How long does your daily commute normally take?

How long does your commute take each way?

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  • 10 -> 30 mins

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  • 30 -> 50 mins

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  • 50 -> 1hr30m

    Votes: 15 14.9%

  • 1hr30m +

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So I'm just finishing off my PhD and I've been luckily enough to be offered a job in roughly the same geographical area. This means I don't need to leave the social aspects of my life behind like my friends and current rugby club. The only thing is most of social life is South Manchester/City Centre, and I'm going to be working north of Manchester.

So I reckon I'm going to be faced with a 40 min commute each way, so I was just wondering what sort of commuting times people have and see if the commute is feasible.
 
Mine takes me just shy of an hour. It's not the distance, it's the roads for me...sheer weight of traffic. I've been doing it so long now I barely give it a thought unless something goes hideously wrong lol.
 
My current commute is by car and takes about 50 minutes in a morning and about 40 in the evening. Due to taking a different route in the morning for ease of traffic, it's about 36 miles and 26 miles respectively.

Like ruth, I've been doing the same commute for 4 years and before that a slightly longer one (moved home) and don't give it another thought now, unless there is a problem in which case I have several alternative escape routes on back roads I can get onto in most cases.
 
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Door to door, ten minutes.

Perfect!

Good luck with the new job James.
 
redddraggon said:
So I'm just finishing off my PhD and I've been luckily enough to be offered a job in roughly the same geographical area. This means I don't need to leave the social aspects of my life behind like my friends and current rugby club. The only thing is most of social life is South Manchester/City Centre, and I'm going to be working north of Manchester.

So I reckon I'm going to be faced with a 40 min commute each way, so I was just wondering what sort of commuting times people have and see if the commute is feasible.
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My best friends commute takes 2hrs each way. He's done the same trip for the last nine years. Mine is less than ten mins.
 
15 mins in the car, 30 mins on the bike or about 90 mins to walk - it's roughly 5 miles (depending on method of transport).
 
6 miles to work, I once managed it in 7 minutes flat in my old Rally Car. These days it takes 10 if I get a perfectly clear run or 15-20 if there's the usual dawdling tourists/traffic in the village.
 
Didsbury to centre of Manchester used to be a mare on the bus varying from 20 to 60 minutes. I'd often walk part of the way probably without any overall impact on the time.
 
redddraggon said:
So I'm just finishing off my PhD and I've been luckily enough to be offered a job in roughly the same geographical area. This means I don't need to leave the social aspects of my life behind like my friends and current rugby club. The only thing is most of social life is South Manchester/City Centre, and I'm going to be working north of Manchester.

So I reckon I'm going to be faced with a 40 min commute each way, so I was just wondering what sort of commuting times people have and see if the commute is feasible.
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IN my late teens and early 20s, I would regularly do the same commute, and this was in the days before the M60[?] was complete, and they had about 2 yrs of road works over Barton Bridge, making it even longer. Don't worry, its doable, though do a few test runs at the same times of day, make sure you don't arrive late on your first day :lol:

I now live in London, where commutes in daily traffic have to be seen to be beleieved :eek: I ticked less than 10 mins though, as it takes a few minutes to stagger out of bed, down stairs, and to find my desk :D
 
Mine varies as I work out of different offices.

Home - 0 miles
Perth - 8 miles (15 mins each way)
Dundee - 25 miles (25 mins each way)
Edinburgh - 45 miles (1 hour each way)
Glasgow - 75 miles (1.5 hours each way )
Aberdeen - 100 miles (2 hours each way)
Inverness - 125 miles (2.5 hours each way)

Fortunately Dundee is classed as my normal place of work so further locations mean I claim 45p per mile.
 
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Thirty minutes on a bus - means that I can sleep most of the way!


Steve.
 
Mine probably takes me 3 seconds to walk from my bedroom door to my home office - although I can do it in 1 second if there's nobody standing in the hall way
 
If your commute is less than 10 minutes by car, get on a bike you lazy bar stewards.
 
joescrivens said:
Mine probably takes me 3 seconds to walk from my bedroom door to my home office - although I can do it in 1 second if there's nobody standing in the hall way
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yeah but the toilet isnt really a work place :lol:
 
DorsetDude said:
If your commute is less than 10 minutes by car, get on a bike you lazy bar stewards.
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and do what with the dog ? ( i don't think she'd like trying one of those child trailers)
 
mine is 19 miles door to door, Wakefield to Bradford on the M62 am lucky to do it in an hr, and it drives me nuts!!

ETA thats on a clear run, if there is something broken down or an accident anything up to 3hrs and thats knowing all the rat runs
 
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4.2 mile door to door.
Bus takes 30-35mins and if biking I can do it in 17mins
 
17 miles and 45-50 minutes each way.
A 40 minute trip is definitely manageable IMO.

