How much of a commute is too much

Ray Bloody Purchase · 27-11-2018 4:50pm

threein99 wrote: »

You are a cyclist so your opinion doesn't count

joking

Cyclists are real people too!! :mad::mad::mad::p

I used to drive from Tallaght to Athlone and back for work everyday. Used to take anything up to an hour and twenty minutes each way, depending on traffic.

Bleedin' nightmare.

BrokenArrows · 27-11-2018 5:00pm

Graces7 wrote: »

in my first teaching job, i left home at 7.15, caught a local bus, then connected with the school bus for an hour's drive.

Reversed after school and home around 6 pm or.later. Both ways laden with exercise books etc.

Learned to drive and got a mini in sheer self defence.

Commuting is...

Home by 6pm and you think that's bad. Ah teachers!

razorblunt · 27-11-2018 5:26pm

45 minute cycle.
Or an 10 minute drive, 30 minute tram and 5 minute walk.

Great knowing you'll always be home either side of the hour mark.

Dravokivich · 27-11-2018 5:27pm

Commuting from clondalkin to leixlip. 3 buses, 2km walking. 2 1/2 hours.

Fenster · 27-11-2018 5:53pm

Public transport across 22km from Harold's Cross to the farthest reaches of Howth. 90 minutes door-to-door in the morning and up to two hours door-to-door in the evening.

Walk to bus stop.
Bus into city.
Walk to next bus stop.
Bus to Howth.
Walk 20 minutes to office.

I hate every minute of it.

yegorzima · 27-11-2018 5:54pm

as for me 30-40 minutes it's ok

theteal · 27-11-2018 6:09pm

I just did an interview for a job that's 8 minutes drive from the house - actually only about 500m as the crow flies. So that would be about 50 mins less than the current commute and save me nearly £4k train ticket. More money on offer too. Such a step backwards in career though. . . .mmmm decisions

fryup · 27-11-2018 6:51pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^

if i was you, i'd go for it

4k extra in the backpocket, its a no brainer

Canyon86 · 27-11-2018 7:56pm

I commute 120km round trip a day by car
And I have been the last two years

I do find it does wear ya down eventually, find myself get agitated a bit easier and also road rage is now an issue

I do often work from home and I will start this once the bad weather arrives

JupiterKid · 27-11-2018 8:11pm

Anything longer than an hour each way a day is just not sustainable in the long term for anyone's mental health and well being.

And the very sad thing is that through atrocious land use planning and transportation policies and an utterly dysfunctional housing market we have condemned a generation of people to this fate.

seamusk84 · 27-11-2018 8:17pm

Dravokivich wrote: »

Commuting from clondalkin to leixlip. 3 buses, 2km walking. 2 1/2 hours.

Learn to ride a motorbike mate, will revolutionize your life.

suicide_circus · 27-11-2018 8:17pm

Dravokivich wrote: »

Commuting from clondalkin to leixlip. 3 buses, 2km walking. 2 1/2 hours.

jesus. are you in the whole of your health? you'd walk it in less time.

roady rhodes · 27-11-2018 8:21pm

I drive 140 km each way 5 days a week, that's 1400km. It takes about 1hour 45, min each way, I've been doing it for a year now and can say it really is soul destroying, winter is even worse.

BobC88 · 27-11-2018 9:59pm

The M1 is beyond a disgrace now at this stage.

Ardee to city centre is a 40min drive on a Sunday.

It’s taking me over two hours each way now, every day. It used to be better on a Friday but even they’ve become as bad.

Main problems are the fact the M1 isn’t even a real motorway, it’s a dual carriage way, absolute retards driving in the overtaking lane, and mergers. For the love of god can people not learn that the reason off / on ramps are there, are so you get up to the speed of the road so to merge safely?

You get absolute bell-ends merging onto that road at 60km/h meaning the plebs scuttling along at 90km/h pull out onto the overtaking lane & in turn they’ve pulled out in front of the other bell-ends speeding / driving full time in the OVERTAKING lane!!

If everyone drove at, or just below, the speed limit of every road in the country, used overtaking lanes for overtaking only, and learned to merge onto roads properly it would make for much smoother commutes for everyone.

Also, a third lane for buses & HGVs only would be a monumental help.

But hey, where’s any of this in the driving test? Yeah “reverse around a corner there in this estate”, that’ll get you ready for motorway driving.

Jaysus!

Dravokivich · 27-11-2018 11:05pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

jesus. are you in the whole of your health? you'd walk it in less time.

Clutch went on my car a few weeks ago. Ain't got the money to fix it.

Dravokivich · 27-11-2018 11:06pm

seamusk84 wrote: »

Learn to ride a motorbike mate, will revolutionize your life.

Can't get the kid to creche on one though :pac:

fryup · 27-11-2018 11:45pm

Dravokivich wrote: »

Commuting from clondalkin to leixlip. 3 buses, 2km walking. 2 1/2 hours.

you mean a two and a half hour drive each way??

Dravokivich · 28-11-2018 8:19am

fryup wrote: »

you mean a two and a half hour drive each way??

Nothing in that post said i was driving. But yeah. That's the time each way. If my car was alright it'll be about 40/50 minutes.

littlevillage · 28-11-2018 8:39am

Bit of a nonsensical question from OP. How much of a commute is too much....answer : when its too much for you personally.

