What's your work commute? POLE!!!

[videogames101]

drive 1.3 miles, less than 5 min.

'bout this for me

 

[uclaLabrat]

30 miles/day ~ an hour in traffic.

I can't complain because my gf has a 70mi round trip commute from OC to LA and she spends roughly 3hr/day sitting in traffic.

I did Costa Mesa to UCLA for 4 years during grad school...that sucked out loud. Luckily for me I was working long enough and flexible hours traffic wasn't USUALLY a problem, except for that time it took like 3.5 hours to get home when there was an accident in long beach....


Currently I drive 37 miles one way if I take HWY 37 (Satan's asshole) or about 42 miles if I go through Napa. It generally takes an hour each way, unless the 37 is closed because some fuckwit decides to take their semi swimming and close down the 37. That took me 3.5 hours to get home through Napa.

Seriously. CalTrans needs to widen the fucking 37 already. Like 20 years ago.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Fuck that. I used to commute anywhere from 75 miles to 130 miles per day. I could always count on at least 4 hours per day of driving...usually closer to 6 hours. (on top of working 10-12 hours or more)

My last job was 97 miles from my driveway to the jobsite parking lot. MOST of it on I-580. That's one part of working I DO NOT miss...

101-580-80 is my backup route home, when the 37 is a shitshow. It's not really much of a a backup.

 

[BoomerD]

101-580-80 is my backup route home, when the 37 is a shitshow. It's not really much of a a backup.

Definitely not. I used to have to drive from Foster City to Petaluma once a week in a boom truck. I HAD to use 80/37/Lakeville to avoid some of the truck scales...I MIGHT have been "just a bit" overweight as I went down the road...()

 

[uclaLabrat]

Definitely not. I used to have to drive from Foster City to Petaluma once a week in a boom truck. I HAD to use 80/37/Lakeville to avoid some of the truck scales...I MIGHT have been "just a bit" overweight as I went down the road...()

I work in Novato (just south of the 37) and we'd love to be in Petaluma in the near future. No way we can afford Novato or San Rafael anytime soon, but until we can move to the west side, the 37 is my red headed slut.

 

[stevty2889]

20 miles, 35-45 minutes depending on traffic (close to home said traffic may be tractors or cows, closer to work said traffic is do to some poorly placed/timed traffic lights). On occasion it can take 1.5-2 hours if there is an accident, as about 14 of the 20 miles is a single lane each direction.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For those bored, I videoed my commute for another thread once. No idea if this video will actually work, it has a bunch of copyright claims because the radio was playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zWK8s21PI

 

[BoomerD]

I work in Novato (just south of the 37) and we'd love to be in Petaluma in the near future. No way we can afford Novato or San Rafael anytime soon, but until we can move to the west side, the 37 is my red headed slut.

I used to work occasionally for a crane and rigging contractor in Novato. Long fucking drive for me. (I lived in Turlock at the time) I never wanted to be hired full time with them. Just TOO FAR.

 

[Deeko]

Fuck that. I used to commute anywhere from 75 miles to 130 miles per day. I could always count on at least 4 hours per day of driving...usually closer to 6 hours. (on top of working 10-12 hours or more)

My last job was 97 miles from my driveway to the jobsite parking lot. MOST of it on I-580. That's one part of working I DO NOT miss...

It's not as bad as it sounds. The portion on Amtrak, I can work, so that's incorporated into my actual work day. Then I'm only in the office for about 5-6 hours or so. Door to door, I leave around 7:40 AM and get home at 6:15 PM. Could be worse.

 

[dingster1]

For those that live 5 miles or less from work, why do you drive? Don't you know that's very bad for your car? Well, that's unless you're leasing and DGAF.

Because I work nights, female, crazy people

 

[CZroe]

For those that live 5 miles or less from work, why do you drive? Don't you know that's very bad for your car? Well, that's unless you're leasing and DGAF.

You act like everyone has options like busses and sidewalks. We don't.

