Like the title says, share something about your daily commute :)
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
What kind of advice or insights would you like to share with the rest?
Etc.
I walk next door. I like that its close by and I can spend my lunchtime laying on my couch. I hate its close by so I’m practically always working. I would also want to listen podcasts during commute but all of them are too long for my commute. Overall I recommend living close to work. (it’s my own business, I’m not employee)
I work from home, so I leave my house maybe a couple times a week. Good for not having to deal with other people, bad for never seeing or interacting with other people. You have to put in effort not to be a huge shut-in, which can be nice but not always all the time.
About 45 minutes with car. I mostly choice my own times so almost never drive in “busy”(busy traffic where I live at most add 5 minutes to your commute). As it never soul crushing traffic I don’t really mind.
Some weeks I work 5 days on site from 8:00 till 22:00, but some days I work 2 days on site for 4 hours a day and one day at home. So a extra 1,5 hours a day if I work on site I don’t really mind.
Only thing I would love to change is being able to go with public transport. Most days I can arrive on my work on time. (Even if i need to got up pretty early if I start at 8) But the problem is I can’t get home if I don’t leave before 17:30 from work. That’s mostly not possible. (Or at least I don’t know at the start of the day which time I’m done)
I don’t really care Public transport is a 30 minutes longer commute, or that it is more expensive (my work pays the full ticket price anyway). The problem is I just can’t get home after work.
I commute from my bed to where ever I last placed my laptop.
For me, it’s rolling over to look at it on my nightstand XD Work starts at 8, so my alarm is set for 8 ;)
This is the way.
12 steps downstairs, and that’s it. Yes, I like it that way.
Absolutely no traffic + taking toll roads: about 30 minutes.
Normal traffic + avoiding a toll road 50 minutes
Traffic: 1 hr to 1.5 or if it’s really bad you just won’t get home… seriously.
I like the time I have to listen to music or kinda rant to myself, I see a lot of interesting stuff.
I hate my commute, give me work from home I am a fucking IT dude who does everything remotely anyways.
I drive 20-25k miles a year in an ev that can “only” go 80 miles. My daily round trip is 66 miles. (I level 1 charge at work if you’re curious)
It’s wild how many of my coworkers will tell me “just buy a closer house lol” yeah sorry I can barely afford to rent where I live 3 counties away.
Leaving before 6:55-7 will save you as much as 20 minutes. Leaving after 7 people are generally going 5-10mph under the highway limit as I suspect many just woke up lol.
I really like the 20 min walk to the train station, it partly goes through a park and it always feels very invigorating. It takes about an hour total to get to work or home but I don’t mind at all since it gives me a clean break between work- and private life.
One thing I really hate is when the train is cancelled and I’m stuck with only a tightly packed bus as my alternative for getting home.I would be happy with a train commute. I could get in some reading. I don’t know why so many people have to get to where they’re going so fast. Alas, no trains here. Not even a bus that comes within 2 miles of me.
How often does the train is cancelled in say a month?
Well, you got two kinds of cancellations. Sometimes it’s just a single train because of… reasons… I don’t know. Those aren’t so bad, you just wait for the next one to leave in half an hour. It happens maybe once a month?
The worse ones are when there’s a defect in the rail system, knocking out the entire rail line going home. In those cases you have to travel extra to get to a bus that everyone is desperate to get on. Which causes a lot of shoving and squeezing and very uncomfortable traveling. The alternative is either to get a (ridiculously expensive) taxi or to wait it out for several hours, which is not an option for me. These kind of events only happen a few times as year thankfully, but they’re really awful when they happen.
The thing is, I have to pick up my kids from daycare so I need to get back on time. A major cancellation puts me in an enormous stress mode.
I work as a consultant so it depends where is the client I’m trying to reach… From 5 min walk to 2.5 hours drive
I’m only in the office once a week. Outside of the winter months, I ride my bike about 4.1 miles (6.6 km). It takes about 25 mins and I cut through a park and church parking lot. I do have to cross one of the busiest roads in my area, with the help of a light. That part is not pleasant. I recently got a phone mount, so now I can listen to the news on my commute as well. The worst part is getting to the office sweaty and having to change into nice office clothes in a bathroom stall. I am the only person who rides to work at my office.
Good on you for taking the bike! :)
Why do you need a phone mount to listen to the news though? Can’t you just keep it in your pocket while cycling?Great question! I’m a woman. Generally my riding pants don’t have pockets and when I wear jeans I can’t trust the shallow pockets to keep my phone secure. I don’t normally wear a jacket when riding.
Also, not that you mentioned this but I wanted to bring it up, I don’t like wearing headphones in traffic for safety. I have worn wireless earbuds, but they fell out too many times and I’d have to go back and search for them.
Fair enough. Shame on me for making assumptions based on a username :) I should have included bag as well as pockets.
Anyway, I can understand why you want to use a phone holder if you’re not that keen on earbuds. I don’t like cycling with a full set either, so I either use just one (thankfully mine are quite snug and haven’t fallen out… yet) or I use bone conducting headphones that wrap around my head. They’re not much for listening to music, but great for podcasts and you can still hear what’s going on around you.
Work is about 20 minutes away, which is a very short commute for the state I live in. I ride a motorcycle whenever it’s not raining really hard.
What I dislike is there is only one curvy section of road between home and work, and most of the time, I get stuck behind someone who is terrfified at the prospect of a road that isn’t perfectly straight, and they will trundle along at 25 mph for the entire section.
Thankfully, I have an interview today that could reduce my commute to the length of my house.
It sucks donkey dick. About 1.5 hours in the morning to work and 1 hour home. A lot of the company works from home but I am on a 3 month contract and they want me there. I ONLY support remote users.
Work from home much of the time but when I do commute into the office I cycle. 24 km one way, takes me about an hour ten to an hour twenty, I love the exercise, and I enjoy riding, except when it rains. And it has rained a LOT this year, has also been very windy and quite cold for longer than usual. On really bad days I take the ferry which takes about the same amount of time and costs about 8 bucks one way. It is somewhat quicker to drive on the way in, but considerably slower coming home in the evening, and we have no parking at work except on early start shift, so I have only driven in 2-3 days this year. I have music when I cycle which is great too now I have a Bluetooth bike helmet
I like - exercise, the pleasure of riding, being out in nature (much of my ride is along seafront) - and saves money. And now it is cycle paths just about all the way its as safe or safer than driving
I dislike - takes a lot of time, over 2.5 hours a day, but that would be the case whichever way I do it. Unpredictable wild weather, unreliable weather forecasts, has been very cold some mornings
For cold weather get some riggers gloves - inexpensive but really warm!
I commute by car, I drive 18 miles and it takes about 24 minutes to get to work. I like the highway I take to get there, it leads out west to outskirts of the city and I like how the landscape changes from urban to rural. My workplace is in a commercial park surrounded by mostly undeveloped land. The only part I hate is that there are no bus routes in the area, having a car is a requirement for the commute.
Long enough that I want to kill myself. Short enough that I keep surviving.
I hate my commute. It’s only 20 minutes but I can easily do my job from home, so going into the office half the time is a waste of my time. And i work 10 hour days, so having to drive into the office turns it into an 11 hour day. Plus, traffic is not great. The cost of gas is a pain. The only positive is I can listen to audiobooks on the way. I’ve heard some good ones. My most recent favorite was the Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson.
