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[Natetan]

30 minutes door to door is what I allocate. 5-10min walk to the subway, 10-15min on the subway and then 5min walk to the office.

I take two trains, but the transfer is amazing. Basically walk like 50 meters up a flight of stairs im done. My line is pretty uncrowded too; i can get a seat sometimes even.

 

[Angry Fork]

Spent 4 years traveling from Bronx to middle of nowhere Brooklyn, 2nd to last stop, one transfer in between. Took an hour and a half or 2 hours if trains were slow for $9 per hour lol. I did full time for the first 2 years then part time. 3-4 hours per day lost on travel alone but I spent a lot of it reading so it wasn't all lost.

Some days in the summer I hated knowing there would be a packed train with inconsiderate assholes who didn't use deodorant but overall it wasn't so bad. If public transportation was free (like it should be) I'd have no problem with it but MTA/NYC loves to fuck people over raising prices every couple years now because they know they can get away with it.

 

[ido]

I feel terrible for people with long commutes. I respect the fuck out of you people.

I am the EMS(Energy Management Systems) guy at a college... about 3 miles away from my house. I will never, ever, ever complain about my job or commute.

But seriously, some of you people deserve a medal, and a raise.

 

[mujun]

I live in big city Japan (Osaka) where commutes can be crappy. I have had some long ones in the past but for the last 4 years I've had a good one.

1. 5 minutes by bike to the station.
2. 18 minute train ride (on a train that is empty when I board it).
3. 2 minute walk to the school I work at.

25 minutes door to door with little or no need to wade through crowds or rush.

 

[Zapages]

45 to an hour depending on traffic. It can be a bit more depending on the parking lot situation.

 

[WrenchNinja]

About 2 hours. Its not so bad, get a lot of additional reading done.

 

[dralla]

Well I've got 2 jobs. 1 is about half a mile away, so 50 second drive or so. Second is about 15 minutes. Not too bad. I consider myself on the lucky side

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

About an hour and 50 mins. a day.

 

[TheClimaxan]

Driving 30 minutes to and fro. I love it for the most part, allows me time to wake up in the morning and decompress on the way home. Although it does suck for when I want to socialize with work peeps during happy hour

 

[ido]

About 2 hours. Its not so bad, get a lot of additional reading done.

Holy shit.

Just holy shit.

You are better than me, real talk.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

I chose to live in an apartment across the street from my workplace. Fuck wasting all that time.

 

[artist]

About 3 hrs on average, could be more or less depending on the day of time I leave.

edit: And I drive, not talking about public transport commute.

 

[Mik2121]

I live in big city Japan (Fukuoka).... and it's 15 mins walk from door to door. I should get a bike though, then it would be under 10 minutes.
Also, if it's freezing cold outside, 3-5 minutes walk to the bus stop, 5 minute bus ride, 1 minute to the office. Not bad

 

[amrihua]

About 7-10 minutes cycling in rarely good but mostly awful weather.

 

[Shawsie64]

An hour each way in my little rickety miata

 

[archnemesis]

3 minutes of walking, 6 minutes of subway, and then another 15 minutes of walking. If the weather is terrible I can take a bus the last step.

 

[Hellcrow]

5 min with skateboard, 10-15 min walk.

 

[Tamanon]

10 minute drive with never having traffic. Only perk to living/working in a small town.

 

[secretanchitman]

used be to an hour and a half, now its less than 10 minutes.

 

[jamesinclair]

11 minute walk, 5 minutes if the free bus happens to be going by.

 

[t26]

56 miles. About 1 hour with no traffic, 1 hour and 45 min with bad traffic.

 

[Leeness]

Around an hour or so, depending on traffic. Not that bad, except it's through the gross areas of the city.

I had someone hacking obnoxiously into my hair a while ago, and also stepped off the bus at one of my transfers to someone running around the exchange, waving a knife and screaming while cop cars poured in.

It's entertaining at least.

 

[Cdammen]

An hour one way if everything works as it should, when it is snowing it can take up to two hours. If the trains are a little bit I miss my buss and have take a 30 minute walk home or wait 30 minutes for the next one. I have work mates that complain about 10 minutes... walking distance.