Not nearly everyone has time to waste walking or lives in a bike-friendly city/town. I would absolutely ruin my shoes walking in grass every day and would cumulatively waste more hours of my life than I am comfortable with. Add the fact that I now have to be familiar with the weather before and after work and I won't be able to go get breakfast of drive somewhere else to do errands on my lunch break and you have a thoroughly bad idea.

Thanks. I like being able to sleep later and do things the night before.

Also, context matters. Just because your work commute is short doesn't mean you never use the car to go get groceries or go out of town on your days off or whatever. When they say it's bad for your car they are saying that it's bad if your car never gets driven more than that. That pretty much only happens in multi-car households where there is a different car that gets used in those situations. If the wife's car is just for her to get to work and she lives less than 15 minutes away then there *might* be a problem.

 

[DrPizza]

Wouldn't time of commute have been a better metric than distance? 4.5 miles, under 5 minutes from parking spot to parking spot. For others in metropolitan areas, 4.5 miles could be a half hour commute.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

This thread doesn't acknowledge that some of us due part time telecommute, so the first option would be paired with one that correctly expresses those conditions when we are not telecommuting.

For instance, I can telecommute X days a week, but not every day. And on days I am commuting it is >30 miles and sometimes in traffic. Some peers have to go into the office sometimes (like me), but it is during the day, which means 90-120 minutes of one-way commute for 30-35 travel.

Fuck Atlanta!

 

[Demo24]

3 miles, takes 5-10mins depending on lights. Nice thing is being able to go home for lunch, or just whenever necessary. However, I've generally had 20-30 min commutes and it's going to be hard going back to that.

Technically I could bike it, but traffic is a bit busy along that section and with quite a large hill in the way I just don't feel up to it at 8am in the morning.

 

[stargazr]

22 miles, 30-35 minutes on I-35. Trucks. Lots and lots of trucks. Not too bad though, I leave the city for work when most traffic is coming in.

 

[Ferrari355]

5.5 miles. It usually takes around 10-15 minutes to get to work.

 

[soulcougher73]

About 20 miles to work. 22-25mins. Pretty much no traffic both ways.

 

[CZroe]

About 20 miles to work. 22-25mins. Pretty much no traffic both ways.

Then why are you averaging ~1MPH?

 

[nageov3t]

1. drive 5 miles to the train station (no traffic, 1 stop sign, and maybe 2 traffic lights that I always hit)
2. take the train into Penn Station NYC
3. walk 1 mile from Penn Station to my office (could also take a cross-town bus or subway, but time-wise it'd practically be the same and I like getting in the exercise)

total time: a little over 1.5 hours.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Then why are you averaging ~1MPH?

Uh, he's doing 1 mile/minute which is 60 MPH? Ok, he's doing like 55. Sounds pretty decent for rush hour.

 

[BxgJ]

Then why are you averaging ~1MPH?

20 miles to work @ 1mph would be 20 hours....

 

[SKORPI0]

I work in Novato (just south of the 37) and we'd love to be in Petaluma in the near future. No way we can afford Novato or San Rafael anytime soon, but until we can move to the west side, the 37 is my red headed slut.

OMG, Highway 37/Sears Point road is a nightmare to drive through during rush hours. Passed by Petaluma and Novato just to visit Bodega Bay- Jan.25th and Point Reyes -Jan 27th. :\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLOciCIRb40

 

[William Gaatjes]

1 hour and 5 minutes for a 23 mile trip. A total of 2 hours and 10 minutes daily.
But i do not have to drive, since i got my private chaffeurs. I just sleep, have a conversation or do some reading on my phone.

 

[soulcougher73]

Then why are you averaging ~1MPH?

I dont?

About 10 miles of it is 45mph road. And the other 10 is anywhere from 60-75mph freeway. But there isnt much traffic on it.

 

[CZroe]

20 miles to work @ 1mph would be 20 hours....

Kool, man. Translation: oops