May 29, 2006
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Commute
I was reading on the drudgereport recently that people are making longer and longer drives to and from work. They gave examples of people that were spending up to two hours a day driving to and from work.
When I was going to college in Texas, I was driving an hour each way to work. I felt like I spent half my life in the car. Now it only takes 10 minutes for me to get to work.
How long is your drive to and from work or school?
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30 mins
it was like 5 minutes to school…
3rd!
well in hs it was just about 20 minutes .. but now, it’s four hours to college, but ten minutes to get from the dorm to class
20 minutes
7 minute walk, 2 minute drive
to school? probably 7 minutes =]
but.. i have to pick up my friend so then about 13
I work from home.
25 mins to and from
I live where I work so I no longer have a commute. For many years I had a 17 mile one way commute through the mountains…it was awesome in all seasons. Then there were the years I commuted in the city on a very busy freeway…oh to drive it now would be HORRID!! So funny, I just posted about the Segway…thinking how cool it would be to get around in it. Obviously not the distances you mention here, but in my world from home to office and back it would be very fun.
about 15 min.
I’m lucky, it only takes me 15 min max to get to work. My mom has to drive around an hour and a half each way. Blech.
20-30 mins depending on traffic
a 20 minute walk
5 to 15 minutes one way…
School is about 15 minutes away, depending on how much traffic there is.
Well, Kansas City is known for its issues with traffic and city planning and the fact that it takes for FREAKING ever to get everywhere because I’m sure we’re one of the biggest cities in the US based on person to square milage alone. Freaking ridiculous. So. School is ridiculously close (I’m a commuter) in all relativity to everything else in Kansas City, but it STILL takes me 15 minutes.
Slightly irritating.
Work 15 min drive.
School 20-30 min drive, depending on traffic.
Same drive that took 12 mins. several years ago, now can take 25 to 45 mins. via the same highway – the backroads are the way to go – gotta love sprawl
work is about 5 maybe 8 minutes, school is a good 20 minutes or a half hour depending.
On average, twenty to thirty minutes — oneway. There are about 15 stop lights and a couple railroad tracks along the way. The return trip is in the evening, so it’s a bit quicker.
3 min. to work
3 long minutes!
15
My drive is about 3/10th of a mile. In other words, on the days I walk, its about 5 min. Drive time is about 30 seconds from the time I start my engine, until I’m there.
And I drive it.
Five minutes.
I turned down a job at double the wage simply because of the commute.
About 10 minutes
Not far at all, infact all I must do is pop my feet out of bed and I’m there.
i think this is really important to people now…with the rising gas prices sometimes you can spend more money on gas than you make at your work because of commute.
i just have a 2 mile trek to work.
my drive is only five minutes. my parents, however- their drive is an hour to and from. so about 2 hours a day.
Thirty minutes on bus or ten minutes by cab to university from my apartment. For many years I owned my own business, at first in my business partner’s basement and then in a separate studio downtown.
I think long commutes are socially and environmentally irresponsible. I don’t blame individuals for having to live far from their jobs, but as a society, I think we should look at ways of reversing that trend in the future.
To work – 15 minutes. Could be more depending on traffic.
To school – an hour and a half from my house in GA. 5 mins from my house in Tennessee.
WHERE IN COLLEGE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL??? PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!
Like, 15 minutes in traffic.
3 min
5 minutes to school, not bad
Although I know people who commute to other cities and have two homes!! y
uhmm school?
10 minutes? 5-10 mintutes i think.
but the high school i’m going to in like 2 years is like. 20-30 minutes away
our high schools are seperated into 9-10 and 11-12
in my class alone right now i’m 1 of 919.
my school district is big. O.O
<3 Catrina
can’t drive yet =)
!~nicole~!
30 minutes. Much more than that, and I’d be driving into the Pacific Ocean.
40 minutes to/from school each way.
I drive 20 minutes each way….IF I don’t happen to get behind Farmer Ted, Fred, Ned, Jed, or Bud.