 

[TransTrender]

Commute shouldn't be that bad, but crappy drivers make it much worse than it needs to be.

11 miles each way. From about 7AM to 10AM it takes about 30-45 min to get to work. The wild card is if someone decides to wreck themselves and then things get much worse.

Getting home between 5PM and 7PM takes no more than 30min, and after 7PM it can go down to 15-20 min.

It just depends on how slow everyone is going that day. Usually the sheeple pace each other, so one slow car means all cars go slow and you hit every traffic light. If you can work to the front of the pack you can travel the speed limit and then you go with the light synchronization.

I would live closer to work but the media house price is $600,000 :/

 

[The Albatross]

Mine is between 40 mins and an hour usually. 40 minutes without traffic on an easy day, an hour with traffic. Usually not more than an hour. I used to have a ~6 minute commute, but I traded it for another job with this commute.

 

[Jhoan]

Spent 4 years traveling from Bronx to middle of nowhere Brooklyn, 2nd to last stop, one transfer in between. Took an hour and a half or 2 hours if trains were slow for $9 per hour lol. I did full time for the first 2 years then part time. 3-4 hours per day lost on travel alone but I spent a lot of it reading so it wasn't all lost.

Some days in the summer I hated knowing there would be a packed train with inconsiderate assholes who didn't use deodorant but overall it wasn't so bad. If public transportation was free (like it should be) I'd have no problem with it but MTA/NYC loves to fuck people over raising prices every couple years now because they know they can get away with it.

Hahaha, the summer does suck for NYC's transit system. The MTA are trolling us by raising the prices every 2 years. It's ridiculous. They just implemented the advertisements in front of the Metrocards yesterday. For an agency that's supposedly strapped for cash, they sure do bring in a lot of money. It seems that the money that get has been used on dumb stuff.

As for me, about 45 minutes every day to class at the Upper East Side. I take 3 trains every day to get down there. I've gotten used to it having been there for about 2.5 years now. I typically read, draw people, or listen to music on the commute. The only thing I hate is that I have to walk down 2 corridors every time I make the trip. Also the fact that the 7 train takes too damn long to leave the station or the 6 train will skip my stop once in a while forcing me to walk.

 

[linko9]

10 min walk. It's great.

 

[lastplayed]

Anywhere from 9 minutes to 50 minutes drive each way, depending on the earthquake repairs happening that week.

 

[Egnirys]

Before I went back to school, I commuted ~6 hours a day give or take how bad traffic was on 880 in the SF Bay Area. I lived in Mountain View, but worked in West Oakland so driving was hell during peak hours. I would have taken BART but there would be times that I would have to work extra late at the last minute and I didn't feel safe walking to the station at 3am, or really any time. I would walk out of my office building and the block would have cop cars lined up because someone shot someone and was on the run.

 

[Loki]

~55 minutes door to door by train, 25-35 minutes by car when I drive in, which is rare.

 

[Ianan]

One 20 minute bus journey into the city centre, one hour on a train then about a 15minute walk. Expensive and it sucks.

 

[stldave2]

Should only take 15 seconds to go downstairs, but usually it takes more like 40 minutes because the process goes as such: Snooze, Snooze, Snooze, Finally turn off alarm, Count from 60-0, restart and count from 30-0, restart again and count from 10-0 and stretch it out super long, check my email/twitter/facebook/forums with only one eye open, finally roll out of bed... THEN trudge down the stairs.

 

[wickedcapedkid]

I commute from Shitamachi to Shinagawa by train. Usually takes around 40 minutes. Thankfully, while Japanese trains do tend to be pretty crowded, I've yet to experience the face-pressed-against -the-glass myth people seem to always talk about during rush hour. It's actually not too bad. I leave around 7 am, always able to get a seat, sleep for about 25 minutes, wait to change trains, hop on the JR line and then I'm pretty much there.

 

[GCX]

20 minutes in a subway and 5 minutes walk.

 

[Vicros]

I live about three and a half blocks from work, so a five minute walk at most.

I still drive most days, especially when there is snow on the ground.

