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#4168613 - 09/14/15 01:26 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4168621 - 09/14/15 02:01 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Sigh. Today was really a bad traffic day. 1:15 drive to work.
Usually around 45-55 minutes


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#4168622 - 09/14/15 02:03 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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10-15 minutes by foot. 20-30 in summer time because, well, it's summer.

That's the good thing about small cities, pretty much everything is at walking distance.


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#4168623 - 09/14/15 02:04 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: Bill_Grant]  
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Originally Posted By: Bill_Grant
Sigh. Today was really a bad traffic day. 1:15 drive to work.
Usually around 45-55 minutes


Dallas and Houston are probably the worst for traffic in the entire State!


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#4168630 - 09/14/15 02:27 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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~20mins door to door, 17 of those spent on short distance rail (innercity rail). It's on time and usually very empty, so I enjoy it.

Couldn't do certain subway lines at certain times of day though, would have to get a car then or pedal to work...

#4168631 - 09/14/15 02:33 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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It was 18-20 minutes for 11 miles on city and county roads. Now I'm semi-retired so ... who wants to work?

Before that I worked from home for 10 years and had a 32 step commute.

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#4168633 - 09/14/15 02:35 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: NavyNuke99]  
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Originally Posted By: NavyNuke99

I drive, because Raleigh hates cyclists, there are no shoulders for most of the route, and I don't want to die.

For sure. I rode home from Raleigh once last Fall. Not a great town for bikes. I eventually went thru Umstead Park and pieced together a bunch of greenways to the Tobacco Trail. Took forever.

When I worked at UNC, I rode my bike almost every day for years, usually before the sun was up. Really miss that. Where I worked had a locker room and showers, so I was set even in bad or hot weather. If I was feeling lazy, I'ld ride my clapped-out Ninja250, or even take the free bus. But loved the bicycle most.

Now I drive to Burlington, about a 30 minute commute. Traffic is not bad that way. At least I can listen to music or podcasts and relax a bit.

#4168656 - 09/14/15 03:01 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Takes me 20-30 mins on average, depending on traffic, for roughly 20 miles. Longest commute I've had in years.
Best was when I lived a mile from my office in the late 90s. smile I always had to drive, though, as I had to go visit customers all over 3 counties and I used my own car for it.



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#4168658 - 09/14/15 03:02 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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20 minute walk. It's not a pleasant walk, but it's cheap.

#4168659 - 09/14/15 03:02 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: Alicatt]  
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Originally Posted By: Alicatt
Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted By: oldgrognard
but the pay stinks.
That's why you have those cool things called "investments". smile

Heh, I wish I had an income good enough from investments whereby I could quit my day job!

You have to work at it wink
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#4168774 - 09/14/15 07:00 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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30 min (10km) cycle each way. Haven't been prevented from doing otherwise by weather, illness, injury or alcohol for over six years.

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#4168787 - 09/14/15 07:15 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Normally around 40 minutes door to door. 30-35 minute drive and a short walk from the car park to work through some nice gardens and across a scenic river.

I have to go on a short stretch of road which is very vulnerable to accidents, roadworks, queues etc. On a bad day it can be 90 minutes, but there are alternate routes I can try.

However, I also work some evenings and weekends, and it can take as little as 20 minutes. Bliss!

#4168789 - 09/14/15 07:18 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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15 minutes, unless there is yet another gas leak on the A5, in which case half an hour.

#4168791 - 09/14/15 07:20 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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12-15 minutes. smile


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#4168811 - 09/14/15 08:00 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Interesting timing for this thread...

For the last 7 years I lived ~10 miles from work. It usually took 15-20 mins to get to work in the morning, and, with horrible SF Bay Area traffic, could be 20 min-50 min to get home depending on what time I left and how bad traffic was that day.

I just accepted a relocation offer to Irvine, CA, and we siezed the opportunity to move very close to my wife's family in northern San Diego county. Housing is much cheaper than in the Bay Area, it's a nice place to live, and our kids can be close to their grandparents and cousins. It's a place we felt like we'd be happy living for a very long time. The down side: It's about a 50 min drive each way if I choose to drive to work. I've been taking the train, but that amounts to about 90 minutes door to door. I can work for about 45 minutes of that time on the train and shorten my overall day at the office (so far), but I'm not sure how long I'll be able to get away with that.

It's been sucky not getting to see my kids before I leave work in the morning. I'm committed to my current company for 2 years, and then there's the possibility that I can try to find something closer to home. We'll see how it plays out.


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#4168816 - 09/14/15 08:07 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4168831 - 09/14/15 08:42 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: malibu43]  
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Originally Posted By: malibu43
Interesting timing for this thread...

For the last 7 years I lived ~10 miles from work. It usually took 15-20 mins to get to work in the morning, and, with horrible SF Bay Area traffic, could be 20 min-50 min to get home depending on what time I left and how bad traffic was that day.

I just accepted a relocation offer to Irvine, CA, and we siezed the opportunity to move very close to my wife's family in northern San Diego county. Housing is much cheaper than in the Bay Area, it's a nice place to live, and our kids can be close to their grandparents and cousins. It's a place we felt like we'd be happy living for a very long time. The down side: It's about a 50 min drive each way if I choose to drive to work. I've been taking the train, but that amounts to about 90 minutes door to door. I can work for about 45 minutes of that time on the train and shorten my overall day at the office (so far), but I'm not sure how long I'll be able to get away with that.

It's been sucky not getting to see my kids before I leave work in the morning. I'm committed to my current company for 2 years, and then there's the possibility that I can try to find something closer to home. We'll see how it plays out.


The drive/train ride past Pendleton on the way home does offer some nice views, though...



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#4168855 - 09/14/15 09:40 PM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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For the last two years about an hour and 20 minutes each way. Only 32 miles, its the darn traffic. Really started to take a toll on my nerves. I am on long term disability right now fighting colon cancer. Hope to be back to work this time next year. I sometimes wonder if the stress of the commute is what made me sick.

#4168975 - 09/15/15 04:12 AM Re: Work commutes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Right at 30 minutes both ways. 2/3rd is country roads, and 1/3 is a four lane highway to the airport.

Adjust time + 10-20 minutes in the winter with snow or ice...lol.


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#4169006 - 09/15/15 07:40 AM Re: Work commutes [Re: Weasel_Keeper]  
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Originally Posted By: Weasel_Keeper
Right at 30 minutes both ways. 2/3rd is country roads, and 1/3 is a four lane highway to the airport.

Adjust time + 10-20 minutes in the winter with snow or ice...lol.

When I first started working I had a 21 mile each way commute from Wick to Scrabster Harbour in the region of about 25 minutes or so, in the winter Jan/Feb/Mar time the direct road could get blocked with snow so you would have to go round the coast road as the salt air there would keep the road open longer but it was around 40 miles going that way.

found an interesting article on one of the worst blizzards we had, with up to 22 helicopters running SAR.

http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib202.htm


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