How long does your journey home take and do you take your own transport or use the public?

Question

I am off now, it will take me fifty five minutes to get home - just in time for neighbours and a glass of wine - perfecto - I walk due to the fact that I am too stupid to drive and Too tight to pay for public transport . Bon Voyage everyone

Answer 1

I leave work at 4pm. A 20 minute walk to the Bus Stop. An hour (minimum of the bus). Then another 20 minute walk from the Bus Stop to Home. If I'm lucky I should be home by 6pm.

I have no choice (if I want to work) to travel by bus.

Answer 2

17-22 minutes driving my own car, not possible to take public transport as I am in the burbs and commute to a very small city. I used to take public transport into the big city and it was about 55 minutes door to door in a vanpool (caravan for commuters). When construction started on a major road "improvement", that went to 90 minutes each way. I changed jobs shortly after.

Note: why does it seem like government officials are wholly unconcerned with the time wasted in traffic? By not having adequate roads, workers are losing time they could be working (improving the economy) or being with family (getting more utility out of life). Instead, they are stressed & unproductive and the cars spew more pollutants into the air by being on the road far longer than necessary to get from A to B.

PS-the "improvement" is not much of an improvement, and traffic still takes close to 90 minutes to travel what used to take 55.

Answer 3

It's 27 miles each way to work from my home.
It takes me 27 minutes each way.
The speed limit is 70 MPH and there's one redlight and one stop sign each way.
If a car or truck is going slower than a vehicle coming up from behind, they move over onto the shoulder to let you pass. The Texas Farm to Market roads are very wide two-laned highways with 60-80 mph speed limits.

I think I would go berserk if I had to commute like ya'all every day for a living. Traffic, trains, and people traveling like a herd of cattle does not thrill me AT ALL.

I did work in Downtown D.C. for a week and had to take the Metro. It was an enlightening experience. Everybody was in a hurry, in a bad mood or not very friendly. Nobody made eye contact or small talk. I felt out of place to say the least.

Sitting in traffic would drive me c R a Z y! I'd have to ride a dual sport motorcycle and go through and around traffic if I lived in a crowded commute.

Green acres is the place to be.
Farm livin is the life for me
Keep the city just give me that country side!

Answer 4

I find getting the train into central London is fine because most mainline stations are accesible and it's all you need to is ask for someone to help you get the pram onto the train, which isn't a big ask. The tube is a nightmare though. How about getting the train into central London and then getting a cab to the hospital? That way you'd have his pram but not too much messing around with it. Otherwise I'd say a babybjorn on your front and a rucksack on your back. If you need to feed him then most eateries will have highchairs. Or just feed him on your lap. My son always fell asleep really easily on the train due to the rocking motion so he'd probably sleep on the train in a sling/carrier if he needed a nap.

Answer 5

My typical journey home takes up to 1 and a half hours and involves....

a short walk
an Underground Train
a short walk
an Overground Train
a short walk
a 6 mile drive.

If I were to replace the drive with public transport it would take about 2 hours off my working day as the last bus is at about 1730hrs. And there's no way I'm cycling unless the weather is guaranteed to be fine.

Answer 6

By car, 15-25 minutes. By Public transport, over an hour, & it costs more on the 2 buses I'd need than it costs in petrol. So I choose to avoid the riff-raff & sit in air conditioned comfort, listening to my own tunes, safe in the knowledge that I don't have to put up with druggies, squawking brats, & all the other miserable looking people you seem to see on buses.

Answer 7

Takes me 20 mins by car there and back...it would take from 40-60 mins to get there by public transport, but there are only a few buses there and back. I used to travel almost 2 hours to work (there and back) and think that we have so little time to ourselves to live, that time spent travelling is such as waste of time - what price do you put on that????

Answer 8

This sounds bad but I don't like catching buses. I had a nasty experience on a bus so I drive every where now I have a car.

It takes me 5 minutes by car to get home, depending on traffic and I drive my car to and from work. I hate buses. I hate having to wait ages for them in the cold and when you get on, thers always someone on the bus who makes you feel intemidated. Always.

Answer 9

Wow!

*35-40 minutes to go to work in the morning.

**I leave at 6:30 A.M., and there's very little traffic.

**Once I get to work, I collect my stuff, hit the weights for 30+ minutes, and get to class (I teach public school).

*One to 1.5 hours to go home.

**I leave by around 4:00 P.M.

**The roads are already getting packed, and the commuters are tired, distracted, and rude.

*I used to commute by public transportation here in Sacto., CA

**2.5 hours each way.

**I was still in law school and working full time.

**Lots of time to study, but WAY too much time away from my family...

*I now commute by motorcycle on most days (unless it's raining or icy).

**My motorcycle averages at least 50 mpg. (Yamaha FZ6), compared to my "daddy-mobile" (Isuzu Rodeo: 17 mpg.).

**It's a total blast, AND I'm doing my part to relieve traffic congestion, and fighting America's dependency upon petroleum.

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Answer 10

I finish work at 5.30pm, i have to walk 2 mins to the car park, then it takes me about 5-6 mins to drive home and park. I used to walk until i turned 17 and could drive but that takes about 20-25minutes and in weather like we have today its not nice.