Your daily commute

beecher2

1hr 15 minutes each way - two bus journeys and half an hour's walk. Summer's easy but winter is a bit of a slog as leave home at 7am which means I don't see daylight for a number of months.
Costs £25/week

jimmy2times

I can't drive, so I tend to only go for jobs that are very close to my house.
My last job was about a 5 minute walk!
Being a minimum wage earner, if I have to spend too much money on travel it's barely worth working

steevi

It costs me about £15 a week in petrol - it's 6 miles each way and takes about 20/25 minutes.

ajsexton

Approx £25-30 a week, 18 mile each way in the car - 30-35 minutes each way

lazer

45 minutes to an hour door to door.

Costs about £30 to £40 a week - although getting a deisel car this week, so hopefully fuel costs will fail

roobee13

Mornings - 40 mins door to door involving a 5ish min walk, 30 min bus journey and a 5 min walk the other side.

My bus home goes from the very first stop and I spend so long sat around waiting that I decided to start walking home! It takes about 50 mins but clears my head and saves me money too

My 5 bus journeys in each week cost me £7.50

Suarez

45 mins to 1 hour depending on traffic

Costs about £8-£10 a day in fuel

60 mile round trip.

Wouldn't want to go any further as this commute is doing my head in!

CKgeordieinlondon

I'm very lucky It takes me 22 minutes to walk to work.

So it costs me nothing.

Its the only thing my job has going for it really, but its a big plus so I stick with. Even were I to get a better paid job the fares would soon gobble up the difference

I used to have a commute that involved a a 20 minute tube journey , then 15 minutes on the train, then a 20 minute bus finished by a 15 minute walk. Pure hell.

wishus

I leave the house at 7 to get buses to get to work for 8.30. Work starts 9am, but there are no later buses to get there on time. I finish at 5, then wait 30 minutes for a bus, which is generally 15 minutes late anyway. I get into town at 6.30 or so, and depending on whether the 'or so' = too late for my next bus, either get that or walk. So, generally 4 hours' travel... bus pass is £100 a month. Occasionally if there's a no-show I have to get the train from town at £8.80 and there's usually one of those per month.

cherryblossomzel

marlot wrote: »

2.5 hours to work, 3 hours coming home by train. Been doing this for 18 months now, and getting rather tired of it.

£42.50 each day (splitting my ticket in good MSE fashion) is actually quite good value for the distance I travel (Hampshire to Warwickshire).

:eek: I think this might kill me. I hate commuting and like someone else said previously, have been known to move house because my commute was too long (at all of 10 miles, but traffic was rubbish).

Currently I do about 7.5 miles each way, takes about 20 minutes in the car and costs around £10-12 per week, I think. I really should cycle, but I think the roads around here are lethal.