25 minutes
It takes me about 4 minutes to get to school.
I need an hour to commute from home to places I am going but that’s because I live at the far end of the city.
To school, I take the train, from an hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half. I go to a “specialized” high school in NYC. So kids commute from all over the city to go there. Some people even travel 2+ hours. It’s crazy, I tell you.
And my local high school is 10 mins away by walking, and all my friends go there.
7 minutes flat to school.
5 minutes.
23 minutes if there are no trains….
40 min. there and back minimum
I lived at school this year so it was a less than 5 minute walk
Five miles, seven minutes. Very nice.
About a minute…I have to peal myself out of bed and make my way around the corner into the office. (I work from home.) There study doesn’t appear to be holding much water with this crowd, does it? Maybe our short commute times are we why have the time to spend here and those who drive longer are just struggling to find time for themselves, let alone have a blog?
jefbryant rides with me. He says four minutes; I say seven. That’s because he is asleep the first three minutes.
to work about 10 – 15 minutes. 6 if i’m lucky.
to work about 10 – 15 minutes. 6 if i’m lucky.
about 10 mins, and the longest i ever had to drive to school. Since i live about two blocks from my old middle school, and my old elementary school is right across the street.
~ Jasmine ~
my step dads drive is two hours, but he works at a construction site.
1 1/2 minute walk if I go slow, office is in the backyard!
15 minutes, but the traffic jam makes it 40 minutes.
well i just quit my job….ithe commute/gas prices was one of the reason, not to mention the wear and tear on my car…I was driving about an hour and a half total to and from…45 minutes each way…it was about a 70 mile round trip…
lucky people *grumble*
i’m a homeschooler
but my dad who lives in texas’ drive is over an hour each way…but they put in some new highway recently or something so think it’s shortened to under an hour now…but he’s always had long commutes when we lived in ny he had to drive to the train and take it to the city and then walk or cab to work…so that was definately over an hour each way too…maybe 2, can’t remember i was little…that’s life i guess though…
Actually we jsut sold our house and moved not long ago too…close to my hubby’s work…he was commuting the 45 minutes before the move…now he only commutes 8 miles…10 minutes
6-8 minutes, depending on trafffic and lights
17:35 minutes to school.
5 minutes. It’s great.
7 minutes each way
Fifteen minutes to the school I taught at. Thirty-five minutes to the church I serve in. This weekend, eleven hours to paint every room on the main floor of my brother’s house. All of this is one way.
5 min to school if i don’t take a “whip”. 30 sec. to 5 min depending on which job I’m going to.
My commute can be two seconds down the stairs to my home office, or 7 hours to the West Coast from Boston…….I love my job!
Funny you should mention this….I just posted my brothers’ commute. He’s a music minister at a Church in Missouri, about 15 miles north of the College he goes to…HOWEVER.
This summer he is going to have to live at home here in Wichita KS because he got a killer job. So weekly he will be commuting 232 miles there, and thend 232 miles back….I don’t envy him.
7 minutes. 3, if I’m going 100.
larry
7 minutes by car, 17 minutes by school bus.
its 1 hour to get there 1 hour back
about ten minutes.
10 min top
to work: about 30-45 minutes…deps on traffic tho…
Kelly
25 minutes
Less than 5 minutes.
depends on traffic and presence of law officers…
on a normal day with normal traffic and when i obey most speed laws, it takes 25 minutes one way.
when there has been an accident, it takes over an hour and a half.
there is no commute for school, i’m home schooled. however, when i attend college this fall, there will be a 14+ hour drive.
i just resigned from my job too. but when i was employed, the commute was only about 5 minutes….including traffic.
Its true.You do spend half of your life in a vehicle.
Takes me about 20 mins..depending on traffic and suchh.
about 15 minutes
3 min to work, tops =) I love it!
To school… between 3 or 20 minutes. Depends on if I walk, get a ride, run, bike, whatever.
Next year, my school will be about 2 minutes away on foot (right across the street, but I have to go all the way around the school to get to the main entrance).
