Daily commute

purplecow1977

What's your daily commute like?

I drive 50km each way, and it takes about 1 hr each way with traffic. Sometimes 5/10 minutes more, sometimes 5/10 minutes less.

What about you?

Ann Landers

purplecow1977 wrote: »

What's your daily commute like?

I drive 50km each way, and it takes about 1 hr each way with traffic. Sometimes 5/10 minutes more, sometimes 5/10 minutes less.

What about you?

10 minute cycle to Drury Street Bike Park, then a 15 minute walk.

markpb

My commute used to be a ten minute walk each way but now that I drop my daughter off to crèche, it can take anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes. Still okay though :-)

connundrum

9km journey, can take anywhere from 20 mins - 50 mins.

I'd love to walk/cycle but have a company van which I use during the day and night so no option.

purplecow1977

A 9km journey that could take 50 mins? Wow.

makeorbrake

65KM each way. Far from ideal - but necessity dictates and all of that...

helimachoptor

9km, on the bike its 20 mins, on the bus its about 40 mins door to door

John Mason

6km, 20-30 mins in car.

About 60-90 mins on bus

purplecow1977

I don't feel too bad now.
I find I'm quite tired by Thurs/Fri and I put it down to the commute. I also figure it's such a waste of time (2 hours per day) sitting in my car but I can't change that for the moment!

knipex

56km each way.. takes about 35 minutes... Gotta love the motorway network. (would have taken about an hour and a half previously. ..)

purplecow1977

I think about 30 minutes would be a 'nice' commute. I enjoy it to an extent as it gives me time to unwind and think while I'm driving.

ITMissy

1.5 hours each way. It's a killer.

purplecow1977

Oh how do you manage that? Are you taking public transport or driving?

Stheno

Depending on where i am going, up to five hours per day, this week I've a 200 mile round trip three days of the week.

usually its an hour each way if working in Dublin, but that's less than fifty percent of the time

Amirani

Current commute is 6k. Fairly handy cycle of 15 mins. Bus is about 30 mins.

kevohmsford

49km each way. Takes about 45 mins.

ITMissy

purplecow1977 wrote: »

Oh how do you manage that? Are you taking public transport or driving?

I Drive, public transport is not an option for me.

boobar

purplecow1977 wrote: »

I think about 30 minutes would be a 'nice' commute. I enjoy it to an extent as it gives me time to unwind and think while I'm driving.

That's my commute, one hour round trip, it's great and I'd be very reluctant to move job unless I had to. I used to have a 4 hour round trip, total head wreck it was.

blindside88

80km each way, said I'd do it for a year, 3 years later I'm still at it

purplecow1977

How do you all manage with childcare etc? I would love to stay in my current job and moving closer to work isn't really feasible (love!). At the moment, we don't have any children but I assumed that when I did have children, that my 2 hour daily commute wouldn't work any more with childcare etc and that I would have to look for work closer to home. Maybe not?

I'm lucky in that I technically finish work at 3pm and can leave then if I want, but generally I stay until 4/4.30 so I'm home at 5.30. I suppose that's a 'normal' day for others with 9-5 jobs.

MagicMarker

700 metres.

Both ways.

stoneill

25 mins cycle with a stretch along by the river liffey in St Cathrines Park - couldn't ask for a better commute.

road_high

About 20-25 mins mostly via motorway. Don't know how people doing hours and hours of commute manage it. I actually really admire this people.

Stheno

road_high wrote: »

About 20-25 mins mostly via motorway. Don't know how people doing hours and hours of commute manage it. I actually really admire this people.

Between tomorrow and Friday I will do over 760 miles getting to and from work, somewhat by choice, as for me it's a commutable distance, and the alternative is being away from home.

Next week I will do 300 miles and be away from home for three nights so for me, it's a case of getting up early and having some time at home is worth not being away from home.

