Commuting to work - how long, from where??

Kersh

So how long does it take you to get to work and back again each day. By car or public transport. Where do you start, and where do you finish. Is it a long commute/no traffic or a short hop/standstill. Just wondering.
Takes me about an hour, from Swords to Clondlakin by car.

xzanti

With no traffic 10 minutes... In traffic anything from 15 to 45 minutes... I go from Dublin 6W to Merrion Square..

Or I could walk it in 45 mins but Iv gotten lazy lately...

LundiMardi

err, about 5 minutes, i start work at 8.30, i get out of bed at 8.20:)

Töpher

Bray to Abbey Street.

35 minute walk to train station. 40 minute train ride. 3 minute walk. Best part of an hour and a half usually.

Like Lundi mardi
From the moment I leave the house, it takes about 1 minute

TerrorFirmer

Usually about half hour on the bus each way. Depends on what time I leave obviously, but the best time I manage is about 20 minutes, worst on occassion has been as bad as over an hour...

And that's from Oranmore to Galway, because we don't all live in Dublin

Mexicola

xzanti wrote:

With no traffic 10 minutes... In traffic anything from 15 to 45 minutes... I go from Dublin 6W to Merrion Square..

Or I could walk it in 45 mins but Iv gotten lazy lately...

So you would rather sit in traffic for the same amount of time as it takes to walk...? :rolleyes:

connundrum

On a good day, 50 minutes . On a bad day, 1hr 20 minutes . Travelling from Whitehall to Harcourt St, 2 busses.

When I used to go to Ballyfermot college I lived in Laois, and then moved to Phibsboro 'for the convenience'. Driving from Laois took 1hr 10 minutes, bussing in from Phibsboro could take up to 1hr 45 minutes - a difference of 45 miles.. where's the sense?

magpie

From bedroom to office in other bedroom - approximately 3 seconds.

Loomis

There and back?
Well I leave the house at 6:15 and arrive in Dublin for about 7:30.Usually get breakfast and then head to work in Clontarf arriving between 8:15 and 8:30.Then I either leave at 4:50 or 8:50 arriving home anywhere from 6-6:30 or 9pm.
So depending on when I finish in the evening there and back it's 3 - 3 1/2 hours everyday

japanpaul

Rathfarnham to Parkwest which is 7 km.
If I work 8 - 5 then I go by car and it takes 25 mins going and 35 coming home.
If I decide to work from 9 then I usually go by motorbike and it takes 15 mins each way.

xzanti

Mexicola wrote:

So you would rather sit in traffic for the same amount of time as it takes to walk...? :rolleyes:

Well its rare that I would be sitting in traffic for 45 minutes, for the most part its only a 20 minute drive.. So yes I would rather drive in my nice warm car than walk in the weather we've been having lately.. If thats ok with you

Civilian_Target

15 mins walk.

When I was in Dublin it was 15 mins cycle, or anything between 10-30 mins if you went by bus, depending on routes and how long you were waiting

Cars? Pah

R0ot

From buncrana in donegal to derry city, about 30-50 mins by bus depending on traffic and wether or not the council are messing about on the roads

thelordofcheese

40-ish minutes to walk. 15 or so to cycle.

Going from Glasnevin to near the jervis centre.

Kersh

Anyone come from as far away as Cavan/Meath border to Dublin??

pan

From Drumcondra to Prease St (city centre) about 12 mins by bicycle
I just love whissing by all the people stuck in traffic

Mossy Monk

20 minutes in, 15 minutes home

Voodu Child

30min in the car...up the M50 and onto the N7. start at 7.30 when all you lazy nerds are still in bed...lucky me..

What a boring thread..:rolleyes:

Kersh

Ya answered it didnt you??? :rolleyes:

Voodu Child

Kersh wrote:

Ya answered it didnt you???

Cos im bored...:p

Kersh

ditto, and thinking of moving house, so i want all the commute times....:)

skywalker

connundrum wrote:

On a good day, 50 minutes . On a bad day, 1hr 20 minutes . Travelling from Whitehall to Harcourt St, 2 busses.

When I used to go to Ballyfermot college I lived in Laois, and then moved to Phibsboro 'for the convenience'. Driving from Laois took 1hr 10 minutes, bussing in from Phibsboro could take up to 1hr 45 minutes - a difference of 45 miles.. where's the sense?

You could probly shave some time off that by using the 16. I go a similar route. Am alternating between the 16 & the 20b. Its a bit hit n miss.

