaining anymore)
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Usually 30 min in the morning and 45 min home at night. It's really painful... especially when 880 is a parking lot...
Of course, if I get to go home tonight my commute will be really short due to the small number of people on the road this time of night...
(unless I'm stuck here so long they shut down 880 where they're working on the 237 interchange tonight...)
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One job I commuted 45-60 minutes each way, depending on traffic. The other job the commute was 20-30 minutes, but it was an outreach job, so I was driving all day. It sucked.
My school commute is either 2 minutes (if I don't hit a red light) or 45 minutes (to the other campus near the coast).
What's REALLY sad is that it takes 45 minutes to find a parking spot at the main campus that's already 45 minutes away.
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My school is 20 minutes away in the morning and 10 min in the afternoon, and 5 minutes any other time of the day. Ya...the traffic is horrible in the mornings. My parents have a 30-40 min round trip to work, and most people in my area have to drive 45 miles (with insane traffic)to work every day.
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When I was in college (undergraduate) my commute was 60 minutes each way with traffic, 40 minutes if there was no traffic. I typically fought traffic in the morning, but I often waited to go home until after the traffic was gone.
When I was in high school, my commute was 20 minutes each way. At Oak Ridge, it was like 10 or 15 minutes each way. At Clemson it was maybe 10 minutes each way. At my old job in Miami, it was about 20-25 minutes each way.
At my current job, between taking Cor and the girls to school, driving to Planet Smoothie for breakfast, and then to work, maybe 15 minutes. If I go straight, maybe five minutes.
I have seen the evil that is commuting and worked to rid it from my life.
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I rather seriously doubt that you can shave 20 minutes from a 60 minute commute by speeding. How fast are you going? 90 all the way?
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Yeah, we lived out of town for a year and a half and commuted 20-30 minutes to school, work, and any chance of a social life. It sucked. Especially in the winter and the deer-running-suicidally-across-the-road season. We learned our lesson, and we haven't lived more than 2 miles from work/school/social life since then. Sure, we don't have a real yard, but the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
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In good traffic, 15-20 minutes each way. Rarely I will be going in rush hour ( usually I go against traffic..I am heading toward Seattle at about 5 PM)and then it can take 30-45 minutes.
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Christy and I commute about 30 minutes each way. It'd be shorter, but she works on the north side -- across town -- and on campus, which means we have to put up with student traffic. As the crow flies, it's probably only a 12 mile trip.
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I drive 58 miles round trip everyday. It's a 55 minute drive in the mornings, 45 in the evening. If there's an accident- add twenty to thirty minutes. There's usually an accident at least once a week.
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I walk all the way out to the living room. But the computer room (and thus Hatrack) is on the way, so it's like 45 minutes each way or so.
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I go 70mph in 60mph speed limit.. everyone else goes about that fast, and it's 40 minutes round trip so that's 10 minutes each way off the time if I speed. <first time I ever used the evil laught)
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in good traffic going 10 over the speed limit it's 20 minutes to and from school.
Same thing about the traffic and what not it's about 10 minutes to work. Work is halfway to school for me.
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If you go 70 mph for forty minutes, that suggests a distance of approximately 47 miles. If you would do that same commute at 60 mph, it would take you under 47 minutes, round trip. Seriously, it's pretty much impossible to save time on a short distance commute by speeding. If you were driving across state, maybe, or if you were running stop signs and lights. But speeding alone has a negligible impact on your commute time.
Say you have a 40 mile commute at an average speed of 60 mph. If you leave 5 minutes late, you need to average nearly 70 mph to make up for lost time. If you leave 10 minutes late, you need to average 80 miles per hour. If you leave 15 minutes late, you need to average over 95 miles per hour to make it on time.
But all of that assumes highway conditions, and most people's commutes are under stop and go circumstances, which makes the speed differentials necessary to gain time even more unrealistic.
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I take public transportation every day, and it's 65 minutes door to door in the morning, 70 at night (because of the time spent waiting for my train to leave the downtown station). Both those times include the 7 minutes to walk from my home to the suburban station and the approximately 25 minutes from Union Station to my office - which leaves me just about a half hour each way to stitch, read, play games on my Palm Pilot, or nap.
