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.
It’s a little over an hour long, though we plan on changing offices to a location that’s 20 minutes closer to where I live, thankfully Plus, I do get to work from home twice a week
Besides a few awkward zipper merges and one stretch of road with lanes that are far too narrow, it isn’t the worst. The evening commute is mired by more traffic, but that’s to be expected.
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.
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.
not much to share because it doesn't last long enough. three minutes, give-or-take, depending on how many assholes blast through the crosswalk on the highway i need to cross to get from 'a' to 'b'
I’m lucky right now because it takes the same amount of time by car as it does by transit. On a good day it might take 20 minutes, on a bad day it could be 30-40. The bad days only happen when there’s terrible weather and the roads are at a standstill
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.
Great question! I’m a woman. Generally my riding pants don’t have pockets and when I wear jeans I can’t trust the shallow pockets to keep my phone secure. I don’t normally wear a jacket when riding.
Also, not that you mentioned this but I wanted to bring it up, I don’t like wearing headphones in traffic for safety. I have worn wireless earbuds, but they fell out too many times and I’d have to go back and search for them.
Fair enough. Shame on me for making assumptions based on a username :) I should have included bag as well as pockets.
Anyway, I can understand why you want to use a phone holder if you’re not that keen on earbuds. I don’t like cycling with a full set either, so I either use just one (thankfully mine are quite snug and haven’t fallen out… yet) or I use bone conducting headphones that wrap around my head. They’re not much for listening to music, but great for podcasts and you can still hear what’s going on around you.
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.
Cycling 4.5km averaging 12 mins at 5:00 and around 14 mins at 13:00
Best things about it are I like cycling, it is free exercise and about twice as quick as driving if not more in the afternoon.
Worst things about it are wind and cunts that can’t drive their lumps of metal safely or predictably (particularly taxi drivers, fuck you cunts with razor blades)
Everyone should cycle if they could, it is much better for your physical and mental health and is a good wind down at the end of the day. Just kit yourself out properly for the weather.
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.
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?
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