How long is your journey to work?

[CharlieAddict]

exactly 35 mins!

 

[Numbers]

Door to door it's 45 mins. Stupid travel time was one of the reasons I moved to where I am now cos like others on this thread it was taking me 1.5 hours, which is utterly ridiculous.

 

[mauvais]

About 35 mins (9 miles) by bike.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Three feet, bed to desk.

And why are you lucky bastards, with offices and colleagues and watercoolers where you discuss TV and politics and sport, wasting time with virtual acquaintances on the Internet? I'm here because I never talk to anyone over the age of five otherwise.

 

[Poot]

If I don't have to take Tiddler to Nursery, 5 minutes, it's just around the corner.

If I do (and I nearly always do) it's half an hour to nursery and half an hour from nursery to work. Then the same on the way back.

 

[janeb]

Have got 3 main workplaces and work from there at least one day a week, plus a couple of trips to London every month.

Home to Durham - average 45 mins in the car
Home to Leeds - 2 1/2 hours (bus, train, walk)
Home to Manchester - 3 1/4 hours (bus, Train, bus)
Home to London - 4 hours or so (bus, train, DLR)

All journey times one way - I do get very tired, for every day that I don't work in Durham I'm usually away from home for 12 - 13 hours, nearer 14 if I'm in London.

I do try to work one day a week from home if I can to catch up on sleep a bit, and do a shorter day then, but often doesn't work out as planned

 

[Passdout]

No set time for me, but mostly its more than ten minutes and less than an hour.

 

[e∞a]

10 mins walk +
35 mins rail +
another 15 mins walk
= 1 hour

 

[scifisam]

Job 1: 20 minute walk door to door.

Job 2: Would be a 15 minute walk, but I don't go from home, I go from my daughter's school, and have so get a bus - 15 minutes.

(Basically, I leave job 1, rush to school, collect child, rush to job 2).

Job 3: It took just over half an hour on tube and bus the other day. I think cycling wll be about the same, but more reliable and enjoyable.

 

[scifisam]

Have got 3 main workplaces and work from there at least one day a week, plus a couple of trips to London every month.

Home to Durham - average 45 mins in the car
Home to Leeds - 2 1/2 hours (bus, train, walk)
Home to Manchester - 3 1/4 hours (bus, Train, bus)
Home to London - 4 hours or so (bus, train, DLR)

All journey times one way - I do get very tired, for every day that I don't work in Durham I'm usually away from home for 12 - 13 hours, nearer 14 if I'm in London.

I do try to work one day a week from home if I can to catch up on sleep a bit, and do a shorter day then, but often doesn't work out as planned

That sounds hellish! You must be knackered.

 

[tufty79]

25 minutes at the moment, for a bus, a tube and a shortish walk .

 

[lontok2005]

One of the women where I work in Old Street commutes from Coventry three days a week. She works from home the other two.

 

[janeb]

That sounds hellish! You must be knackered.

It creeps up on me, some weeks it's fine, other weeks I want to stop by the time it gets to Wed. This week I went to Manchester on Thursday, then stayed overnight in Leeds last night, then worked there today and got home for about 7.30 or so, so that saves some travelling but it means a night away which soon gets very boring as well.

Still, I do love my job and I would get really bored being in the same place all the time

Next weeks a North West special - Carlisle, then Liverpool, then St Helens, then Lancaster, then Durham - am staying away 3 nights but one of those is at my dads near Blackpool so that'll be good

 

[Thora]

No commute at the moment as I work from home. I wouldn't do more than an hour though - I had a hour and a half commute once but I only lasted about a month.

 

[gentlegreen]

25 - 35 minute bike ride

1 hour if I walk
30 minutes if I drive.

It would be interesting to do a poll to find all the young fit urbanites choosing to drive less than 4 miles ...

 

[moonsi til]

^^^ I work less than 4 miles and drive. My work has started a cycle to work scheme which I am going to look into though there are no amenities such as a shower or decent place to change / freshen up. I also work shifts and with finish late and in early the next morning kinda thing. I walked and caught the bus for over 4 years in this job but driving makes my life easier...

 

[marty21]

i live in hackney and work in hackney sometimes i don't leave hackney all week, 20 min walk, or about the same on the bus or buses if i am really lazy or it's raining....

trouble ahead, i think the want to move us to a different office, which may be outside hackney and i will have to commute or get another job close to home again

 

[HeroineSheep]

10 minutes by bike. Sometimes I go up to the rockpool and back for a 30 minute circuit cos I'm trying to pretend I'm getting fit. It's one of the reasons I like living here.

 

[Roadkill]

Early last year, when I was very skint and pissed off, I did think up a scheme whereby I'd carry on doing my job but move back to Hull and commute to London a couple of days a week. That would have been something like a three and a half hour journey by the time I'd got from King's Cross to Greenwich.

I never suggested it to work, and I'm sure they wouldn't have been happy about it, but at the time I was contemplating leaving anyway.

 

[Geri]

45 mins if I walk, 15-20 if I cycle.

 

[ChrisFilter]

25 mins cycle, 25 mins train... both equal. SE21 to Farringdon.

 

[feyr]

10 minute walk

 

[spanglechick]

10 mins drive.

would be minimum 45 mins by buses - rising to an hour and fifteen if the 37 did its frequent dissapearing act.

On the one hand, I moved job so that I would be able to use public transport - on the other hand, when faced with the prospect of getting up over an hour earlier and spending more money, i'm afraid to say i have failed.

At ssome point, I'd like to cycle - but at the moment the journey time for that would depend on the wait in A&E for heart failure patients.

 

[mitochondria]

12 minute walk, 5 minute bike ride. All uphill though.

 

[mysterygirl]

Anything from 45 minutes to 2 1/2 hourd, depending on traffic. An hour & 1/4 probably the norm. Public transport would be upwards of 2 hours and more expensive. I don't like the commute but I like the money (nothing wonderful but considerably better than local) & I don't want to move into London, so those 2 1/2 - 4 hours a day travelling are my sacrifice.

By the time I've done animal care before & after work Im out of the house 14-15 hours a day, 5 days a week. Its a long day and I do enjoy my weekends & holidays!

Lucky people taking less time than that - I dream of a 10/20 minute journey to work!

 

[Nemo]

About an hour what with the walk to the tube, waiting for the train, and the walk from Moorgate at the other end.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

10 min walk

 

[lemontop]

I rely on two overground trains, so if everything is working properly it takes an hour. More often than not my first train is delayed, I miss the second one and it takes an hour and a half. I dream about having a job where I can walk to work.

 

[mikeinworthing]

Under ten minutes by car - along the coast road.

Has been 1 1/2 - 2 hours by bike, train, tube & bus in the past.

 

[northernhord]

A 20 minute walk.