How Far/long Is Your commute To Work?

moodyblue

Just curious as how is the commute for people into Dublin everyday.

Would like to hear from anyone who lives outside Dublin and travels to/from there everyday.

OfflerCrocGod

From Blanchardstown to UCD about 1 hour and 30 mins every morning and back - I spend upwards of 3 hours on the bus everyday. What a waste of time.

monkeyfudge

10 minute walk from Artane to Coolock... phew...

KdjaCL

15 minutes bus from clondalkin to inchicore anymore and i would leave.

kdjac

regeneration

Last job was:
20 minutes train from landsdowne road station (lived beside the station) to east point business park.
Then company moved to santry business park and it became roughly a 50-60 minute trip (train to city centre, then 41 bus to santry). Ergh that was a killer. Going home took forever.
Now Im working outside of Dublin, and have a pleasent 30 minute walk in and out every day. Very healthy.

Lenny

takes 15 minms to get to work, luas for 10 and walk for 5
then about 20 mins home lift
used to be 3.5hours to and from in my old job
that was from tallaght to ballsbridge

nellieswellies

Live in Newbridge work in D4, I drive up via Rathfarnam (have to drop my girlfriend off and pick her up in the evenings) takes 1 1/4 hours in the morning and most evenings.

You can do it in about the same with the Train/Luas & Dart in the mornings but its not as cost effective as the girlfriend would be driving up most of the way every day anyway.

LoneGunM@n

At the moment I'm doing Tallaght to Ranelagh in between 35 mins & 1 hour.

When I move to Navan, It'll take about 1hr45mins each way ... fecking Blanchardstown is the problem :mad:

bringitdown

5 mins on a bike from Ranelagh to Baggot St.

Contemplating buying a cardboard box in the commuter belt (Drogheda, Kilcock etc) but don't know how I'd manage the commute!
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Xterminator

Well i'm commuting from North dublin via Town to Tallaght and back again every day.

4 hrs a day wasted!!!!

X

Dingatron

Would be nice to see a mileage poll on this. I love polls I do.

35-45 mins from Drogheda to Dublin Airport. Thank god for the M1. It used to be 60-90+.

Chalk

sutton to swords via motorbike
20-25 mins depending on traffic lights / railway crossings
think it works out to 9 miles or thereabouts

fletch

Mornings 1.5 hrs - Clonsilla -> Sandyford, 15min walk, train, dart, feeder bus
Evenings 2hrs - Feeder Bus - Dárt - 25min wait for next train - 15min walk home.
Thats everything going to plan tho...miss a train, bus leaves early, etc.... & my commute time quickly runs into 5hours :-(

seamus

Xterminator wrote:

Well i'm commuting from North dublin via Town to Tallaght and back again every day.

4 hrs a day wasted!!!!

X

Would the M50 not be a better idea? Sure you'll get stuck around the toll bridge, but the rest of the commute would tear along. Or are you bussing it?

Personally, I'm Lucan -> Harcourt Street on a motorbike. 25-30 mins for about 7 miles. At least 10 of those minutes is spent waiting at traffic lights.

laoisfan

I commute from Laois (from Borris-In-Ossory area) to Eastpoint Business Park, Dublin each day.

Morning: Get bus at 6:25am in Mountrath, Laois. Get to O'Connell Bridge around 8:15am (latest). Walk down and get bus near Tara St. Bridge (Liberty Hall side) and get bus out to Annesley Bridge. Walk from there to Eastpoint Business Park. Usually arrive in work about 8:45am - 9:00am depending on traffice etc etc.

Evening: Reverse journey. Leave work about 5:15pm. Usually get 6:30pm Limerick Bus. Get home about 8:30/8:45pm. If I am lucky enough to see a driver on the 6pm non-stop Limerick I will get home for about 8pm as he will drop me off in Mountrath.

So what did y'all think?

--laoisfan

laoisfan

Would the M50 not be a better idea?

The M50 is nothing more than a carpark!!

--laoisfan

civdef

Train from Laois to Dublin daily.

