Describe your commute - the transportation, the route, the traffic level, how long it takes . . .

[Bertha Venation]

as much or as little detail as you care to give.

I drive to work alone in my 2005 Corolla, which gets 30-33 MPG. My drive is about 35 miles, and it takes an average of one hour fifteen minutes. More than half the drive is in "slow & go" traffic. A little more than half of the drive is on Route 5 through Prince George's County. Most of Route 5 is lined with woods, so I can see the colors change right now. The part I dislike most about the trip is driving through the city (Washington, DC).

What about your commute?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. 10 minutes down a country road and 5 minutes on a highway.

:D

[tk2kewl]

2. car ==> train ==> subway

Car about 2 mi to train station

Train about 50 min

Subway about 10 min

[Bunny]

3. It takes me about 45 minutes to drive 30 miles.

The whole drive is rural, on two-lane roads. I go past quite a few farms, and I get to see animals grazing, crops in the field, harvesting, seasons changing, etc. I really enjoy it.

Although there are some redlights, probably about 80% of the trip is non-stop. If I had to do a lot of stop and start driving, I would probably become one of those road ragers you hear about. :eyes: The only downside is during the winter. These roads are not usually the first ones to be treated, so driving on snow and ice gets to be a real pain.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Get coffee; walk downstairs; turn on computer.

:D

[Throd]

15. Walk downstairs, get coffee, turn on computer

[Ineeda]

5. let me apologize right off the bat

bed---> bathroom---> kitchen---> computer. But for thirteen years it was a five-minute walk from my house to my office. My salary would have been bigger somewhere else, but the commute kept me there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I get out of bed, take a detour at the bathroom, shuffle through the kitchen, and

sit down here at the computer. (Although technically I am supposed to be doing things like the laundry and dishes along the way.)

[hobbit709]

7. Get out of bed

Go to bathroom, check glucose level, get coffee, tell dogs to move so I can get into computer room.

[Roon]

8. I am disabled but I would like to tell you about my weekly trip to Boulder

From my house I walk three blocks to the bus stop and catch the bus going downtown. I leave the house at exactly 2:15PM and only have to wait for the bus for like five minutes. It's a twenty minute bus ride to downtown. I get off that bus and catch the shuttle to the bus station where I catch the regional bus going to Boulder. That is the longest part of the trip, Denver to Boulder. Once I am in Boulder I catch yet another bus that takes me within four blocks of my Gentleman friend's house. I walk to his place from there. That's four buses total and with my disability card it only costs me $2.25 in bus tokens to get from Denver to Boulder. I arrive at Jason's front door at ten minutes 'till four...just in time to watch Judge Judy.

Then the following morning I do the same thing in reverse. I leave Jason's at exactly 9am and get back home by 11am.

I have been doing this weekly trip for over a year now and I love it! Gets me out of the house and away from the computer. (I also get hugs and kisses while I am there) :-)

[Bertha Venation]

25. Nice, . . . very nice.

:hug:

[TZ]

9. Heh.

I get in my little Celica and drive 4 miles down a local highway . Usually takes me about 10-15 minutes. On a bad day 20-25 minutes.

[la_chupa]

10. I take the choo choo

I drive about two miles to the train station
Take the train exactly 8 minutes to my stop
walk half a mile to my building
and either walk up or take the elevator to the 5th floor

In about a year we're moving to a new building. Word on the streets is that we're going to be in the 45th floor. When that happens I will not be taking the stairs ever, but it will be about two blocks closer to the train station.

[bikebloke]

11. About half an hour by bike.

I have to creep through traffic for the first bit. Then there are bike trails that are open (except this week as they set the Marine marathon). Then a block of traffic.

[Richardo]

12. Carpool lane, major urban highway, (usually) light-moderate, 25 min morning, 45 min evening...

I say usually light to moderate because it's a one-lane carpool lane and if a vehicle (especially a bus) has to stop for any reason it backs up pretty quickly, and you have to slow down to get around the obstruction. And there are on/off ramps only about every 4-5 miles so if you're between exits, you're SOL. Especially in the afternoon.

