Can work expect you to travel 2.5 hours to work and 2.5 hours back ?

duchy

Surely you knew this was coming as your lift to work would inevitably be taking annual leave at some point ?

It would definitely be worth spending the weekend on trial runs on the bike so you are familiar with the route rather than risking unexpected surprises on Monday morning !

DCFC79

Surely you knew this could happen at some point in the future eg not having a car and having to car share.
Its your responsibility to get to work, how you do that is your choice.

DCFC79

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Would it be possible to use taxi to get to the nearest station on the line which goes to your work? Taxi isn't limited by public transport routes?

Do this OP, look at getting a weekly pass for the train journey and think about a discount for the taxi part of the journey.

k12479

Deleted%20User wrote: »

LOL!! Not been my experience.

Can you read some of the threads on here that has been about commutability issues...

...the vast majority of employers now do not want people travelling

I was offered 12 hour shifts

I did also like the £8.00 odd per hour though!

With respect, you can't extrapolate the employment conditions of shift work and £8/hr jobs to the 'vast majority' of employers. Similarly, threads complaining about commutes is just anecdotal and proves nothing, people are hardly going to start a thread "My commute is quite long but my employer is ok with it".

eamon

Quite likely its a newish industrial park just on the edge of nowhere.

[Deleted User]

k12479 wrote: »

With respect, you can't extrapolate the employment conditions of shift work and £8/hr jobs to the 'vast majority' of employers. Similarly, threads complaining about commutes is just anecdotal and proves nothing, people are hardly going to start a thread "My commute is quite long but my employer is ok with it".

Who cares, I sincerely hope the OP got sorted regardless

k12479

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Who cares...

Not sure, but I imagine even fewer care about your last contribution.

silverwhistle

Well, the OP hasn't come back to tell us how they sorted out the problem. Perhaps they got lost or are just too embarassed to admit how easy it was to cycle.. Joking aside, it's always nice to know that somebody has sorted themselves out..

beth.stephenson2009

maninthestreet wrote: »

OP - please explain to everyone how it takes 3 bus journeys, a train journey and 2.5 to 3 hours to travel a distance of just 6.6 miles??

The town I used to work in is only 3/4 miles away, but I lived in an isolated village with no bus to said town. I'd have to get a bus to either two villages away (20 mins) or to the other nearby town (30 mins) to catch the bus to the town I worked in. From the village I'd have to go to it would take at least 45 minutes because it goes all around the houses- and from the town it would be at least an hour.

So a journey that I can make in the car in under 10 minutes takes over an hour (and that's just travel time- not included waiting time) by PT.

patchwork_cat

Which bus would get you closest and walk from there? TO all those saying how can it take that long, I hazard a guess that you live in cities, I could see certain situations where I live that a 6 mile journey could take quite a long time by public transport here.