Leave house at 0625, normally in the door of the office around 0845. Out at 1730, home around 2000.

fletch

laoisfan wrote:

So what did y'all think?

Get a new job, or get a place in Dublin to stay during the week & go home at the weekends. God I thoughy my commute was bad!

laoisfan

will be starting eWorking on thursday 28th oct (2 days @ home) so not all bad

Get a new job, or get a place in Dublin to stay during the week & go home at the weekends. God I thoughy my commute was bad!around 2000.

am from portlaoise origionally. wife & i got the opportunity to buy a house with land outside of portlaoise (unfortuately, limerick side of laois and not dublin side) for reasonable money.
yes - i guess we are mad for the commute we do - but hey, you would be surprised at people do!! we are not the only people who do it plus it can be just as bad in dublin sometimes (though not all the time i guess).

--laoisfan

Sleepy

Christ, you people are insane! I couldn't handle more than half an hour of a commute in the mornings, I'd go round the bed. Living in Stillorgan, working in Deansgrange - 15 mins cycle to work and the 46A gets me there in about 20ish if it's raining.

irlirishkev

I used to get the DART from Greystones to Clontarf Road. Leave the house at 7.30am and be in East Point Business Park for 9am. Homeward bound, I'd get the 5.40pm DART (which is always late without fail) and get home about 7pm.

I've bought a place in the city centre now, and I leave at 8.45am to get in to East Point Business Park for 9am. I cycle in in 15 mins. I'm home before 5.30pm. It's such a relief after spending so much time over so many years on the DART.

Kevin.

Sposs

laoisfan wrote:

I commute from Laois (from Borris-In-Ossory area) to Eastpoint Business Park, Dublin each day.

Morning: Get bus at 6:25am in Mountrath, Laois. Get to O'Connell Bridge around 8:15am (latest). Walk down and get bus near Tara St. Bridge (Liberty Hall side) and get bus out to Annesley Bridge. Walk from there to Eastpoint Business Park. Usually arrive in work about 8:45am - 9:00am depending on traffice etc etc.

Evening: Reverse journey. Leave work about 5:15pm. Usually get 6:30pm Limerick Bus. Get home about 8:30/8:45pm. If I am lucky enough to see a driver on the 6pm non-stop Limerick I will get home for about 8pm as he will drop me off in Mountrath.

So what did y'all think?




--laoisfan

I think your bonkers,would you not look at moving jobs or house?

ixoy

When it was Sutton --> Clonskeagh, I'd leave @ 08:15. Car trip + DARTv + Shuttle bus... be in for 09:25.
In evenings, leave at 17:30. Shuttle bus + DART + Walk .. be home for about 18:50.

Nowadays, City Centre --> Clonskeagh. Leave @ 08:25. DART + Shuttle bus ... be in for 09:00.
In evenings, leave at 17:20. Shuttle bus + DART ... be home for about 18:05.

rainbow kirby

I commute 1 hour and 10 minutes to college (Firhouse to UCD) and 10 minutes to work from where I live.

nahdoic

I fall out of bed. Put on my slippers. Walk down stairs into the office. 'The slipper commute'.

monkeyfudge

I used to work in Dun Laoghaire... I had to get a bus, a dart and then another bus for good measure...

Dingatron

I fall out of bed. Put on my slippers. Walk down stairs into the office. 'The slipper commute'.

That's the kind of commuting I'd like although I'm not sure how much work I'd get done.

nahdoic

Works great for me! You have to have hardwire an 'on' and 'off' switch into your brain though, so when you're working you concentrate totally on the work to the exclusion of everything else. Then when you finish work, concentrate on relaxing to the complete exclusion of working. Takes a bit of discipline!

The bit i love is being able to take some mornings off if there's no emergency and go to the gym and just work later that evening to make up for it.

Right that's my 5 min break on baords over - back to work.

FX Meister

Used to be 2 miles to East point and it took about 15mins. Now it's 9 miles to where I work and it takes about 30 mins. I'm thinking of getting a house in Lusk though and not looking forward to the commute so much, but then I can just come to work early and avoid traffic.

the_syco

Currently I'm looking for a job :rolleyes: but my last job...