On the main highway, however, it's a cluster all the time.

[madinmaryland]

13. 5.1 miles through town. 11-14 minutes, depending on how I hit the two traffic lights.

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. Well it's this way

I drive alone in either a 97 Accord 29 MPG or a 00 Silverado 17 MPG. 20 Miles to work mostly interstate takes 15-20 minutes. Probably cause I leave about 5:15 in the mid morning. As I usually head home sometime between 4 and 8PM the traffic is highly variable. Can take from 20-45+ minutes.

[RebelOne]

16. I work from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., so miss a lot of the heavy traffic.

I live in Woodstock, GA and work in Marietta, GA, which is about a 30-mile round trip. In the morning, I can just zip right into work in about 25 minutes. But the afternoons take about 35 to 40 minutes because the traffic starts to build up around 4 p.m. I am just northwest of Atlanta, so any traffic in the metro Atlanta area is pure hell.

[charlie and algernon]

17. around 20 minutes, both ways

just an easy jaunt down the highway. What's great is that both times I'm going against the main flow of traffic, so it's never a problem. Now 3 months ago I worked in Baltimore, so it was easily a 30 minute drive in the morning and a hellish 45 minute to an hour hellride home in the evening. It would literally be bumper to bumper from my office all the way to my apartment 30 miles away. :banghead:

SOOO glad I got another job elsewhere in the state.

[gratuitous]

18. 50-55 minutes

Down the Springwater Corridor along Johnson Creek for five miles, a turn northward for three miles along the Willamette River past Ross Island, over the Hawthorne Bridge into downtown. A little over 12 miles past feral cats, a few bunnies, some noisy ducks and geese, and the occasional majestic crane in Oaks Bottom. Oh, and there's a doe I've seen a few times.

[flying rabbit]

27. I don't do that on the way to work

but I used to ride that all the time. Fantastic bike trails.:thumbsup:

[KamaAina]

19. 20 minutes' walk each way

slight complication: north San Jose is so industrial that sidewalks are considered optional. Thus, about five of the 20 minutes are spent in a bike lane, or once that ends, the gutter.

Of course, this will all be going away once I get in the real place next month. Tack on 25 minutes of light rail each way to a 10-15 minute walk to the rail stop. (Even there, I'll have to backtrack to stay on sidewalks. :eyes: )

[ajax24550]

20. 45 min by car

[deucemagnet]

21. Just shy of a half a mile.

Usually by car, since I'm juggling a cup of coffee, a briefcase, and a lunch. I should really buy a bike and a backpack.

[SidneyCarton]

22. I ride my bicycle the half mile to work on campus.

Its all downhill on the way to work, it's going home that's not fun.

[mikeytherat]

23. Two jobs:

1. IT gig:
Get up, exit bedroom, head downstairs, left at bottom of stairs, enter office. Might divert down center hall to kitchen for coffee first.

Traffic level will most likely be two tabbies, one gray and one orange, who will race me to the bottom of the stairs. Cat No. 3 stays on the bed.


2. Music gigs:
Anywhere from 20-1000 miles round trip, all by car loaded with gear. Route, traffic level, etc. will vary.

mikey_the_rat

[graywarrior]

24. 8/10 of a mile.

I walk. Takes me 12-15 minutes depending on whether the coyotes are roaming around...lol...they usually are evenings. I mock the traffic going by me at a snail's pace...ha ha.

School, however, is twice a week, 8 miles one way. I drive a 95 Camry that gets 32 mpg. Not much traffic, I pass the Merrimack River and several big ponds, lots of woods and marsh areas. Cool drive either way.

[Brickbat]

26. Head to kitchen to pick up coffee, head to the basement office. If it's a bad day, there's stuff on

the stairs. That can delay me by about three seconds.

Before I resigned and started working from home, my commute involved a 30-mile drive twice a day on a fairly rural expressway through northeastern Minnesota. No backups, nothing. Not bad, for 60 miles a day.