Oh, and if I were to drive (which I have done on occasion but reluctantly so) a minimum of 75 minutes inbound. Outbound varies widely based on time and route and weather and the whims of the traffic gods.
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Mr. Opera has about a 40 minute trip each way. That is, till next week, when it will become technically a 1 hr. and 40 minute trip due to the fact that Louisville switches one hour ahead and our hometown doesn't. He'll leave work an hour "earlier" though, so that will be nice!
I've got 40 minutes each way...and I can't wait until I find out where I'll be working so I can move into an apartment RIGHT NEXT DOOR! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Fahim has to stop and pray on his way to work, but even including that, it's only a 12 foot walk. Into the living room. I wish I could be funny like Papa Moose. Me, on the other hand, is a fourteen foot walk. I use the far side of the couch. Ergonomics, be damned! Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I was trying to move out last year, but couldn't find a roommate. And this year I decided I can't afford it if I want to have any vacation at all.
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I read in the underground (one hour each day) and I'm so happy my station is just in front of a library Posts: 3526 | Registered: Oct 2001
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I've got about a 20 minute commute when there's no traffic, and I work at odd times so there will be no traffic. This summer, however, I'll be taking the long way instead of the freeway, so I can ride my bike along the Mississippi. It's only a little longer, but the speed limits are lower, and it's a much prettier drive. Posts: 7954 | Registered: Mar 2004
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My commute is about 50 minutes one way. Can be more depending on traffic. I go in early and leave early so I usually beat rush hour. If I didn't it would be a little over an hour each way.
Oddly, that has been my normal commute to this job when I lived in downtown Baltimore, Glen Burnie (a suburb south of Baltimore) and now in Hanover, PA. In the city I was taking the subway and either walking or biking to/from the stations. In Glen Burnie I was driving on the beltway which is nuts in the morning and afternoon. My commute from PA is actually about 10 miles longer than it was from Glen Burnie, but I can make it in about the same time due to lighter traffic.
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When I work (which I don't do enough anymore) I've conveniently set up my workstation within about 4 inches of my bed. Now that's convenience!
My commute though is between 2 and 2.5 miles by bike. Which is pretty short, under 10 minutes (well about 10 minutes or sometimes even 15 on the way home, I'm not affected by traffic but hills ), of course my commute is fun, exciting and invigorating, I feel sorry for all you car people.
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Mine is about 40 miles from my farm to work in downtown.
But I don't mind it at all (other than the price of gas). That commute time is about my only quiet time during the day. Time for reflection, meditation, prayer, or listening to news radio. At present, my son commutes with me, and I drop him at college before coming into work, so it is our one-on-one time together (although in the mornings he usually sleeps on the way in -- he only talks on the way home).
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My commute is fourteen miles, on roads through town. It is thirty minutes if I leave at 8:45 in the morning, and an hour home if I leave at 5:00. It's 23 minutes if there is no traffic and the lights are working in my favor.
I used to go on the freeway, but I kept ramming people with my car. Now, the stops are conducted by lights and everything is much happier.
I listen to books in the car, plus lectures from The Teaching Company. I love them.
I feel sorry for me car person, too, Hobbes. I loved it when all I owned was a bike with a basket on the back, and that was all I needed. I need a car now, though. Everything is too far apart, and the metro isn't to where I can go everywhere on it yet.
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My commute now is the shortest it's been since college--10 minutes, or 20 if the traffic is absolutely horrible. My longest commute was probably about 80 minutes each way. Like Farmgirl, though, I never minded it--at first I was commuting in with my best friend from kindergarten through grad school, so of course that was fun, and then after his job's hours changed I was getting some extra time by myself, which was fun also.
In college my longest commute was a half hour from door to parking lot, and my shortest was five minutes from door to classroom (in grad school I happened onto a fantastic house that was literally minutes from campus. There was a downside--the landlord lived next door and watched us with a telescope--but I enjoyed living there nonetheless.