7 minutes.
almost 2 hrs each way…total about 3.5 hrs/day. LA traffic is a bitch.
RYC In a way: I was talking about when my mom drives.
It takes me 15 minutes to get to and from school. Most places in my town take about 10-20 minutes to get to.
Depends on whether it’s dark when I go home. That’ll add 10 min because I take a longer route.
Eleven minutes.
30 miles to school.
Not far !
Hope you had a good weekend .
Peace and Love:)
I live within walking distance of my office. When I was living at home & going to grade school though, I had to ride the school bus for almost two hours to and from school. It was insane but there was no other option except to homeschool.
it’s about a 20 minute walk to my school
GASP! i’m graduated!
I do neithe rof these, but taking my daughters to school would be about 5 minutes.
My husbands new job is 2 blocks away, like 2 minutes. Hi Dan!
Rain was bad this morning!
Ten or fifteen minutes
Fifteen minutes with traffic, Five without.
Eva.
That would be about 15 minutes…
It is 15 min. for me to get to work and I love it.
~G~
15 minutes to work and 15+ back home from work. lol I uusually have errands to do after work so it takes me longer to get home. lol
9.5 miles, 20 minutes
I’m lucky! It’s just around the corner so it takes me a minute or so to come there… Ha Ha Ha!
About twenty minutes. I have to take a major highway, though, so it highly depends upon traffic.
About 10 min, driving. It’s not that bad – just depends on the lights. Gotta stay away from those moms in mini-vans though!
1 hour to get there, 1:30 to come back, and that’s with GOOD traffic
5 min.
Let’s just say it takes about as long for me to get dressed and walk down as it does for my to get to class. Unless I walk, of course.
my school’s an hour away.
When I was in high school, it was only about 2 minutes, tops.
About 15 minutes.
Hubby’s is 5 minutes. He does poorly with long commutes, so we made sure to get a place near his work.
I used to drive 45 minutes to school 3 times a week in college. I did ok with that, but I can’t imagine driving an hour or more every day to work….
10 minutes: scenic route
7 minutes: highway (no backups)
60 minutes: highway (big backups)
I leave at least 45 minutes before work to take the baby to the sitters and get there on time… I get home about an hour after I get off work and usually dont have to pick up the baby .. the drive home sucks.
ehh, it take me about 5 minutes to get to school, soon to be …8.
my father on the other hand has to drive to a completly other town (about an hour) used to be more before we moved though.
it takes me about 3 minutes to walk to school.
The walk is about 7 minutes.
6 minutes to school… 10 back cuz of traffic. lol
Good news: No commute
Bad news: No work
15-20 min
5 minute walk, unless I hop the fence, then it’s a 3 minute walk. if I had a zip cord (from my 5th floor apartment into my school, next door) it would be a 30 second trip. but I’m lucky, my school provides housing and most of the teachers live within 5 minutes of school.
when I lived in Texas, it was a 45 minute commute for most of college, and a 45 minute drive to work for a year and a half after college.
7 or 10 minutes to work.
I really need my own car. . .
My ride to school is about 15 minutes. I really wish it was more. I ride with my girlfriend.
~Stix
About 10-20 minutes.
5 miles (10 minutes) one way.
20 minutes.
including the stop for smokes and the assumption that i observe and respect the speed limit, 35-40 mins….
an hour in the morning.. about 30 minutes when i go home
10-15 usually. Not too bad.
I used to walk to the job I had before this one. That was sweet. Only a few blocks away and a nice walk through the neighborhood. Ah, good times.
i wake up. clear my eyeballs, walk across the hall from my bedroom and BAM! I’m at work. although when i do go into the office, it takes me about an hour on the train.
aboot 5.
10 minute drive to work. and a 2 minute drive to school; but i often bike to school, which takes about 6 or 7 minutes.
about 2 1/2 hours to school, each way. I go to an art school in Denver and moving up there right now is a slight impossibility. But I get down to only having class one or two days a week with a little begging at schedule time.
