Commuting Times

kormak

What distance do people from this forum commute on a daily basis?
And how long do they spend from home to workplace and back home in their cars, buses, trains, etc...

Just curious about this... Mine is a heartbreaking 76 miles roundtrip and usually involves 2 to 2hrs10mins travel time per day (if I'm lucky!)

cournioni

From Dundalk to work is 30 minutes each way on the button. Used to be 1 hour to and from Cavan this time last year.

The missus commute is just over an hour on Matthews coaches.

MugMugs

Generally 50 minutes there and 60 back (heavier foot in the morning) and 106 miles on the nose and I fecking well love it.

sparkthatbled

Drogheda-Tallaght-Drogheda every day. Petrol is a killer... I don't mind the drive, to be honest. Maybe i should swap my car for a hybrid!

kormak

sparkthatbled wrote: »

Drogheda-Tallaght-Drogheda every day. Petrol is a killer... I don't mind the drive, to be honest. Maybe i should swap my car for a hybrid!

do you use the M50 toll everyday? that must add up...!

kormak

MugMugs wrote: »

Generally 50 minutes there and 60 back (heavier foot in the morning) and 106 miles on the nose and I fecking well love it.

106 a day?! now I don't fell so bad... :pac:

MugMugs

kormak wrote: »

106 a day?! now I don't fell so bad... :pac:

My only real issue tbh is the cost of Diesel as my commute isn't covered by work as it's not associated with work. To be fair, you get very used to it very quickly. I just stock the iPod up with some new music every month and have started listening to Verbal books too.

Pauvre Con

kormak wrote: »

do you use the M50 toll everyday? that must add up...!

Yeah, one of the reasons I gave up a contract in South Dublin earlier this year was the combined expense of petrol and M50 toll. Spending over 500 EUR per month just to get to work is taking the piss....

sparkthatbled

kormak wrote: »

do you use the M50 toll everyday? that must add up...!

I do but i have the tag which eases the pain slightly. I also avoid the M1 toll and Lissenhall traffic jams by going via Duleek/Ashbourne.

kormak

MugMugs wrote: »

My only real issue tbh is the cost of Diesel as my commute isn't covered by work as it's not associated with work. To be fair, you get very used to it very quickly. I just stock the iPod up with some new music every month and have started listening to Verbal books too.

ah I no you get used to it.. I've been doing it now for nearly 6 years!!
it does start to wreck the head sometimes though.
New music, last.fm streaming, Matt Cooper, Newstalk, even LMFM breakfast show for ****s n giggles is how I fil my time.

gipi

Kormak,

I commute 60 miles each day, and during school term that can take between 2.5 and 3 hrs per day (so I don't travel as far as you but it takes longer!). In the summer, it can be under 2 hrs.

Hope that didn't sound too competitive - I didn't mean it to!!

Antibac

Drogheda-clondalkin-Drogheda. Takes about 50 min to an hour. Petrol is a killer

longhalloween

Northside of Drogheda to Southside of Drogheda. 12 minutes going the long way or 6 minutes if I go through the toll.

positron

MugMugs wrote: »

Generally 50 minutes there and 60 back (heavier foot in the morning) and 106 miles on the nose and I fecking well love it.

That's pretty good time for the distance you are doing, is it all motorway? +1 to audio books and podcasts too. Well narrated audio books can be brilliantly engaging and captivating.

gipi wrote: »

I commute 60 miles each day, and during school term that can take between 2.5 and 3 hrs per day (so I don't travel as far as you but it takes longer!). In the summer, it can be under 2 hrs.

Is that an 1.5 hours each way on the motorbike? My fingertips are burning just imagining that.

I used to be regular Drogheda-Connolly-Drogheda train commuter from 2005 to 2010. And it used to take me 1h30m each way, door to door. I switched to motorbike, and now the same commute takes me about 45-50 mins each way. A lot more expensive than the train considering fuel, gear, maintenance, insurance etc etc - it quickly adds up, and more risks etc too. But on the plus side, I can go and come when it suits me, "free" parking right outside office building, and of course an hour saved per day etc etc.

My ideal work commute would be 20 mins / few miles on a pedal/road bike, but unfortunately nothing like that around Drogheda for me (with my current skillset.. err or the lack of other skillsets... ).

gipi

No, Positron, I'm still commuting on 4 wheels at the moment! Journey into Dublin can take anything from 70-90 mins (occasionally worse), and coming home is 60-80 mins.

Dingatron

Drogheda - Airport - Drogheda. Around 50 miles a day and 35-40 minutes each way. Used to take 1.5+ hours before the M1.

kormak

longhalloween wrote: »

Northside of Drogheda to Southside of Drogheda. 12 minutes going the long way or 6 minutes if I go through the toll.

Errrghhh!!! *shakes fist*

kormak

Dingatron wrote: »

Drogheda - Airport - Drogheda. Around 50 miles a day and 35-40 minutes each way. Used to take 1.5+ hours before the M1.

That would suit me just fine... ps might even be quicker when the new 3-lane M1 superhighway is completed!!

MugMugs

positron wrote: »

That's pretty good time for the distance you are doing, is it all motorway? +1 to audio books and podcasts too. Well narrated audio books can be brilliantly engaging and captivating.

Sort of. M1 to drogheda, Duleek road to Kilmoon N2 M2 M50 there and then back M50 M2 N2 to dunleer and onto M1 .

Pauvre Con

It of course doesn't help that Irish drivers sit in the overtaking lane without actually overtaking. Undertaking is a no-no in Britain; here it's a necessity.

