How long is your daily cummute to work/ college ??

bijapos · 25-02-2011 01:29PM

Funkfield wrote: »

20 min walk
20 min on Luas
20 min walk

x2 a day

20 hours commute a week.

Averaging that out works out at 40 days a year spent on way to and from work.

Jebus.

I hour a day each way. Makes 2 hours. 5 days a week makes 10 hours of commuting, not 20.

You work in Anglo-Irish or the Dept of Finance?

FWIW I work from home, so zero commute.

Any meetings I have in Dublin I always have at 10.00 or later so I dont get caught up in traffic either.

Happy days.

WolfForager · 25-02-2011 01:32PM

Wickla-UCD
Morning 1hr (leave at 7.20 if i left any later it'd take well over an hour)
I tend to leave college as early as possible to miss the traffic so usually 40mins home.

During the midterm this week i'm getting in 40 mins handy, no traffic whatsoever! Can leave home at 8, extra 45 mins in bed!

Which begs the question during the rest of the year...

WHY THE F**K CAN'T LITTLE FIACHRA AND SORCHA GET THE BLOODY BUS TO SCHOOL LIKE EVERY OTHER CHILD IN THE COUNTRY??!!

orourkeda · 25-02-2011 01:35PM

from bed to computer.

about 4 seconds

BuzzFish · 25-02-2011 01:36PM

40mins bed -> Desk

Asphyxia · 25-02-2011 01:37PM

College - 1 minute walk
Work - 15 minute drive

bigwormbundoran · 25-02-2011 01:43PM

Funkfield wrote: »

20 min walk
20 min on Luas
20 min walk

x2 a day

20 hours commute a week.

Averaging that out works out at 40 days a year spent on way to and from work.

Jebus.

How? Assuming you work 5 days a week its only 10

tman · 25-02-2011 01:49PM

"Cummute":p

Anywhere between 40 mins and an hour each way depending on how lucky I am with buses/tubes
Beats the 90 minute each way commute of my last job after we got relocated!!!

loopyloulilly · 25-02-2011 04:50PM

30 seconds working from home
40 minutes driving to head office

hardcore · 25-02-2011 04:53PM

It takes me 8-10 mins to get to my workplace. I am currently renting and will continue to do so in an area that wont effect my commute time. I view this as an important part of my life, I dont want to spend an hour- 2hour of a commute every day which is an absolute waste. But if your living in Dublin I guess there is no option given the high cost of living within the M50.

Dolph Starbeam · 25-02-2011 05:07PM

Thank god i live in the country, i couldn't live with anything longer than a 30 minute commute, at the moment i work pretty much from home so 0 minute commute for me, last few years it was about a 10 minute drive, thats it.

rubadub · 25-02-2011 05:51PM

20-25min cycle
40-60min drive
1hr luas
1hr 10min walk
1hr 20min bus

Korvanica · 25-02-2011 05:54PM

20 minute cycle...

my exercise done for the week :P

Copper23 · 25-02-2011 05:56PM

Used to be an 1-1.5 hour drive depending on traffic.

Now its a 10 minute ride on the underground or a nice work from home day. Sweet

hardcore · 25-02-2011 06:04PM

WolfForager wrote: »

WHY THE F**K CAN'T LITTLE FIACHRA AND SORCHA GET THE BLOODY BUS TO SCHOOL LIKE EVERY OTHER CHILD IN THE COUNTRY??!!

Cant see the celtic tiger cubs driving their daughters and sons to school like this for good.

jillyb · 25-02-2011 06:34PM

6-10 min drive depending on if sloooooww drivers/lights

I could not commute anymore than 30 mins... impossible to get myself out of bed as it is!

rainbow kirby · 25-02-2011 06:44PM

45 minutes on the bus to the city centre, plus about 10-15 minutes walk after that.

saywhatyousee · 25-02-2011 06:49PM

20 mins walk or 30mins in a car

Turtyturd · 25-02-2011 06:51PM

Minimum of two hours each way...bout two and a half at the most.

davetherave · 25-02-2011 06:58PM

Currently on a work placement so only 8-10 minute walk

If in college then anywhere from 45 minutes to 120 minutes based on the combination of bus eireann/train/Dublin bus/luas I take and how bad traffic is.

Lawrence1895 · 25-02-2011 07:38PM

I'm cycling from Artane to Clanbrassil Street, depending on how packed the roads are, it takes between 30 and 40 minutes.

The distance is 3.8 miles, as far as I remember.

daenerysstormborn3 · 25-02-2011 07:40PM

Currently unemployed but in my last job I was doing a 15 minute cycle, followed by 2.5 hour train journey, followed by a 30 minute cycle and then the same on the way home.

Journey by train is around 150kms, journey by bicycle is around 10kms+15kms so altogether everyday I did 350kms of travel.

25-02-2011 07:57PM

2 hours to Longford from Limerick, 2.5 hours back, monday to friday.

titan18 · 25-02-2011 07:58PM

15 minute walk. Tis handy

Iwannahurl · 25-02-2011 08:18PM

OP asked "how long" without specifying whether the answer should be expressed as time, distance or both.

Not very informative saying how much time unless distance is also mentioned.

One or two posters mentioned a 6-minute drive. But what is that in kilometres? If they are able to drive at an average of, say, 1 km/minute, then their commuting distance is 6 km. That's very doable by bike.

On the other hand, a 6 minute commute by car in stop-start urban traffic conditions sounds farcical to me.

tman · 25-02-2011 08:21PM

rubadub wrote: »

20-25min cycle
40-60min drive
1hr luas
1hr 10min walk
1hr 20min bus

****ing hell, that's some commute!!!!

25-02-2011 08:22PM

tman wrote: »

****ing hell, that's some commute!!!!

Are those the times depending on how he gets there?

Cybertron85 · 25-02-2011 08:27PM

It was 4 hours up and back for a long time(walk - bus - luas - walk and the same again coming home), recently it's 30 mins walk to the dole office

rubadub · 25-02-2011 08:29PM

tman wrote: »

****ing hell, that's some commute!!!!

bluewolf wrote: »

Are those the times depending on how he gets there?

Yep, thing is by cycling I am getting in exercise but ending up with more free time. I know lads that will sit in a car all day, then drive 30mins to a gym, walk a treadmill for 60mins then drive home 30mins again :rolleyes: I also despise sitting in rush hour traffic in a car.

Others cheat themselves of their true commute time, like saying "takes me 30mins on the train", then you ask "so you leave at 8.30 to be in for 9", -"ah jaysus no, I'm out the door at 6. "

In my case I think the luas is longer than the 1hr, I walk 25mins to it, it is 25mins travel and 10min walk to work, but I have had to wait 9mins for the luas so you have to factor that in.

lcrcboy · 25-02-2011 08:29PM

45 min train journey to college :mad:

tman · 25-02-2011 08:48PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Are those the times depending on how he gets there?

I thought it was a pretty obvious joke... Guess not!:p

How long is your daily cummute to work/ college ??

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