Zero minutes. My school is two feet from my bed, and my work is ten steps from my room.
half an hour to work or from work. it would be about 20 minutes but it becomes half an hour with morning and evening traffic in sacramento.
average 15min
30 min if traffic is bad. i don’t know what LittleLindyHopper was complaining about above. has she never out of kansas city. which has bad traffic but only at certain points in the day. most of the time it’s not ever close to other major cities.
my dad used to drive an hour each way to work. but that was before gas went through the roof.
20 to work and 25 min to home.
for me, it’s only about 15-20 minutes. my boyfriend drives an hour & a half each way. we’re moving soon so it will be only 15 minutes for him and an hour for me.
I drive approximately 140 miles total each day. It is about an hour or just over one way but it is all highway and more like a country drive than a commute.
I was spoiled with my previous job … it was a 5 minute ride to work. Now, I drive 25 minutes … but I am really starting to enjoy the ride … I listen to my CD’s and sing my heart out. It’s a great time to unwind … and it’s ME time … nobody there to bug me!! Have a great day, Dan!! You’re the Man!!
Twenty-five minute walk, five minute drive, 15 minute bus ride. We have friends who live outside of Washington DC, who commute about an hour and half each way.
1 to 2 hours, depending on the traffic.
i would drive 30 mins to work then another 30 mins from work to school. incidentially, my drive home from school was 30 mins.
Two miles. Without the stinkin’ construction, it’s five minutes (if I hit the red light). With construction, it can take 20…
10 minutes…. but the bus takes 45.
30-35 miles or about half an hour.
L,r
5 Minutes
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30 minutes.
WORK 20 MINUTES IN THE AM, 30 MINUTES IN THE EVENING
SCHOOL-HALF AND HOUR TO AND ABOUT THE SAME RETURN.
we live 20 mins to my husband’s job and 50 mins from my school- closer to work further from school. we used to rent a place 10 mins from the university but it was an hour from work. i got tired of never seeing him because of all his commute time. School is only 3-4 days a week, and not all year, so it’s better for us to be near work.
In Texas, I had a big, beautiful, house 75 miles from work. About 3-hours daily commute. When I relocated to St. Louis, I moved 5 miles from work. Now, I did give up my big, beautiful, house. But I’m also a lot less stressed, and a lot happier for it, and so is my family.
about 15 mins
me: 10 to and from. 20 total.
wife: 1 hour each way. 2 hours total
round trip is just under a hour.
It used to be an hour and a half each way when I worked at the bank, but now I live across the street {:O)
I have a 15 minute walk to school in the fall. I wish we invested more into public transportation, bikes, and walking…
15 mins
15-minutes each way. I’ve noticed a lot of companies moving to office parks in the suburbs to alleviate long commutes. This is especially good in places like Dallas where there is not a good public transit system like there is in NYC.
An hour. But I don’t mind, it’s a time to catch up with all the passengers. And no one can be too busy or in a hurry, because generally we’re barely moving.
5-7min depending on traffic.
Twenty minutes each way. What’s really nice is that my job is at my school, so I don’t have any extra commute time in between. The 20 minutes actually seems like a lot at times, compared to the town I grew up in, where everything was 5 minutes away!
altogether 3 hours commuting everyday
I live near Kankakee and work in Chicago.
Hi Dan!
Ummmm…well since I live on campus it’s not very long to school or work.
When I’m home it takes me 5 minutes maybe.
~Caroline~
2-3 hours to school, then the same back home.
If my mom takes me, it’s about 10-15 mins. If I ride the bus, it’s about 20.
25 minute walk. I love it! I used to commute 3 hrs each way to work and back home. Those days are OVER!!
About six miles one way, it takes me about 10 minutes or so, it’s great!
30 minutes round trip.
One and one half hours each way each day. It sucks. Big Time. But I get my reading in and I study my Duke Orsino (Shakespeare’s 12th Night) lines.
The drive is almost ten minutes, but I usually walk, which takes about twenty minutes.
20 minutes each way, tops.
