Commuting to work - how long, from where??

Kersh · 14-03-2006 09:59AM #1

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 · 14-03-2006 10:06AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:07AM

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

Töpher · 14-03-2006 10:08AM

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.

14-03-2006 10:09AM

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

TerrorFirmer · 14-03-2006 10:14AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:16AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:18AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:23AM

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

Loomis · 14-03-2006 10:31AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:41AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:43AM

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 · 14-03-2006 10:56AM

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 · 14-03-2006 11:02AM

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 · 14-03-2006 11:02AM

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

Going from Glasnevin to near the jervis centre.

Kersh · 14-03-2006 11:04AM

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

pan · 14-03-2006 11:11AM

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 · 14-03-2006 11:17AM

20 minutes in, 15 minutes home

Voodu Child · 14-03-2006 11:18AM

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 · 14-03-2006 11:37AM

Ya answered it didnt you??? :rolleyes:

Voodu Child · 14-03-2006 11:41AM

Kersh wrote:

Ya answered it didnt you???

Cos im bored...:p

Kersh · 14-03-2006 11:44AM

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

skywalker · 14-03-2006 11:53AM

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 · 14-03-2006 11:58AM

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 · 14-03-2006 12:11PM

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 · 14-03-2006 12:40PM

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 · 14-03-2006 02:10PM

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

pontovic · 14-03-2006 03:49PM

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 · 14-03-2006 04:13PM

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 · 14-03-2006 05:04PM

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

idontknowmyname · 14-03-2006 07:29PM

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

Commuting to work - how long, from where??

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