For me that would probably be anything over an hour one way.....as I would be arriving to work tired. Incidently, I wouldn't like to get to work too quick either, say under 15 mins.....probably wouldn't leave me enough time to get into 'work mode'.

My current commute is 40 minutes ... in a nice comfortable car catching up on the news on the radio and psyching myself up for an ass kicking day .....bliss :-)

cournioni · 28-11-2018 8:48am

namloc1980 wrote: »

Lady I work with commutes 1hr20mins each way every day. She has a big house in the country and says she prefers to drive long commute to have the house. Over a year it works out at over 600 hours sitting in a car commuting. That's 26 days of driving 24 hours a day or 51 days driving 12 hours a day. Fcuk that - nearly 2 months of your life every year sitting in a car to go to/from work!

She might enjoy a few podcasts/radio shows during her commutes.

Those two months in the year might be worth it when you might have to live in a substandard shoebox of a dwelling where you have no choice but to get on with your neighbor or your life is hell.

incentsitive · 28-11-2018 9:59am

Dravokivich wrote: »

Nothing in that post said i was driving. But yeah. That's the time each way. If my car was alright it'll be about 40/50 minutes.

You need to learn to cycle either dude, that would probably take about half an hour.

Dravokivich · 28-11-2018 10:06am

incentsitive wrote: »

You need to learn to cycle either dude, that would probably take about half an hour.

As mentioned earlier, I'm also doing a creche run with a kid.

Tombo2001 · 28-11-2018 10:08am

Dravokivich wrote: »

As mentioned earlier, I'm also doing a creche run with a kid.

I've been using bike to bring kids from A to B for years, including crèche run.

Its not that difficult.

EDIT - Clondalkin to Leixlip would involve country roads, fair enough. I would still look to see if there is a route that could be mainly cycle path.

Alternatively, you could change crèche so that the drop off is in Clondalkin, and you cycle to / from Leixlip.

incentsitive · 28-11-2018 10:14am

Could you drop the kid off and go home and get the bike then? It'd still be probably 1 1/2 hrs faster each way.

Dravokivich · 28-11-2018 10:15am

I wouldn't have anywhere to store those trailer things folks pack their kids into.

Do you think I'd be doing that commute if I had another choice?

Dravokivich · 28-11-2018 10:20am

incentsitive wrote: »

Could you drop the kid off and go home and get the bike then? It'd still be probably 1 1/2 hrs faster each way.

Wont save much time. And id not have the chance to drop it off somewhere before picking him up.

Clondalkin gets pretty bad with traffic. My area blocks up because it feeds onto monastery road, which gets choked up by people trying to get onto naas road and m50. So going back home to get a bike isn't an option.

Berserker · 28-11-2018 10:34am

BobC88 wrote: »

It’s taking me over two hours each way now, every day. It used to be better on a Friday but even they’ve become as bad.

Christ that's a shocking commute. Would it not be possible to find a job closer to home?

BobC88 wrote: »

Main problems are the fact the M1 isn’t even a real motorway, it’s a dual carriage way, absolute retards driving in the overtaking lane, and mergers. For the love of god can people not learn that the reason off / on ramps are there, are so you get up to the speed of the road so to merge safely?

I drive along the M3/N3 and you see the exact same nonsense. Idiots bringing traffic to a standstill when they merge and exit.

CheerLouth · 28-11-2018 10:42am

Berserker wrote: »

I drive along the M3/N3 and you see the exact same nonsense. Idiots bringing traffic to a standstill when they merge and exit.

Or people who won't move out of the way to let you merge :mad:

Last week on the M1, I had to go home mid-day due to a family emergency. Road was fairly empty except for one complete tosspot in the overtaking lane. He moved over to let me overtake him & then the minute I was passed him, straight back out into the right hand lane! WTF?! Lefthand lane completely empty!!!!!

And don't get me started on the a-holes who ignore the emergency services - do these ppl not use their mirrors?!

Mink · 28-11-2018 2:29pm

I'm only working 3 days (going up M7) but the commute was getting up to 1.5hrs since kids went back and now up to 2hrs with bad weather, xmas etc. 80km one way. I attempted to train & bike it but quickly discovered that I don't cycle as fast as Google Maps thinks I should and it's just not feasible to catch the trains I need.

So this week I moved my hours 1/2 hr back (I'm lucky to be able to do that) and now doing 7.30-3.30 and it's brought the commute back down to 1hr 15min so the sting is taken out of it.

I'm at this two years and it can be very stressful, my back aches from so much sitting, the cost of wear and tear to the car is unreal. Hoping to get something closer to home (max I'll do is 45 mins) and will gladly take a reduction in wages. I love my house and where I live too much to move closer to my work.

Elemonator · 28-11-2018 2:32pm

Anything over an hour I'd say.

I used to give out about having to travel to Dublin on the train and walk which took about an hour. Now that I'm stuck on a bus to college that takes 1.5 hours (without traffic) and a walk to cover 26km I realise how lucky I was.

It's actually more of an issue in Dublin I've found than elsewhere. If I was in Europe I'd just take the metro or train.

How much of a commute is too much

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