Like the title says, share something about your daily commute :)
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
What kind of advice or insights would you like to share with the rest?
Etc.
I walk next door. I like that its close by and I can spend my lunchtime laying on my couch. I hate its close by so I’m practically always working. I would also want to listen podcasts during commute but all of them are too long for my commute. Overall I recommend living close to work. (it’s my own business, I’m not employee)
you’re ‘practically always working’ because it’s your own business, too, not just because you live next door.
I really like the 20 min walk to the train station, it partly goes through a park and it always feels very invigorating. It takes about an hour total to get to work or home but I don’t mind at all since it gives me a clean break between work- and private life.
One thing I really hate is when the train is cancelled and I’m stuck with only a tightly packed bus as my alternative for getting home.I would be happy with a train commute. I could get in some reading. I don’t know why so many people have to get to where they’re going so fast. Alas, no trains here. Not even a bus that comes within 2 miles of me.
How often does the train is cancelled in say a month?
Well, you got two kinds of cancellations. Sometimes it’s just a single train because of… reasons… I don’t know. Those aren’t so bad, you just wait for the next one to leave in half an hour. It happens maybe once a month?
The worse ones are when there’s a defect in the rail system, knocking out the entire rail line going home. In those cases you have to travel extra to get to a bus that everyone is desperate to get on. Which causes a lot of shoving and squeezing and very uncomfortable traveling. The alternative is either to get a (ridiculously expensive) taxi or to wait it out for several hours, which is not an option for me. These kind of events only happen a few times as year thankfully, but they’re really awful when they happen.
The thing is, I have to pick up my kids from daycare so I need to get back on time. A major cancellation puts me in an enormous stress mode.
Absolutely no traffic + taking toll roads: about 30 minutes.
Normal traffic + avoiding a toll road 50 minutes
Traffic: 1 hr to 1.5 or if it’s really bad you just won’t get home… seriously.
I like the time I have to listen to music or kinda rant to myself, I see a lot of interesting stuff.
I hate my commute, give me work from home I am a fucking IT dude who does everything remotely anyways.
I drive 20-25k miles a year in an ev that can “only” go 80 miles. My daily round trip is 66 miles. (I level 1 charge at work if you’re curious)
It’s wild how many of my coworkers will tell me “just buy a closer house lol” yeah sorry I can barely afford to rent where I live 3 counties away.
Leaving before 6:55-7 will save you as much as 20 minutes. Leaving after 7 people are generally going 5-10mph under the highway limit as I suspect many just woke up lol.
One of the few things I don’t hate about my job is it’s a 10-minute commute down an empty highway.
I’m only in the office once a week. Outside of the winter months, I ride my bike about 4.1 miles (6.6 km). It takes about 25 mins and I cut through a park and church parking lot. I do have to cross one of the busiest roads in my area, with the help of a light. That part is not pleasant. I recently got a phone mount, so now I can listen to the news on my commute as well. The worst part is getting to the office sweaty and having to change into nice office clothes in a bathroom stall. I am the only person who rides to work at my office.
Good on you for taking the bike! :)
Why do you need a phone mount to listen to the news though? Can’t you just keep it in your pocket while cycling?
Walk from bedroom to office room and turn on my computer. Mostly like full remote, but sometimes miss an office environment honestly.
I ride a bike to a next village about 10 min.
Today it was painful, I recently moved here (because of job) and didn’t take all my bike clothes from my parents house jet. So this morning was about 5C and I was in t-shirt and shorts.
Fucking hellish. The bus service sucks so much riding bike would be faster. We need bus lanes everywhere yesterday
At risk of asking the obvious question… Why don’t you ride a bike? Are you lacking safe cycling paths?
I work from home now but when I did commute, it was 1.5hrs of bus from a suburb to another city across the river. In total I’d have a 3 hour commute a day and returning home, the bus would be so full I’d be pressed up against the window unable to move.
Very happy to not commute anymore, but even if I did have to again, I live downtown now so I’d be able to do a quick walk or bike.
It’s about 90% bike lanes, of which the majority are protected bike lanes separated from traffic.
There’s one block that’s hairy, that street racers like to use when I’m coming home at night.
It is okay I guess. A regular subway ride.
No lights and no traffic, 8 minutes.
Daily average if I show up on time: 25 minutes
Daily average if I show up like 20 mins early: 12 minutes.
The worst part is that I can do 99.9% of my job from home. And if I were needed in a pinch, I could be in in about 15 minutes. But no, HR doesn’t think it’s fair because other people’s jobs require them to be on site.
Well fuck them, we have different jobs. We don’t need to have the same work life. 😡
I’m sorry to hear that, it really does sound awful having to spend time in traffic just to keep up the appearance of “fairness”. I doubt your coworkers would really mind if you asked them personally. And you only add to the traffic and pollution problem with these kinds of practices.
Maybe you could suggest an option of working the first- and last few hours from home and spend 4-6 hours in the office? At least you’d be able to avoid rush hour?
I have to walk down to my basement office. It’s rough, sometimes there’s traffic as a cat might be walking down too. They like to stop and slow things down.
A 30 minute walk through a beautiful but extremely rainy European city. When I lived in SF, it involved bike, Onewheel, and / or ferry, and no matter how I went it took about 50 minutes. I love walking in the rain though, so my current commute is my favorite.
Mine is awesome!
I never encounter any traffic when I walk from the kitchen to the office. And so quick! Only two little shakes of a lamb’s tal!