25km each way. Takes about 35 minutes in the morning and 40-50 minutes in the afternoon. Getting fed up with the drive especially on the way home.

ongarboy

50 minutes door to door but only 25 of that is on the train - the rest is walking at each end. I enjoy the downtime on the train in the morning (I always have a seat) after the mad rush getting ready before leaving the house and before facing the work day!

FudgeBrownie

purplecow1977 wrote: »

A 9km journey that could take 50 mins? Wow.

Mine is just under 9km and takes from 20 - 60 mins, depending on traffic. Generally if I leave after 8am it takes 40 mins, and after 8.15 it takes an hour. Madness!!

Boldberry

5 minute walk, well probably less than that.

Stheno

Today was 260 miles, left home at 5:30 got back at 7pm

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

11.5km,

25-35 mins on the bike

50-70 mins by car

Dart is the longest by the time I have to get to the dart station and then from the station to my work.

ronjo

10km.

10-20 mins in the car.
If I leave really early or leave the office around 6pm its only 10mins which is great.

professore

10 km each way city commute. Takes about 20 mins on motorbike, could be up to an hour if it was in a car. Years ago living abroad I had a nearly 2 hour commute each way by bus and train each way. I vowed never again, either I would get another job or move closer to work. That's 20 hours a week unpaid overtime!

Eoin

About 30km, which can take anything from 25 minutes on a good day to an hour or more on a crappy day.

I don't know how people can deal with 3-4 hours a daily basis.

purplecow1977 wrote: »

How do you all manage with childcare etc? I would love to stay in my current job and moving closer to work isn't really feasible

One of us does the drop off and one of us does the collection. The crèche is on the way for both of us, which helps. Haven't a clue what we'll do when he starts school and finishes earlier though.

purplecow1977 wrote: »

I assumed that when I did have children, that my 2 hour daily commute wouldn't work any more with childcare etc and that I would have to look for work closer to home. Maybe not?

Nah, unless you're starting very early, then that's very doable. An hour either way isn't that unmanageable at all.

Tar.Aldarion

4.5k cycle, takes around 15 mins.

If I took the bus it can go to over an hour.

Creamy Goodness

5 minute drive to station.
45 minute DART
10 minute walk.
2 minute coffee stop.

Just about on the limit of what I call doable everyday. Anything else and I:

a) wouldn't take the job
b) go insane.

Alf Veedersane

All in all, it's about 45 minutes each way.

15 minute walk and cycle to Dart, 20 mins on the Dart, 10 minute walk to office.

Boulevardier

For me its bus to work (about 30 mins in traffic) and, weather permitting, walk home (about 50 mins).

Macy0161

40km.

Car - Normally start at 8, so it takes around an hour at that time generally. Again leaving around 4.30 it takes under an hour to get home. It would take a lot more if I left later - if I left at 7.30 rather than 7 I'd be lucky to be in at 9. Same in the evening, later I leave the more variables come into play and I can be caught for an hour and half or later, but that would be rarer tbh.

Rail - Drive + Dart takes about an hour and half each way. Did it for a while and enjoyed the downtime the train gave me, but it's just not practical adding an hour to my working day. Could also do the park and ride for the luas, but a longer drive, paid parking but shaves 10-15 minutes of the journey.

Bus - there's a private bus I could get from the end of the drive. About an hour and half door to door both ways, but the evening return just isn't practical as I'd get home after the kids had gone to bed (it'd be a runner if it was an hour earlier though). It's a one in the morning, one in the evening service. To get a Bus Eireann or Dublin bus would be no real benefit over the dart or luas.

I try to park up a few days a week in the suburbs and cycle through the city and the worst of the traffic. This generally gives a total commute of about an hour. Work is due to move location, to somewhere that won't be as practical for me to drive to, and this will probably be the option I take 5 days a week when that happens.

Sunny Dayz

550m from door to door per google maps. Takes between 5 and 10 mins walking, depending on footwear and tiredness. Have to admit I do drive it quite a bit, with the great Irish weather I would be soaked. Driving takes about a minute! Last summer was brilliant, I rarely moved the car at all during the week! When it's snowy or icy I walk it also as the length of time it would take to de-frost the car I would have walked in at the stage!