[Nikia]

28. I have a relatively short commute

I pull out of my drive way and travel several feet to a stop sign. Turn left. I travel a block and take a right. I travel around 3/4 of a mile to a stop sign and turn left. After another block, I turn left and travel a few feet to the company parking lot.
Traffic can be heavy in the morning in regards to getting out of my driveway and then turning left at the first stop sign. This is because I get school traffic. In the summer, I usually do not have any delays. If I had to, I could bike or even walk, but I come home for lunch and need to be able to travel quickly.

[montessorimama]

29. 2 miles and 5 minutes

I take a right out of the driveway, another right, then a left, then a right then a left.

I drive a Honda Civic Hybrid that gets about 45 mpg city miles.

[madeline_con]

30. 3 to 4 minutes, '91 Chevy Cavalier. Great mileage. I fill up every 2 weeks.

[csziggy]

31. Jump in the electric golf cart and ride across the farm to the barn

Takes about 2-3 minutes and if I am lucky I get to see deer, turkey, foxes and other wildlife along the way. That is on the days I am up to working with the horses.

Too much of the time these days, I drag my ass across the house, stopping to set up coffee and get a bowl of cereal, and sit at the computer to read the news and weather. Then I might spend some time working on needlework projects or trying to make sense out of the chaos of paperwork that has accumulated in the last year and more.

One of these days I hope to invest in a solar roof to recharge the golf cart batteries, but it is not in the budget right now.

On the other hand, my hubby has to drive into town to work - about 14 miles of country and suburban roads with only a little congestion at the very end. With his work schedule now, he does not see much rush hour stuff. He's working noon to 8 most days.

[csziggy]

32. Dupe

[femmocrat]

33. Shortest = 4 miles, no traffic.

Longest = 9 miles, little traffic, sometimes a slow farm vehicle.

I travel to 4 buildings.

[cbayer]

34. I walk far enough to grab my laptop, then get back in bed.

At some point, I get out of bed, get dressed and repark my lazy self and laptop onto the couch.

As it warms up, I move my indescribably lethargic self into the cockpit with laptop fully charged.

I am officially going for the Guinness Book of World Records for laziest person alive.

Of course, that would involve actually contacting them, which I am too lazy to do.

:hi:

[Kali]

35. depends on what I'm doing

paperwork - here in the living room
garden/yard - right out the door
barn/corrals - 100 yards down the driveway (usually walk, heh)
other pens or checking waters/cattle/"things" - up to 20 miles or more if making circles) on good to really bad dirt roads - truck or van (or horseback)

to town to sell or purchase supplies - 12 to 20 miles or more depending on which town, can go any of three ways in the truck, car requires going out on a gasline right-of-way onto the interstate and if going west need to go east 4 miles first to turn around at the next exit (or cross the median illegally, but I would never do that :evilgrin: )

mail is 7 miles away in a tiny hamlet, usually combine that with another errand

[Ptah]

36. 75 steps from my front door to the bus stop.

15 minutes on route 15S.

300 steps to the door at work.

I love it!

:hi:

[gristy]

37. 3 miles. Door to desk is a 12 minute drive or 17 minute bike ride.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. door to door 20 minutes, if I get out of here before 7:15 am. However in

about a month our offices are moving to ( *#Y%() %&*( Las Colinas and I will have 4x the drive I now have.

I think my drive is 8 or 9 miles now. It will be 38 to 42 depending on the route and it will be slow and go at the wrong time of day.

I am not looking forward to it. I am considering checking books on CD out of the library though for entertainment.

Mine is a typical city commute...Interstate 20 to Interstate 35W north to Interstate 30 then two exits. I could also go up one of two local traffic streets directly to I30 but it is slower because of school zones and lower speed limits and red lights.

My new route will probably be Loop 820 to I30 then east on I30 to HWY 161 north to the new office. This has the least potential traffic jam problems. Alternate route right through downtown FW, up the cursed Airport Freeway past DFW Airport then on to Las Colinas.

I am thinking of looking for a different job .....I hate looking for work.