Kermitt

45 min by car from Brannockstown to Maynooth, Soon to be 1hr 15min from Portarlington as soon as my feckin extension gets built. I take back roads because traffic is just woeful.

Stephen

15-20 minutes by car
Work is about 12 miles from home (Kilkenny).

I pity all you poor bastards spending hours commuting a handful of miles in and out of Dublin.

ZiabR

I start work at 9am and i get up at 8:15am. Shower, breakfast etc and then leave the house at 8:55am and drive 3 minutes up the road to work.

Terry

depends where i'm working.
anything from 3 seconds to 3 hours.

pontovic

I leave my house at ten past six in the morning and it takes me 40-50 mins to get into citywest, 35km from where I live ( Howth ), so thats on the N32, M50, and then the N7. Pretty good timing theres nothing on the roads at this hour. I start work at 7 and finish at 3. Normally it takes me an hour to get home after that. Not too bad I suppose but if I didnt have flexitime id be screwed.

ivan087

greystones to bray. 10 minute drive. 2 minute traffic coming up to the southern cross. i couldnt handle an hour or more in traffic every morning and then the same again in the evening. i finish work at 5.30 and by 5.45 im sitting down and relaxing. those people have my sympthy. but id crack up!:(

giggles

Swords to City Centre (Mount St) averages around an hour by car during the school days .. Roll on the summer

idontknowmyname

I have a 20 min walk to the train station, then almost an hour on a packed commuter train from Balbriggan, then a 5 min walk to work. Same on the way back but train isn't packed as I get on at Pearse which is the first stop

Sleepy

10 minute walk including a stop to buy breakfast.

Commuting out to Tallaght (from Deansgrange) for a course this week and it's killing me. I've no idea how anyone could happily spend an hour and a half getting into work all the time! I'm completely shattered.

sasal

Tallaght to Stepthen St at 07.00. Anything from 45 min to 1hr 30min. Its a lottery. Roll on the summer. Might take it back 30min.

John2002

Between and hour and an hour and a half each way - currently commuting between Limerick and Galway.

Pepe LeFrits

35 min walk, or 15 mins by tube. Saff London into Bank, if you know your Londinium.

seamus

Lucan East to Lucan West by car. 5 minutes.

And before anyone complains, I need the car for work. I'd cycle (or motorbike) otherwise.

Gary ITR

Ah the life of a company rep, as soon as i turn on my phone I'm in work:D

Aporia

6 minute walk to work and school - a 30 minute drive/bus journey.

Usually if I can't get a lift from my mom, I've to get the 8 o clock bus into town which means I've to get up at 6 'cause it takes me 2 hours to get ready. :eek:

RuggieBear

15min walk for me
13min walk for girlfriend

rsta

giggles wrote:

Swords to City Centre (Mount St) averages around an hour by car during the school days .. Roll on the summer

lol i hear ya, roll on the school holiers, i love it when the roads are clear, cuts the drive time in half :cool:

byte

about 40-50 minutes each way.

kc66

Trim to Citywest- 50-60mins each way. Start at 7.30 thank God because if I started much later it would add on significantly to the drive

Cosine

10 min walk to bus stop 10 ride or I could walk it in about 40 minuts

Maynooth to Lexlip

dead air

From Balbriggan to the IFSC, about 45 mins on average on the train.

RoundyMooney

10 seconds. I am paid from home as it were.

rainbow kirby

College is usually about 1 hr 15 minutes, by bus. (Firhouse to UCD)
Work is about 10-15 minutes by bus (Firhouse to the Square)

angeldelight

College is an hour and 15 in the morning, an hour and a half home, that's on the bus and the walk to the bus stop on either end is only about 6/7 minutes

Maynooth to Stephen's Green

KTRIC

I drive from Walkinstown to Eastpoint, takes me 20 minutes on my bike.

Loomis

Kersh wrote:

Anyone come from as far away as Cavan/Meath border to Dublin??

Kells

LegacyUser

I 'COMMUTE' from Whitehall, D9, to Sandymount, D4, and it takes on average 1hr - 1hr 15minutes to get there!

I used to work in Sandyford and there was mornings where is could take anywhere up to 2 hours to get there!!!

Now that was just ridiculous!!!

We really need better link up routes from North side to South Side.

magpie

I 'COMMUTE' from Whitehall, D9, to Sandymount, D4

Why don't you just buy a house in Sandymount?