 

[lacinius]

Just under an hour one way by bus, which brings its own special kind of hell. :\

But it beats paying $10 per day to park my car at my own risk. Not included is the gas and wear and tear on my car. Plus I get to register my car as a "pleasure vehicle" instead of an "all purpose" to and from work kind of car. Total savings back into my pocket is about $2700 each year, so there is that. But still, that almost does not make riding the bus tolerable, even less so now that Winter is Coming.

 

[Bossun]

Right now, 2 minutes by bicycle, fairly cool.

When I'm going to college : 45 minutes by tram, now tram is awesome, being outside and seeing the scenery. Also I love it with my music on and a book, impervious to the outside world.

 

[UFRA]

4 minutes, all city driving.

 

[baekshi]

2 mins at most by walking...

 

[Buttons]

10 minute walk to the station, 25 minute train ride to the city, 5 minute subway ride to my university campus. Not bad at all, considering it takes me just as long to university as some of my friends who live in the city. I just read on my Kindle and the time flies by.

 

[Sobriquet]

It depends on where I have to work that day. Usually an hour or so, but sometimes up to two. If I'm working close, then a half an hour. Los Angeles.

 

[Addnan]

Takes about 35-50mins depending on the time I need to get to Uni.

Need to get into a busy part of London (Angel) and so if I need to get there early its not so fun. After 9:30 its pretty easy though, most people are at work so the public transport is empty.

 

[Kiarushka]

Three hours. Public transportation sucks.

Half an hour otherwise.

 

[Forgotten_Taco]

45 minutes on agood day and an hour and a half if I have to go in during rush hour.

Should only take 15 seconds to go downstairs, but usually it takes more like 40 minutes because the process goes as such: Snooze, Snooze, Snooze, Finally turn off alarm, Count from 60-0, restart and count from 30-0, restart again and count from 10-0 and stretch it out super long, check my email/twitter/facebook/forums with only one eye open, finally roll out of bed... THEN trudge down the stairs.

You're the devil.

 

[krameriffic]

45 to an hour depending on traffic. It can be a bit more depending on the parking lot situation.

This is about what I'm looking at once I start my job unless I can piece together a way to move out there before (which I have ever intention of doing. I hate commuting, so I'm gonna end up 5 minutes away once I pick out an apartment.

 

[Izayoi]

80 miles a day, but I work on off hours so there's no traffic. Doesn't take much longer than 30-40 minutes.

$16 a day in gas is brutal, though.

 

[Apath]

I have to take the train to get to school in the city, and it's about a 25 minute drive to the train station, but it can take 30 minutes if traffic is bad and I have no luck with the lights. On monday/wednesday I have class at 9:40, so I leave at 8:15 and catch the 9:00 train, and then I get to school at around 9:35 which gives me a little time to hurry to class. This is actually really quick since the train I take is an express line that runs until 9:00, so I cut a good amount on my commute. The return trip takes about an hour since it's not express, and I need to connect to another train that takes me back to my car.

On tuesday/thursday I have class in the downtown area, so not only do I not have access to the express route, but I need to ride an extra 20 minutes compared to where I get off for my Mon/Wed classes. I leave at 1:20 and come back at 6:30 for an hour and a half long class.

I just got a condo in the city however, so once the current tenants move out and I move in, my commute will be about 5 minutes on mon/wed, and 25 minutes on tues/thurs.

10 minute walk to the station, 25 minute train ride to the city, 5 minute subway ride to my university campus. Not bad at all, considering it takes me just as long to university as some of my friends who live in the city. I just read on my Kindle and the time flies by.

The Kindle really is a Godsend for long train rides. I've actually been so engrossed that I didn't even notice that the train was stopped and empty, and that I needed to get off until a CTA worker came by and yelled at me.

 

[Iksenpets]

Live 3 miles from work, takes about 12 minutes in rush hour traffic with construction on the road. I used to do a fifty minute commute each day and I pretty much hated my life. It's all city driving though, so my cars average gas mileage has plummeted from all the stop and go.

 

[Atenhaus]

About an hour via a commuter train.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

~8 min bike ride followed by around 35 on the bus. My bus is a less popular route so usually get a seat. that plus kindle = I wish it was longer sometimes.

getting a car in the next 6 months, then it should be quite a bit better, but rush hour can be nasty getting out of town. I live on the edge, so I'm hoping not too bad.