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quote:But I don't mind it at all (other than the price of gas). That commute time is about my only quiet time during the day. Time for reflection, meditation, prayer, or listening to news radio.
I'm with you Farmgirl - I used to enjoy my commute too when I worked. On the way home it was a chance for me to bring myself from the working self to the Mommy self and have time to decompress before I picked up the kids.
As for now - I have about a 25 minute commute to the one class I take on campus. My online classes require me to walk downstairs to the computer. I do manage to always check on my classes before I check hatrack, though.
When I start at UAB in the fall, it will be about 30 minutes, more if the traffic is heavy, which it can be. I'll probably allow an hour, to take in account parking and walking to my first class.
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I like my current commute: 15 minutes in heavy traffic and if I hit every stoplight. But for part of '02 and all of '03 I was taking the 405 from Huntington Beach up into El Segundo. About 36 miles each way, which was about 75 minutes in the morning and 90 minutes in the evening. And that was only after I started going in later to miss the real rush hour. And, of course, from time to time it would take three hours to get there because of some giant accident.
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At the moment, my commute is about 20-25 mins each way. On days when I'm working at a customer's site, I usually have an additional 20-45 minute commute (depending on when I have to be where) each way.
We are moving our offices this week and, unfortunately, my commute will now be 40-45 mins from the house to the office.
I guess it's a good thing I've got an MP3 player in the truck.
Trip is about 15 miles, each way, so about 30 miles/day for the work commute. It usually takes about 15 minutes if there's no Oopsies on the interstate. I can take the side roads if I-35 has a problem, and that can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes, depending on stoplights. I allot 30 minutes for my commute in the morning, to assure I arrive on time.
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My house is two miles from my work, and yet I still drive it every day Now that the weather's getting nice I'm starting to feel seriously guilty about that, hopefully I'll start walking it at least some of the time soon. It's convenient to have the car with me so I can run errands after work, but that can be worked around.
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Especially since my bike was stolen two years ago. Dumb city crime rate. It's no fun without mountains anyway.
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I cannot abide being stuck in traffic. And, much as I love and rely on public transportation, I loathe waiting for it. When I was in Toronto it was a 20-30 minutes going to or coming from (not including waiting for the darn bus) or about an hour and a half walking. 9 days out of 10 I hoofed it. Here in Waterloo I'm a paltry 15-minute walk from campus, and probably about the same to drive.
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quote: Why do I feel like this thread is starting to sound like SimCity 4?
I drive about 20 minutes to and from work (add five to the return trip if I hit traffic).
My favorite commute ever was about a 30 minute drive over Sardine Canyon to USU. I really do appreciate time to myself, and the scenery was to die for. I get pangs of nostalgia for that time even though I didn't have a very good time at school that semester. Besides, my least favorite part about commuting is the traffic, and that was never really an issue in Sardine.
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quote: Seriously, it's pretty much impossible to save time on a short distance commute by speeding. .. But speeding alone has a negligible impact on your commute time.
Yeah this morning I went the speed limit because there was a police man going our way and everyone was obeying the speed limit. I noticed there wasn't much of a difference in how much time I got there. Thanks Icarus I am a retard at math. I think I'll try to obey the speed limit from now on, or at least only go 5 over. Posts: 1417 | Registered: Aug 1999
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If you're going to be a scofflaw, be an educated one. Speed because it's fun, not because it gets you there faster!
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I used to haul butt everywhere. I stopped, as much as anything else, because it occurred to me that at that point in my financial career, I simply could not afford the insurance hit if I got a ticket. I'm sure I could deal with it now, but now going five over the limit is simply habit.
The stops are what kills your time more than anything else, but running stop signs and lights, much more so than merely speeding, is plum dangerous.Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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, but 2 days of the week I have to drive twice.![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
. (which is why I am not complaining anymore)![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Thats sweet Papa moose.![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
Me, on the other hand, is a fourteen foot walk. I use the far side of the couch. ![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
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), of course my commute is fun, exciting and invigorating, I feel sorry for all you car people. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