To add to what Yv said, check out your route at different times of day too.
Traffic makes a huge difference. Outside of rush hour I can do door to door in just under 20 minutes and if I started work at 9:00 instead of 8:00 it would take me over an hour.
Do you have any flexibility with working hours?


My previous job was an hour and a half each way and after 18 months of it that sort of travel really grinds you down.
 
SarahLee said:
My previous job was an hour and a half each way and after 18 months of it that sort of travel really grinds you down.
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yep , definitely that - my previous job I commuted daily from south of swindon to east of oxford about 1hr 45 mins on a good run - over 2 in the rush hour

my current commute takes between 10 and 20 minutes, except for the day when I meet a flock of sheep :lol:
 
My commute is 46 miles which takes about 50 minutes to an hour which I don't think is too bad. I'm just glad the motorway is so quiet. If I take a different route which is 10 miles shorter, it can take 40 minutes or more than an hour since there are idiots that won't even think about doing the speed limit and it's rare to get any opportunity to overtake! I always go the longer but more consistent way.
 
15 minutes at the most :)
Considered cycle to work but its mainly dual carriageway would not feel safe
Am too lazy anyway!
 
neil_g said:
i chose the wrong option, should have chosen 1hr30m+ not 50 -> 1hr30m.

1h10m on the train plus walking time to/from stations.
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Changed it for you

I'm the same, mine is just a little over 1 hr 30 except in the summer when it's 1 hr 05 :D
 
new2me said:
Didsbury to centre of Manchester used to be a mare on the bus varying from 20 to 60 minutes. I'd often walk part of the way probably without any overall impact on the time.
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I do Fallowfield to the University right now, and it takes me about 30mins door to door, for about 3 miles, and I hate it when the undergraduates are around, the buses suck.

Yv said:
IN my late teens and early 20s, I would regularly do the same commute, and this was in the days before the M60[?] was complete, and they had about 2 yrs of road works over Barton Bridge, making it even longer. Don't worry, its doable, though do a few test runs at the same times of day, make sure you don't arrive late on your first day :lol:

I now live in London, where commutes in daily traffic have to be seen to be beleieved :eek: I ticked less than 10 mins though, as it takes a few minutes to stagger out of bed, down stairs, and to find my desk :D
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I've been looking at Didsbury/Withington towards the city centre, but I'm going to be working near Rochdale. I'd like to live on the Oxford Road corridor for the late night public transport I think. I know if I lived North of Manchester I'd lose a lot of contact with everything I do now.

SarahLee said:
Do you have any flexibility with working hours?
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I don't think I will, but I'll have to be in by 0745 every day, and I'll be doing the reverse of the normal commuters so I hope I miss most of the traffic.

david357 said:
Good luck with the new job James.
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Thanks!
 
10-15 minutes for me,some friends of mine take over a day, train to Aberdeen,plane to the shetlands and then chopper to oilrigg
 
Difficult for me to say. I live near Bournemouth but my patch for work is lands end to Dover and upto Banbury and all of London so can be anything from 10 mins to 4 or 5 hours before I start work.
 
My daily commute is just over 17 miles each way.

If I leave home at 7am I'm normally in the office at around 7:35am, leaving at 16:00 I'm normally home by 16:45 however......... If you leave after 07:30 it's at least 45mins (on a good day) and leaving work at 17:00 would see me getting home at about 18:00.
 
Mines pretty similar to Russ, 17 miles each way. Countryside B roads all the way, so a good run can be 20 minutes, a bad one double that if you get stuck behind something slow.
 
20 minute walk.

if I take the car it can be anything from 5mins to 15 depending on the traffic and parking at work is a nightmare.
 
15min walk or 2hours via car and company aircraft... depends on where they want me...
 
My commute is about 1.5 miles and takes about 3 minutes.. I could walk, or bike..

But I pay for insuance, tax, servicing, fuel and the car, so I'll use the car!
 
Steve, didn't say I take the car only how long it takes if I take the car !

I walk to work 4 days out of 5. Only take the car once a week as I work near a supermarket and do shopping straight after work one day.
 
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20-30 minutes driving to work on A and B roads and country lanes, getting home again is a longer distance but takes 15 minutes using dual carriageway and M25. Relocatting at end of next month, one site could take fractionally longer due to being an extra mile, but if I'm fortunate to move to my preferred location, it's straight down a dual carriageway and will take 10 mins tops.
 
big soft moose said:
and do what with the dog ? ( i don't think she'd like trying one of those child trailers)
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mine does - well, she hates it really but likes the end result lol, she's too old to walk far so I'm always off out on my bike with her. I actually changed my job so I could cycle to work, before this it was a 40 mile commute :(


biking by moominmama, on Flickr

dog is 25kg, trailer is ~20kg - am pretty fit lugging that lot around ha ha
 
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