How long is your commute to work?

Sparx

About 5 minutes in my car.. While believe it or not, 40 minutes if I walked! That is because I can not walk over the short A roads to get to work which is just of the A180 near me meaning I'd have to take the long route and go around the A roads to get there, thank god for my car..

Amanita_2

About an hour each way ( 42 miles) by car. Not possible by public transport.

I've been doing it for 5 years now.

amyb_2

A thirty min walk, and then approx 45 mins on the train. I have to leave about 1hr 50mins before i start work though as the train is only one an hour!

Depressngly if i drove it would take 25-30 mins.

pippaaaaaaa

it's about 13 miles, but it takes 25 minutes minimum, sometimes as much as 50 due to animals on the road and, especially during summer, a high influx of tourists who don't give a toss about speed limits and pootle along at their own casual pace, holding people up :x

Mini_Bear

Mine currently is 15min drive, 35min train then 30min tube and 5min walk. It is tough if one part of the journey has delays as i rely on so many forms of transport.
i would say 1-1 1/2hr on train is completely fine if its one form of transport perhaps with a little walk. also depends on your working hours ie if its 9-5 thats fine - if its 8 - 6.30 (like mine) you don't have an awful lot of time left in the day!

thriftytracey

30 - 35 minutes (22 miles) this improved after I changed jobs internally and can now pick my hours (8 - 4.30pm) which reduced the commuting time and I can now WFH for two days a week. The WFH is a fantastic benefit in my opinion, saves money on petrol, wear and tear on the car, saves time and I have more energy at the end of the day. Only downside is a little bit lonely and you have to have the heating on in the winter months. My commute is pleasant - country roads and constant speed of 50 - 60mph.

I have done the hour/hour 15 minutes commute earlier in my working life and it exhausted me - I resigned in the end and then spent 2.5 years temping locally before I got a permanent job I didn't regret it though.

Kate78

This is an interesting thread for the nosy (like me).

My commute is 16 miles each way, takes 25 mins at the moment (as school is out), but once the schoolies are back you can add an extra 5-10 mins onto that. However if you get stuck behind a tractor, all bets are off.

As it happens I took the bus earlier in the week as my car was being repaired. The bus journey takes 45 minutes as you get a tour of all the villages.

When I move next year it will be 1.4 miles. OH currently cycles to work, but I don't know if I'm brave enough to cycle in town, given that I haven't ridden a bike for over 20 years!

Cheery_Daff

I'd say it's doable - I work 9-5, 60 miles away. Leave the house at 6.45am to cycle to the station, train at 7.10, gets in at 8.25 (so 1 hour 15 ish), then cycle at the other end and get to work about 8.50am. I usually check emails, make a cuppa, write out my to do list, and then get changed once I've cooled down a bit Same again on the way home (although the train takes slightly less time on the way back).

I actually don't mind - but then I only do it 2 days a week.. If I was going to do it full time, I think I'd want to be closer to the station at both ends! I know being out of the house 7-7 is nothing to some folk, but I think I'd struggle full time.

What helps me is not to think of it in terms of 'how long is my commute?' I spend around 4 hours travelling each of the days I'm at work - but in that time I've cycled about 10 miles (cheery exercise, fresh air etc, and I'm lucky that some of it is along a river and very pretty), and also had about 2 hours on the train - to read, knit, stare out of the window, take the laptop and work, think, plan, sort out diaries, write letters etc.

I think the trick is planning how to use the time effectively - can you spend the extra time working and then leave work a little early on a Friday? Or if that's not feasible, get some boring thing out of the way that you'd otherwise have to do at home? Or do you want to use it as a little peaceful haven, and read a nice book or whatever? I like planning goals and things to achieve in the coming weeks, and then fitting spaces in the diary to do things Obviously this requires a bit of planning! And booking your ticket in advance (even just the day before) to get a seat, but it's well worth doing so you don't see it as 'dead' time.

clb776

I used to drive for 1 hour and 15 minutes to work each way, if there was traffic it could take 3 - 4 hours!!!! It was either end of a 12 hour shift too and even though the wages were good by the time I had taken into account travel expenses it didn't make it worth it at all!

lee636

Actual travel on public transport is 38 minutes but with a train connection i have to wait about 25 minutes if i cant be !!!!!d to run for the next one so takes about 1:15 hour total, into London and back out again.

Been doing it for 10 months now and the sacrifice of where we now live compared to where we used to/could move to if the travel was a problem is well worth it.