Ann Landers

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

550m from door to door per google maps. Takes between 5 and 10 mins walking, depending on footwear and tiredness. Have to admit I do drive it quite a bit, with the great Irish weather I would be soaked.

Seriously?

reap-a-rat

I'm 3km from work, so I walk it. Takes me 30 minutes. I've never improved on that time and I'm doing it a good while now. I don't have a car anyway, so that's not an option. Live in Galway so the bus isn't great either - I'd have to take a bus to town and another bus out from town which is far too much a waste of time. Have got soaked on occasion but I wear rain gear.

I've told myself that even if I had a car I wouldn't drive it. I did drive the odd last Summer and it took between 5 and 15 minutes usually; when it took 15 it was due to traffic in one particular spot. I just couldn't be bothered with the stress of driving. The walk home is therapeutic, by the time I'm in the door any stress I had at work has usually cleared off and I can relax. Great release.

Also, I don't want to kill/be killed so I'm not cycling. I'm far too awkward and fearful.

Bepolite

About 3 metres from my pit to my keyboard, takes me about 6 hours a day. 5:59:50 to get to it and about 10 seconds to get back.

Turtle-TM

130km a day by car. 20 mins on an R road, then motorway to M50.

If I'm in at 8 i need to leave at 6.40am, if I leave at 7-7.15 I'll be in at 8.15-8.30 depending on weather/alignment of the stars/full moon/and depending on how many people left their brain in bed before they got in the car, which is usually between 75-90% all it takes is a tiny incident on the m50 and it becomes a car park.

Hopefully I can move to somewhere within 1-5km of work soon enough, as after a 12 hour day driving 65km really isn't appealing.

ene

i just moved to the uk and so have a new job!

in my old job it was a 30 minute drive along the dreaded N11 or 40 minutes on the luas and a 20 minute walk, i generally just driver as there was free parking at work!

in my new job its 0.3 miles away so i walk or if i am being lazy or running late i cycle! At the moment i am loving the novelty of coming home for lunch!

baron von something

Don't drive so a 20 minute walk both ways and its nice walk.a couple minutes drive if i get a lift.

they wanted me to go into management but it would have meant transferring to another store which would have meant a 30minute walk to the bus,at least an hour on the bus depending on traffic another 30 mins then a short walk.feck that.i actually would have ended up down money due to extra tax/travel costs

ongarboy

I actually enjoy not living in the same area as my work if the commute is manageable. I feel I can detach a lot better that way from it and it's great escaping it on a Friday evening. I knew someone who's apartment was across the street from our office building and visible from our floor:eek:. We used to joke that he'd never be able to pull a sickie as he'd be spotted! I would have hated that visible proximity!!

duffalosoldier

ITMissy wrote: »

1.5 hours each way. It's a killer.

Is it really that bad? How long have you been doing it. Im about to embark on the same and seeking inspiration !!!

tony1980

About 6k on the bike, handy 15 minutes.

Sarah Bear

I leave my house at 5 to 9.. I arrive just before 9.. I couldn't be any nearer!

WildRosie

Work (Saturday and Sunday, start early and finish late): 7km, takes 12 minutes in the car

College (Monday-Friday, 9-5): 8km, takes 45mins-1hr in the car

Stheno

duffalosoldier wrote: »

Is it really that bad? How long have you been doing it. Im about to embark on the same and seeking inspiration !!!

It can be very wearing, if that time is "normal" traffic, then any sort of an incident can lead to delays far longer

As the week goes on you get to dread the journey tbh

I did it for approx. 9 years, then moved to an hours commute, the difference was amazing and I was going against traffic.

Now I can work from home, or like tomorrow have a 150 mile trip to a clients office, then five minutes commute during the week, and the same 150 mile trip home at the end of the week