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« on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 07:42:48 »
The longest commute I've had was 35-40 minutes. Recently I moved very close to work so now my commute is only 6 minutes.

How bad is YOUR commute?
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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 07:46:16 »
If I have to go into the office during normal commute times it has taken anywhere from 1 hour to 2.5 hours.  Typically it's an hour and a little change, but accidents happen pretty often on the main road I use and that quickly adds a whole lot of time.

If I can avoid rush hour, it takes about 35-40 minutes.  If I don't have to go in at all (97% of the time, woohoo!) then I just mozy on over to my desk and turn on the laptop.
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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 08:06:30 »
Last place: 1 hour + on the way home (20 minutes if there is no traffic)

New place: 45 min.



walking. 5 min. driving.
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« Reply #3 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 08:26:17 »
It is about 15 feet from my bedroom door to the door of my home office.  So, not bad at all!

30-45 minutes driving was the worst I ever had it.
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« Reply #4 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 08:39:40 »
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If I have to go into the office during normal commute times it has taken anywhere from 1 hour to 2.5 hours.  Typically it's an hour and a little change, but accidents happen pretty often on the main road I use and that quickly adds a whole lot of time.

If I can avoid rush hour, it takes about 35-40 minutes.

you live Trinidad by chance? :D
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« Reply #5 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 08:51:40 »
New England... Nothing quite like unplanned tightly packed urbanization surrounded by lots of farmy-land that no one wants to damage.  So you get my favorite highway as long as there's no idiots on it... which means at around 2am it's safe.  It's twisty and until the most recent few years of renovations had little to no shoulder on either side and no where to pull off if you blow a tire or hamburger a deer.  No large vehicles allowed, although with the event of blindly following the GPS it's amazing how many you see stuck near or under a low bridge.  Most people ignore the speed limit entirely, but that's painful because they ignore it in both directions to equal extremes.  So you end up with 50+mph speed differentials between the 2 lanes sometimes.  When there's a car accident it's a multi-car major mess.  When there's a tractor trailer stuck under a bridge they close down that direction for at least 45 minutes.
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« Reply #7 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 10:22:57 »
1hr 15 mins - I go the scenic route.

Same amount of time on the motorway -- too busy and too much roadworks for my liking at the moment. They were going to add another lane 3 > 4 + shoulders but now they doing it the budget way and are in process  part-time open the shoulders and they are installing some gantry signs. Totally pointless, like if cars only break down part time! This is the M1 J11-13 for people in the UK.

My worst time was 6 hours, due to an accident on the Motorway, been going the scenic route ever since.

Will only be going in 2 days/week shortly!
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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 10:47:32 »
I had a teacher who taught at two schools and twice a week made a 2+ hour commute.
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« Reply #9 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 11:40:03 »
1 hour cycling (my new job I got today).
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« Reply #10 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 11:48:26 »
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1 hour cycling (my new job I got today).


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« Reply #11 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 11:55:45 »
Over the summer had a 40mins cycle.
Previously around an hour in total (walk to bus stop, take bus, walk other end aswell)
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« Reply #12 on: Fri, 06 January 2012, 12:04:26 »
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« Reply #13 on: Sat, 07 January 2012, 14:47:48 »
My previous commute was between 2 and 2.5 hours ONE WAY.  I had averaged around 4 hours of commuting per day, I was miserable to say the least. I am not a good commuter person. The sad part is it was under 100 miles round trip. So Cal traffic bites!

I am very fortunate to be working many times closer than that now. I can be at this new job in the same time it took just to get to the freeway entrance for my last job. But I have to work around 30-40% more.  =S

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I should probably mention that on a few occasions the commute was over 5 hours total. But my longest commute mileage wise was just under 200, around 180 something, that was when I was working 3 jobs a day. Oddly I lucked out and the commute didn't take proportionally as long, LoL, figures.  =S
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« Reply #14 on: Sat, 07 January 2012, 16:42:54 »
Hmm, depending on which side of building class is or in which building a 3mins to 10mins... :(
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« Reply #15 on: Sun, 08 January 2012, 14:53:13 »
1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes on a public bus.
Not able to sit.

