Whats your commute to work like?

devlinio

What's your commute to work like every day? I'm currently looking for a new job in Dublin and everything I find that's interesting will involved a DART to the city, as well as a Luas.

When I started my first job last year, I could get the Dart from Clongriffin to Tara Street and walk to Dame Street. It was a fantastic commuter. Then we moved offices and I had to get a bus in addition to the above. I'm trying to avoid this in my next job, but it seems hard to avoid having to get a second mode of transport which means nearly 1.5 hours of commuting each way.

What's yours like?

brendanwalsh

One and thirty minutes each way. 3 hours in the car. Listen to plenty podcasts.

PirateShampoo

Tallaght to Finglas every day, 20 mins in the morning 30-40 in the evening. €90 on tolls every month and €120 ish on Petrol.

Under 10 minute spin. Lovely stuff.

Had to commute to Dublin for college which meant getting a bus 2 hours before the first lecture. Have no interest in commuting long-term again, dunno how people can do it.

nlrkjos

6am flight from Cork to Amsterdam...11am Amsterdam to Bergen... 7pm helicopter to rig 15 hour commute ! then reverse that 14 day later. Well, you did ask!

brevity

45 minutes to an hour each way. Podcasts are a life saver.

Would like to try and learn a second language too.

Johnnyhpipe

25 mins each way by car. I’m lucky compared to most it seems

bodice ripper

1 hour drive and 30 minute walk each way. It weighs on the soul.

NeonCookies

Since last year, two and a half hours each way. Driving. Did it about 3 times a week initially. Since then I stay up a few nights a week and can do a day working from home. A few months left... Then I should have a 25 minute journey each way, and 600e per month back in my pocket and not in my car/b&bs.

Purple Mountain

This has been done to death at this stage.

Rubberchikken

between 5 and 10 minutes depending on traffic at local roundabout and if i have to get petrol or not. wiukdnt swop it for the world.

15 minutes each way on a scooter. Sounds ok till you see how dusty the roads are, how everyone is trying to kill you, and rain is no bueno. My actual work schedule is the good part of my job, and the fact it's easy.

poisonated

20 minute walk each way. Not the worst.

Bredabe

Down four flights of steps, a ten minute walk and another three flights of steps. Five minute stroll to my desk from the door(phone is usually ringing)

My best commute ever, tho I hate the location.

Your Face

It's about 2 minutes to Gotham in the Batwing.

Twenty Grand

6 minutes in the morning and 8 in the evening.
I live at one junction on the motorway and work is at the next.

fg1406

6 minutes by car from door to door. I get to go home for lunch. Very handy.

Qrt

1hr10 each way approx (for college). It’s a killer even though it’s with the Luas. I’ve told myself that I’m looking for work elsewhere if I can’t eventually buy a plane 30 min cycle of the CC. Long commutes aren’t worth it.

Vowel Movement

20km ~ 15 minutes. Most of it is on a quite backroad with the last 3 minutes on dual carriageway.

Jamemid

Doing 1hr30 each way usually 6 days a week. Getting sick of it now .need to change jobs.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

At home it was a 10 minute drive on mostly dual carriageway.

Living abroad at the minute, usually around 30 minutes on a bus (suburban to CBD).

lbc2019

Wow, love these new thread concepts

Strumms

Can’t imagine commuting for 3 hours daily. My job was 20 minutes each way. Handy. No motorways involved, motorways bug the shît outta me.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Purple Mountain wrote: »

This has been done to death at this stage.

The thread or your commute?!

endacl

Job 1: About 15-20 minutes door to door, Mostly on M50.
Job 2: About 5 if I drive, 10 if I cycle, 30 if I walk. Depends on the weather/humour.

No complaints. I'm never in rush hour traffic. My commute time is dictated by traffic lights. Interestingly, I pass 6 sets on the way to each location. Never thought of that till now!

Canis Lupus

20ish on motorbike
45ish if I cycle which I try to do the most and listen to an audiobook along the way.

Tokyo

30 minute cycle in SE Asian traffic (I.e. Mad Max: Fury Road) each way every day. Get to cycle by the shwedagon though, which is nice.

OldMrBrennan83

4 minutes drive. If I get the first lights, I'll get the second.

If I get the reds it's 6.

Pinch Flat

13km cycle commute from west Dublin to Tara street - can be about half an hour if I’m feeling energetic. I love the consistency - schools on / off make no difference, weather issues not as bad as people think. Doing it 10 years now, so kind of forgot what it’s like to drive to work or get a bus / train.

razorblunt

< 10 mins drive to the tram
25 mins on the tram.

47 to 52 mins cycle.

Love it.

saintsaltynuts

An eight minute walk from the house.I win.