I’m assuming that most of you are from the US so probably using cars, but lemme know if you use trains, subways, buses, etc.
Me? Back when I was doing an internship I walked to a nearby station for 10 minutes then transited to another train line, which could be an instant or 20 minutes wait. After that I walked for 10 minutes to my work place. So it was probably about 40 minutes of commute. Of course, I live in tropical country so I’m drenched in sweat as I arrive in the office.
Fortunately every year my city’s public transportation seems to get better and as a result I barely needed to use cars.
It looks like the carpet between the kitchen and my library. My commute is all of 100 feet or so down a portrait-lined hallway to the computer. And that’s it. And I work for myself, (a part time writer) so i don’t really have to struggle with the daily grind of cars, buses, trains, etc.
But - we do have a pretty nifty Trax system here in Utah for commuters going cross town or from downtown to the University. I’d probably use that if I was still working.
When I’m not broken, an 8 mile cycle ride that takes around 30 minutes. I’m currently recovering from a broken kneecap and getting the bus in, which is about 20 minutes and 5 minutes walk each end.
I leave between 6:10 and 6:15am, get on my e-bike and arrive at work 25 min later.
5 minute walk. Of course i usually have to pick up my dogs poop on the way, but hey…evry commute isn’t perfect.
4 years back it was a walk to the station and a half hour train ride.
Now I walk downstairs after waking up at 9:30.
Depends on which office I work at.
Cycle to the closest train station and catch the sprinter to the Utrecht Centraal.
If I work in my normal office I catch a bus to the Utrecht office.
If I work in Amsterdam I stay on the same train and get off at the station and walk for about 5 min to the office.
If I work in Rotterdam I switch trains at Utrecht Centraal to a line going to Rotterdam centrum, then take the metro to the office.
All trips take about an hour.
I live in a medium sized city (~95k) in Europe. It takes me around 15 minutes by bike to get to work.
There is zero public transportation where I live so it’s been strictly car for the last 1.5 years but I just got a job less than 5 miles away so I’m going to try riding my bicycle this spring.
During the winter:
- Walk 2 min to the bus
- Wait 8 min in the bus
- walk 7 min to work
Rest of the year: Cycle 25 min
Why are you waiting 8 minutes on the bus when it takes you just 2 minutes to get to the bus stop? Leave 5 minutes later and just wait 1 minute instead?
When I say wait 8 minutes in bus its because I’m inside the bus, waiting for it to arrive near work
If their public teansport situation is anything like mine, busses have a few min leeway eather way on most stops
Mh, that’s not how I know it. Like, being late is common. But if a bus, tram or train is early it usually will wait at the early stop till the scheduled departure time.
But I’m quite spoiled. During peak hours there is a tram every 3.5 minutes where I live. So unless there is a complete blockage, the concept of “missing” the tram doesn’t really exist.
Its a 38 minute drive without tolls and a 33 minute drive with tolls. Ill suffer the 5 minutes to avoid $30 in tolls every month.
I actually live in a more expensive area than where I work, but I do so because the entire state is still somewhat affordable (Kansas) and the city I live in is much more progressive than the one I work in.
Pre-pandemic I drove 15 minutes to the BART station, hopefully got parking. Walked 5 minutes to the train platform. Waited for train. 50ish minute train ride to downtown San Francisco. 10 minute walk to office. Pretty typical Bay Area commute.
Now, I take my dogs for a walk, get back home, make coffee, relax. Go upstairs and login to work. WFH is the new normal and it’s great.
50 min feels pretty long. How crowded is BART usually?
Where I got on, not too bad, I usually got a seat, but it quickly got crowded. Nowadays I hear it’s better; ridership hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels yet.
10-15 minute bike ride. On the way I in traffic can almost be entirely evaded by swapping the section without bike lane for a bit of trail. The return is a bit more janky because the infrastructure designer probably died from aneurysm as they were designing the road layout.
Live in the northern US and bike 3 miles to work. Icy right now so I have studded tires and bar kits. I wear a ski facemask and skip the glasses cause they fog. Bike light since it’s easy to work past sunset this time of year. Even when it was -30F I only wore one hoody (biking is hard work). Takes me around 15 minutes which is the same as driving. There’s bike paths 90% of my commute but I still almost get ran over at every other cross walk. Besides the danger, one of the best things I’ve ever done for my mental health. And I’m not even the road rage type. I just enjoy the ride
TL:DR - Ride my bike along a precarious but not terrible inner city suburb of Melbourne Australia. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go 4km. I have the option of a 25 minute riverside bike ride if I’m willing to give up my sleep in.
I live in an “inner suburb” of Melbourne Australia, and I work at a community centre just a few tiny city suburbs away, 4km.
I have an e-bike that I use as my primary vehicle, because of the way my migraine disorder manifests and overlaps with another condition, I can’t drive a car. So I’ve learned how to get by completely carless - living in the inner city suburbs helps so I’m privileged in that regard. But the ebike has been a game changer.
Before covid I had a job about 6km away and I was wasting so much money on buses and uber, it was two buses and an awkward connecting power-walk that meant frequent missed connections and also pushed me just over onto the more expensive ticket because of how our public transport fee system works. So I would lazily uber to work several times a week. And since I was working part time, it wasn’t even worth it some days when I had a 2 hour shift. ~40% of my pay cheque would go to ubering to work.
Then covid hit and our state went into lock down. The community centre ran a food bank so my 2 or 3 hour part time shifts became 12 hour days as demand increased but staffing couldn’t. I’d always miss the last bus, and uber drivers were few and far between. I tried riding my bike but the 12km return trip was just a bit too far on top of the 12 hour day, so I bought an ebike.
I got a new job, closer, and a very nice ride. I have multiple route options, one of which is a gorgeous separated shared pedestrian-cycle path that follows the local river which I often ride home - I finish at the optimum dog walking time so I get to meet so many puppies on my leisurely ride home. But it’s very slow (because of all the dogs which aren’t supposed to be off leash, but are) so, my preferred route to work is the fast way. It cuts right through the the town centre, it’s an old industrial dock town so it’s pretty highly developed but never highly invested in, meaning the roads are horrible and full of trucks. But the council are working on it, and in the last few years they’ve installed some halfway decent bike infrastructure. The danger is worth the 15 minutes it saves me in the morning.
Two jobs, both 100% remote (one of them for 22 years).
Try not to trip over the cat.