Every day.
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« Reply #16 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 20:26:30 »
shortest - 40 min
longest 2-3 hours depending on snow/traffic

I dont mind though recently as I just bought a 2011 VW Golf GTI
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« Reply #17 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 20:50:07 »
Apparently none of you has ever commuted in Bangkok.  One of the worst places to be for commuters.  I've lived there for a few years and man, sometimes to commute half a mile it would take up to 2 - 3 hours and that's the norm for them.  The only way to get around is on a motorcycle (got me a Japanese spec FZR400RR while I was there).

Here's what a typical rush hour looks like in BKK.

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« Reply #18 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 21:02:03 »
^ no picture :-(
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« Reply #19 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 21:12:50 »
I almost ended up with a job that had just shy of a 2 hour commute, in retrospect I'm glad I didn't. But I did still have a 45minute commute for my summer job which was bad enough when you topped on 11 hour work days.
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« Reply #20 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 21:22:06 »
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^ no picture :-(

I fixed it.  Can you see it now?
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« Reply #21 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 21:24:50 »
^ fixed
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« Reply #22 on: Mon, 16 January 2012, 01:49:22 »
This week I worked 7 days and throughout the week cycled 140~ miles.
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« Reply #23 on: Mon, 16 January 2012, 02:00:46 »
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1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes on a public bus.
Not able to sit.

Every day.

Not able to sit for 1h, you shall quit man
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« Reply #24 on: Mon, 16 January 2012, 02:13:21 »
I commute 30-40 mins everyday via my bike to my work place (40km away)

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« Reply #25 on: Mon, 16 January 2012, 02:24:08 »
For a while, I did a 120 mile, 1.5 hour drive each way between San Diego to work in L.A. I would be flying in my silly 944 or awesome RX-7 modified by the Mazda Racing Division. Then, I got smart and finally moved to L.A. and was commuting only 20 miles freeway but took 50 mins consistently. No accidents because at those slow speeds there just weren't any. Then I got smarter and robbed a bank and quit commuting entirely.

Commuting regularly B-L-O-W-S like a hooker with sharp teeth.
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« Reply #26 on: Thu, 19 January 2012, 17:48:32 »
2.6 miles via a bike takes about 10-15 minutes depending on the weather one way.  While it is a super short commute,  today had a -20F wind chill on the way to work.  This is generally a better choice than the bus which can take around 30 minutes, but I still take the public transit if it is raining bad or something.  

I work at a University and don't have a parking spot, but the wife takes our shared car to work everyday so I never cared anyway.

So I don't win I guess.
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« Reply #27 on: Thu, 19 January 2012, 18:47:20 »
1st Semester of Sophomore year in College.

Woke up at 5 am to drive to school through traffic by 8, ended class and came home at 11 pm. Went to bed at 1 am after hw. Hibernate during weekends. Having to drink Coffee that didn't work too well was the worst.

Blew my entire savings next semester on security deposit and rent on an apartment 7 mins biking distance away.
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« Reply #28 on: Tue, 21 February 2012, 11:59:21 »
First co-op term, engineering student. 1hr 45m over two buses. Thankfully, I do get a seat the whole way... which means I'm out like a light.
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« Reply #29 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 00:56:05 »
last commute was 200 miles round trip (about 3 1/2 hrs)

now commute is 6 blocks by foot, maybe 10 minutes?
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« Reply #30 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 11:14:22 »
current commute is 12-15 minutes.  previous commute was 22-25 minutes.  one of my coworkers commutes over 60 miles from well south of dallas to here which is north of fort worth.
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« Reply #31 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 11:38:06 »
Created a poll for this topic - please vote!

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?27700-How-bad-is-YOUR-commute
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« Reply #32 on: Sat, 25 February 2012, 21:54:22 »
To my high school, it takes a measly 5 minutes. I hope to work there this summer to help the IT guy rewire all the CAT-6 in the ENTIRE school and add all in one power over ethernet Meraki access points.They are indeed a nice setup for an access point in any enterprise environment.
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