MugMugs

Pauvre Con wrote: »

It of course doesn't help that Irish drivers sit in the overtaking lane without actually overtaking. Undertaking is a no-no in Britain; here it's a necessity.

I am convinced that the population of Louth are actually asleep on their commutes. I made it from Julianstown to Rush once undertaking the entire way. It wasn't intentional. Every zombie was sitting in Lane 2 at about 70 mph. Nuts carry on!

Don't get me started on trucks overtaking on the M1. It's crazy and happens about five times a morning to me!

kormak

Pauvre Con wrote: »

It of course doesn't help that Irish drivers sit in the overtaking lane without actually overtaking. Undertaking is a no-no in Britain; here it's a necessity.

drives me nuts!

Dingatron

kormak wrote: »

That would suit me just fine... ps might even be quicker when the new 3-lane M1 superhighway is completed!!

Should shave off another 5 minutes maybe. Junction 4 has been relatively ok throughout the roadworks but the third lane should make a difference.

positron

Dingatron wrote: »

...the roadworks but the third lane should make a difference.

Well, there might an occasional Senior-citizen-mobile doing 60 in the normal lane, and may be a bus or a truck or two occupying the middle lane, and almost everyone else doing bumper to bumper on the overtaking lane. :pac:

Dingatron

True its time for a forth lane :pac: Even on a clear run I've all but given up using cruise control, its impossible to do a steady speed even in minimal traffic.

rogieop

dundalk - clondalkin- dundalk about 60 mile round trip. in and around an hour each way.

Car pooling though, so generaly only have to drive once every third day. still takes it out of you though.

eight quid a day on toll's just takes the piss tbf, not to mention the price of diesel, if it wasnt for my car pool id have no choice other than to move to dublin.

locum-motion

Dingatron wrote: »

True its time for a forth lane ...

Bull****. Three lanes is plenty for the amount of traffic involved.
Or at least it would be if the majority of drivers in Ireland knew how to use lanes properly.

Pauvre Con

Actually whilst we're slagging Irish driving habits what's the story with half the country putting their front foglights on - regardless of a lack of fog? Just the front ones mind.

Dingatron

locum-motion wrote: »

Bull****. Three lanes is plenty for the amount of traffic involved.

Assume you missed my sarcasm pacman.

OT
Fog lights are cool and especially if accompanied by aftermarket HIDs burning the retina out of your head. <sarcasm pacman> :pac:

MugMugs

rogieop wrote: »

dundalk - clondalkin- dundalk about 60 mile round trip. in and around an hour each way.
.

Assume you mean 120?

rogieop

MugMugs wrote: »

Assume you mean 120?

yes!

Fraggle00

MugMugs wrote: »

I made it from Julianstown to Rush once undertaking the entire way. It wasn't intentional. Every zombie was sitting in Lane 2 at about 70 mph. Nuts carry on!

Louth? I agree with you but that's not Louth.

Fraggle00

Pauvre Con wrote: »

Actually whilst we're slagging Irish driving habits what's the story with half the country putting their front foglights on - regardless of a lack of fog? Just the front ones mind.

So true

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

6km commute each way. 12 minutes on a bad day.

MugMugs

Fraggle00 wrote: »

Louth? I agree with you but that's not Louth.

Uhhhhhhhh, So you're one of them.

The majority of people I would be referring to would be those coming from the Drogheda direction. The commuter town that it has become. The likes of Grange Rath, Deepforde, Five Oaks..... working your way up the Dublin road. That's Louth. Unless you can think of another way for these people to get onto the Motorway.

Forgive me of course if the occasional Meath person slips into my tongue in cheek comment.....

locum-motion

Dingatron wrote: »

Assume you missed my sarcasm pacman. ...

Yes. I missed your sarcasm. And don't call me 'Pacman'!

R.O.R

Drogheda (Dublin Road side) - Tallaght - Drogheda. 62km each way so 124km round trip (77 miles).

Leave at around 06.40 in the morning and it takes about an hour via M1/M50. Because of the M1 Roadworks I'm going M50/M2/N2, Kilmoon Cross, through Duleek and turn at the cement factory on the way back.. Usually about an hour, give or take 10 mins on the way home, leaving Tallaght at 17.30.

Roughly 12 hours from leaving in the morning to getting home in the evening. Doesn't leave much time to do anything when you get home, but it's a better commute than when I was working in Sandyford!

kormak

Fraggle00 wrote: »

So true

The only time I put foglights on when it ain't foggy, is when some gobsh1te drives right up behind me with his headlights on and leaves them on....

kormak

R.O.R wrote: »

Drogheda (Dublin Road side) - Tallaght - Drogheda. 62km each way so 124km round trip (77 miles).

Leave at around 06.40 in the morning and it takes about an hour via M1/M50. Because of the M1 Roadworks I'm going M50/M2/N2, Kilmoon Cross, through Duleek and turn at the cement factory on the way back.. Usually about an hour, give or take 10 mins on the way home, leaving Tallaght at 17.30.

Roughly 12 hours from leaving in the morning to getting home in the evening. Doesn't leave much time to do anything when you get home, but it's a better commute than when I was working in Sandyford!

sounds similar-ish to myself... €4 on tolls a day?!

Dingatron

it's a better commute than when I was working in Sandyford!

I had to attend a course for 5 days in Sandyford a few years back when they were working on the M50 third lane. Getting there and back was a complete nightmare. I tried train, bus and car and it still took me around 3 hours one way. Leaving at 06:40 I was still late most days.