Right now, I live within a few blocks to both my jobs, and walk, even though I have the use of a car for better job I am trying to get, full time, which will be about ten minutes from a new residence, soon.
20-30 minutes
It takes me 45 minutes to get to school one way every morning. We have to leave at 7 am to get there on time.
20 minutes… and that’s GREAT in Dallas, Tx
About 20 minutes to work, 15 to school.
I can get to school in about 10 minutes, and get to work in about 15.
If I’m late, it takes me less, because I can use dirt roads like the speed demon I am.
> 25 minutes or 20 miles each way. I live on the south side and the job is on the northeast side. Its not too bad, but you won’t hear me complain if gas goes down…
Peace
10 to 15 minutes…anything much longer than that is crazy!
there was this one man who commuted like 4 hours EACH way to work O_O because his family loved the house that they had out on some farm… so he makes that sacrifice for his fam. stupid sacrifice if you ask me. that’s 8 hours of the day that you could be spending time with your FAMILY that you love so much instead of being away from them while they enjoy the house they love (apparently more than their husband/dad). LAME!
my office is a 7 minute walk from my apartment
chinese school (which I will be attending next month! woot woot!) is about 30 minutes by bus
Drive: 5 minutes.
Then take the metro: 25+ minutes, depending on how long I wait for the stupid train.
Well, I live on campus right now, and it’s only a 15 minute walk.
But, my high school was 25 miles from where I lived, but because of Dallas rush hour traffic, it took me an hour to get to and from school.
1 hour!!! It’s Houston traffic that kills me.
I’m going to be working from home so none… But my son-in-laws boss drives 2 and a half hours each way to work because he doesn’t want to live in Manhatten
4-6 minute drive, depending on the two lights between my house and the school.
about a mile to walk.
11 minutes when we’re on time.
10 minutes each way to work
As for school… 0 minutes. Yay for home-schooling!!!
I want to work from home, but current commute? O.
I have known people that commute for a couple of hours-they might only make what is due to the daycare center/person, but at least it gets them out of the house! Now, with gas so expensive, it makes it dually difficult!
15-minute drive.
to school, it’s 20-25 minutes, and back home is about 20-30 minutes.
5-10min max
I had a 40 minute drive to school before it ended for the summer…
I spend an estimated 30-45 minutes driving to work. I do temp jobs, to take care of my sick grandmother, but the only things I can get offered are that far away.
It sucks because so many good paying jobs are out in the city, but people don’t like living in the city, or it’s just too expensive – depending on the area.
The more outer city suburban areas that are being built, are bought by people who have to drive in the city. So not only are you driving more, and spending more, but you are having to burn more emissions. Kinda sucks when you think about it.
about 2 minutes… it’s actually shameful that I drive
To go to school it takes me 40 minutes…
To go to work it takes me one hour and 30 minutes..since I live in Brooklyn, NY and work in Jersey City, NJ
5 min. to work, 30 to school.
10-15 minutes depending on traffic, it’s nice.
i don’t drive!!!
HAHAHAHA
About 15 minutes, taking traffic into account and stuff.
5 minute bike ride, 5 minute drive.
About five minutes, give or take a few.
It used to take ten minutes or so to get to school (I graduated on the 27th) and it takes about 20? minutes to get to work.
It takes me about 10 minutes to drive to school.
5 minutes to school
30 long minutes >_< I wish it were closer to home!!!
to school is a 45 min walk && 7ish min drive.
30 mins to school, and hour or my mom to get to work
5 minutes….10 if i get red lights…lol
5
for school, 2 min without traffic, 15 min with.
2 hours to the university, and 2 hours to go back home. That’s AVERAGE, it may take more or less time.
i know, that sucked.
school: 30 min drive
work: 5 min drive, 10 min bikride
45 min.’s to and from work each way.
When I was in college, it took about 15 minutes. For working at the bank, it takes about 20-25 minutes to get there. When I am working at the hospital, it takes about 15 minutes.
a 15 minute walk, and a 2 minute drive.