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How long is your commute to work?

  • 16-11-2015 3:29pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭


    I was interested in how long it was taking people to get to their place of work, did a search but last time this was asked was a couple of years ago seemingly

    How long does your commute to work take?

    How long does your commute to work take? 375 votes

    1-15 minutes
    0% 1 vote
    16-30 minutes
    30% 113 votes
    31-45 minutes
    24% 92 votes
    46-60 minutes
    13% 51 votes
    61-90 minutes
    18% 70 votes
    91-120 minutes
    10% 40 votes
    121+ minutes
    2% 8 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    25 minutes. But if I leave 5-10 minutes later it will take me around an hour and 15 minutes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    5-7 minutes on the bike. 15-20 minutes walking. Roughly. 2 set of traffic lights.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭anvilfour


    5 minutes thank God, just being transferred to a building that's in walking distance of my place! Used to be a 30 minute or so grind on the peasant wagon... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    smash wrote: »
    25 minutes. But if I leave 5-10 minutes later it will take me around an hour and 15 minutes.

    Think this is probably the case with an awful lot of people, myself included. I arrive to work earlier than necessary because if I left even ten minutes later I'd be 30 mins late for work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    45 mins to an hour depending on traffic. All motorway though and I don't mind the drive, plus I can be flexible with start/finish times


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    22 minutes but if I walk backwards it takes me twice that.
    Approximately. Unless it is raining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    25 minutes, I walk to work spaced out listening to music in order to wake up myself up.

    This is pretty much an accurate description of my progress along my way to work :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 159 ✭✭Andrew Laeddis


    8 minute walk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    About a 15-20 minute walk


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭sashafierce


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.
    You need to buy 2 more cars!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    About 12 minutes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,883 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    About 10 seconds as my office is the box room next to my bedroom.

    about 5-6 minutes though if I go via the kitchen for a fresh coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    about an hour, hoour and a quarter on a bad day. Its not bad really, as I cover 50 miles in this time. I got used to a commute of 45 - 60 mins when working in dublin (and that was an 8 mile journey!) and once you get used to it you just factor it in. An hour to myself in the morn is great, I get to plan my day and listen to the radio. An hour on the way home lets me unwind. An hour on the road (actually driving) is much better than an hour stuck in city traffic ....

    Would not consider working anywhere with a commute longer than 90 mins. Thats my limit.

    Never had an issue with the distance from home, except once, when I took the kids buggy with me in the boot, and the OH was without it for the day. No nipping back home at lunchtime to drop it off!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,685 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Feel sorry for the poor bastard who travels over 2hrs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Feel sorry for the poor bastard who travels over 2hrs.

    Was thinking the same :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Feel sorry for the poor bastard who travels over 2hrs.
    He must have bought in Longford when the government pushed it as a 'commuter town' back in the boom.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Anything between 30-40 minutes depending on how fast I drive.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    25 minute cycle. Wish it was a bit longer sometimes.


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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭pajero12


    90 seconds door to door, That almost doubles in winter though, have to wait for my windscreen to defrost :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    smash wrote: »
    He must have bought in Longford when the government pushed it as a 'commuter town' back in the boom.

    Remember those adverts down the country.."Only 45 mins from Dublin".

    They were right - if you have a wind behind you and a helicopter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Anything from 25 minutes to an hour and a quarter depending on time of year (schools being off in summer makes a big difference) and whether or not there's a crash on the M50 that day.

    I have definitely noticed it getting longer over the 5 years I've been working here, the M50 upgrade wasn't nearly ambitious enough imho.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    An hour to myself in the morn is great, I get to plan my day and listen to the radio. An hour on the way home lets me unwind. An hour on the road (actually driving) is much better than an hour stuck in city traffic ....

    This is good news, potentially got a 60-75 minute each way daily commute coming up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    pajero12 wrote: »
    90 seconds door to door, That almost doubles in winter though, have to wait for my windscreen to defrost :mad:

    Umm. If it's a 90 second drive.... why drive??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Between 2 to 2 and a half hours each way. Yay public transport!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Cutie18Ireland


    Almost 2 hours each way.. Leave at 6.30 home about 7 ish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Almost 2 hours each way.. Leave at 6.30 home about 7 ish
    I bet you set up your boards account the same day you set up your bebo account... :D


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    About 35-45 minutes for me in the car. I'd cycle the route (and normally do every now and again in summer) but to do it all the time it'd take 2 hours each way, and as much as I love cycling, that's too much time taken from my day imo.

    Current record in the office is a guy who gets the train from East Galway to Newbridge. Takes 1.75 hours each way he says.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    6 minute walk to the underground, or I can take a bus outside my door if it's raining. 27 mins on underground, exits under my office. 2 mins to get into building, wait for lift and get to my desk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Over an hour, but music and audio books make it seem to pass quicker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    smash wrote: »
    I bet you set up your boards account the same day you set up your bebo account... :D

    Not enough xoxoxoxo's in it.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,424 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    10 minute walk door to door.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    0mins, I'm retired :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Feel sorry for the poor bastard who travels over 2hrs.

    Don’t feel sorry for me chap, I made the decision to give up my short commute for a house in the country complete with an acre of land. It may take me an hour to drive home but when I get out of the car there isn’t a sound and the night sky always makes me stop and stare before I go inside. I never saw the night sky living in Dublin.


    To all the long commuters I say, you are NOT mad.


  • Administrators Posts: 54,424 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Don’t feel sorry for me chap, I made the decision to give up my short commute for a house in the country complete with an acre of land. It may take me an hour to drive home but when I get out of the car there isn’t a sound and the night sky always makes me stop and stare before I go inside. I never saw the night sky living in Dublin.


    To all the long commuters I say, you are NOT mad.

    Is your commute over 2 hours in each direction?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    10 - 15 mins or 1 hour.

    Anyone ever seen Galway traffic? It's soul destroying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    awec wrote: »
    Is your commute over 2 hours in each direction?

    Oh jesus no, 2 hours round trip.

    2 hours one way, now I do feel sorry for them poor bastards :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Oh jesus no, 2 hours round trip.

    2 hours one way, now I do feel sorry for them poor bastards :pac:

    An hour each way isn't a long commute really. tbh I'd kill for that!


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Nothing if I am working from home and up to two and a half hours depending on where I am going


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭wally79


    About 10 seconds as my office is the box room next to my bedroom.

    about 5-6 minutes though if I go via the kitchen for a fresh coffee.

    Are you me? You just described my commute exactly


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    15-20 mins each way on the bike, moving shortly so may go to 20-25 mins.

    35 mins door 2 door on the bus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    An hour each way isn't a long commute really. tbh I'd kill for that!


    Well I'm doing 160km a day so I would politely disagree :rolleyes: but yeah 2 hours is alot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭xabi


    pajero12 wrote: »
    90 seconds door to door, That almost doubles in winter though, have to wait for my windscreen to defrost :mad:

    You're joking, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    It depends on so many factors.

    If I take the bus and leave my house at 7.45, I'm in work by 8.30. But if I leave at 7.50 it's nearly 9 when I get there. Coming home again it depends on traffic, but on average an hour.

    If I cycle it's 20 mins into work and 25 mins out of work. Prefer to cycle but am recovering from surgery so no biking until January.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Zero, my farm is outside my front door.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    wally79 wrote: »
    Are you me? You just described my commute exactly
    Do yiz work in the same office?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    12 - 15 minutes by bike.

    Its grand, enough exercise that I don't feel bad for not doing any other form of exercise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    awec wrote: »
    10 minute walk door to door.

    You should drive. It would only take about 90 seconds then.


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