40 minute 66X (8.10am) bus from Leixlip to Dublin (8:50am @ Heuston Station), and a 5 minute walk to work (9am; usualy had to pop in to a shop for a lucozade). If I didn't get the 66X, and got the normal 66, the bus in would be anywhere between 40 and 70 minutes, depending on traffic (and depending on how many parents were bringing their kids to school by car).
Going home, it took about 1 hour.

Agent Smith

about 15 min's, 5 by car, no even

cajun_tiger

leave my house at 8.45 get to work at 10.20

logic1

cajun_tiger wrote:

leave my house at 8.45 get to work at 10.20

What time could you be at my house by?

.logic.

penexpers

35 minutes on the train then 15-20 minute walk. Should change to 40 minutes on the train and a 5 minute walk soon enough though.

C Fodder

Used to do a commute towards the end of a project form mid Roscommon to Poolbeg 103 miles daily each way. Did it for 12 weeks but found it easier on the system than living in Dublin. Rathmines nearly did my head in. Now about 3 mins and I late nearly every day the last 2 months.

Borzoi

45-50 Minutes usually gets me in. 20-25 mins gets me home. Same route!

Swarfboy

60 miles each way.... surpisingly only 1hr 15mins....Living in Tullamore since my son was born... glad to be away from Dublin...and have half the mortgage of the rest of ye....Hope all ye dubs love sittin in the traffic... one prob I don't have... although I do stay up twice a week... but am in work at 7 and leave after 8...

cajun_tiger

logic1 wrote:

What time could you be at my house by?

.logic.

give me a map and we will find out

pebble

13 miles in London, depending on traffic, anywhere from 20 minutes to 90 minutes...

logic1

cajun_tiger wrote:

give me a map and we will find out

No way, you could be a weirdo. Then I'd never get you out of my house. You'd probably stalk me cause I'm very stalkable... then again I might like to have a stalker.

.logic.

cajun_tiger

logic I'm very sorry to say this but.... I'm already stalking someone so when I finish with them or they get a restraining order I'll give you a shout ok?

logic1

cajun_tiger wrote:

logic I'm very sorry to say this but.... I'm already stalking someone so when I finish with them or they get a restraining order I'll give you a shout ok?

No don't give me a shout, that's the whole point of stalking. You have alot to learn.

.logic.

cajun_tiger

maybe thats were i've been going wrong all these years thank you for opening my eyes

RicardoSmith

D.15 to Pearse, about 40 mins on the train, and then 10-20mins walking either end. Plus about 10 mins waiting on the train.

The bus takes an hour and a half plus 20 mins walking.

New job has parking, so will talk 35-90mins depeneding on traffic.

gazzer

Up till a couple of months ago i commuted from Mulhuddart to Ballsbridge. If i left the house at 8.20am i would get into O'Connell St for around 9.30... then depending on if the 9.35 number 7 bus left in time i would get into work for 9.55.
Some mornings though i could leave the house at 8am and not get to work till around 10.10.... Ballsbridge buses are really bad... there is always a ton of people waiting for them.

Going home would take about 90 minutes or so.

Nowadays i work in town so it is just one bus in which takes around an hour to and from work.

MiniMcGee

Leave my house at 7am, walk to train station - 10 mins, sit on train to Dublin - 1 hr 45 mins, then walk from Pearse to work - 15 mins. Total time - 2hrs 10 mins...then do it all again in the evening :eek:

pablo21

Mullingar to Leixlip. Worst case 1 hr, best 1/2 hr.

vibe666

lower mount st to ballycoolin ind. park.

leave at 6:45am, walk to hawkins st. get the 38a to ballycoolin get in at 8am.

not great, but could be worse i suppose.

pickarooney

Seven minutes on the bike, door to door. Not in Dublin.

eth0_

Drogheda to the IFSC. One hour on train.

frodi

Ballyboden to Kimmage, just over 4 miles 10 -15 minutes on motorbike.