Travel Time To/From Work

[Dquincy]

What is your door to door travel time?

I work in London but commute in from the south east. At the moment, my travel time door to door is roughly 1 hr 10 mins / 20 mins. That includes a 10 min walk from the train station both ends of the journey.

I might be buying a house (that I possibly can't afford) which is one stop further from London. It's a nice house so think I can get over the slightly longer commute.

Anyway, what's yours?

[Spikey M]

A 6 minute bike ride.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Fuck London. I could probably double my wage by working there but I'd leave every morning before my daughter woke up and I'd get home about 10 minutes before she went to bed. Nah.

[Shindig]

Just under an hour's walk. I'd rather live in the city itself but the stuff that isn't earmarked for the students is expensive.

[Dquincy]

London is great to work in. Think I'd get bored working in the suburbs. It's also good for my occupation.

Take your point re seeing your kid. I've got a little one, but I see him in the morning and sometimes at night. I also want to provide for my wife and kid and give them as many opportunities as possible. Each to their own though.

Spikey M

[Dquincy]

Just under an hour's walk. I'd rather live in the city itself but the stuff that isn't earmarked for the students is expensive.
Keeps you fit. Why don't you get a bike and cycle it ?

[Shindig]

I'd rather walk uphill than pedal it. Plus I don't trust any of the drivers around here. Been involved in and seen too many accidents.

[Byron]

About a ten minute walk. Sometimes I'm needed in London and it's always a pain in the arse because it's about a two hour train and 45 minute walk one way.

If I was offered good money to work in London I'd consider it but I'd move to Kent and commute in, as door to door would be about an hour each way

[Magic]

0 seconds.

[Giggles]

2.9km to the office if I'm going there. Anything between 4 minutes and 45 minutes depending on the lights and the time I leave.

[Dquincy]

0 seconds.

Unemployed.

[Smiffy]

Forty minutes there, forty minutes back. Cover nearly six miles walking but I choose to do this as it's a good start to the morning and saves about a £5-6 on a return ticket.

[Spammer]

Forty minutes there, forty minutes back. Cover nearly six miles walking but I choose to do this as it's a good start to the morning and saves about a £5-6 on a return ticket.

This exactly, actually. Apart from the bus here would be more like £4.

[Smiffy]

I avoid public transport like the plague usually and bar my stint in London, I'll gladly never have to rely on it again. Every so often isn't all that bad but I have no idea how others can spend their mornings and evening home stuck amongst it all. I'd be locked up if I had to do that sort of commute daily.

[-james-]

0 seconds. Working in bed. :drool:

This, or around 15 hours when the office is a Kitchee FC home game.

[Manc]

Less than a five minute walk. City living perks.

[Kikó]

0 seconds. Working in bed. :drool:

How is life as a cam girl?

I walk in so 45 minutes to London wall from home.

[Baz]

I work in other people's houses, so however far away it is. Basically anything between 1 minute and 45 minutes, but usually about 20.

[Samadini]

I used to work in people's houses and my journey time would vary from 45 minutes to around 2 hours stood up the whole way on multiple packed trains with someones armpit in my face.

Now I have a 10 minute walk.

[Magic]

When I actually have jobs on it can vary between 1hr and 3hrs. Which is most days. :(

[Giggles]

When I actually have jobs on it can vary between 1hr and 3hrs. Which is most days. :(

Near enough the same. Closest customer is 3 minutes away and farthest is 4½ hours. That's about 4 of the 5 days of the week normally too.

[Pen]

Just under an hour now that we bought a flat and moved further away from my work. It'll cut down back to half an hour or less when I'll apply for something closer to home. I'm in a good position work wise and I know I'll get pretty much any position I apply for.

[Pen]

I work in other people's houses, so however far away it is. Basically anything between 1 minute and 45 minutes, but usually about 20.


Baz the burglar.

[Kikó]

Christmas is bringing everyone out of the wood work.

[Manc]

How much?

[Raoul Duke]

About an hour - bus/walk then tube. Not bad as I'm against the flow of traffic so always get a seat.

[Foe]

Because Aberdeen's road system is absolute filth it takes me anywhere between 20 and 60 minutes to do my 4 mile drive to work.

[mo]

20 minute drive. Perfect commute imho, especially after having experienced driving an hour each way for my training schools.

[Adamski]

20 miles each way for me so with a drop off of the little one en route it takes just over an hour.

[Ian]

About an hour for both trips.

What I'd like would be to move somewhere that I could do it in about an hour on foot so I'd have a short public transport hop in shit weather and a walk in good weather.

[hfswjyr]

10 minute walk. Rented this flat to be close to work.

[Disco]

15 minute drive (hordes of chinese students allowing) or about half an hour walk when the weather isn't shit.

[Mike]

My walk to work is between 10 and 15 minutes.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

35/40 minutes drive. Usually the best bit about the day.

[Dan]

Takes me 10-15 minutes to walk to work. When I lived at home it was roughly the same time, only going by bus, so it would cost me £5 per day return, with the buses stopping at 7:30 in the evening & there always being a good chance of whichever bus I wanted to catch being 15min late. I could have walked, and sometimes did, but that would take about 40mins & I already spend all day walking around at work so I never really fancied adding another hour or so on top of that if I could avoid it.

Fuck Stagecoach, basically.

[Clunge]

I reverse commute (drive) out of London. Tooting > Guildford.

I don't work 9.00ams though so I'm usually on the road (to and from) at 6.00am / 3.30pm or 12.30pm / 10.00pm. Can be done in 30 minutes traffic / lights depending or an hour. 40-45 mins usually.

S'not bad.

[Dquincy]

I work in other people's houses, so however far away it is. Basically anything between 1 minute and 45 minutes, but usually about 20.

Like a prositute? :)

[Dquincy]

Christmas is bringing everyone out of the wood work.

Or was it my thought provoking thread? Is 2017 poster of the year still up for grabs?

[Disco]

Do many people bring a prostitute back to their own house?

[Kikó]

Only Steve Wright.

[Dquincy]

Do many people bring a prostitute back to their own house?

That's a bloody good point. Maybe they should though, reduce overheads.

[Waffdon]

10 minute bus journey.

[Danny]

Its about a 20 minute drive on a morning and then 30+ on an afternoon. I leave early on a morning to beat the traffic yet hit it on the way home. Thats mostly because of where two interstates meet and people dont know how to merge.

[Queenslander]

10 minute drive in the morning. 20-30 minute drive in the afternoon because school traffic and construction blokes all finish the same time as me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

15 minute walk, 5 minute train and then a 30 minute walk. I actually quite enjoy it as it gives me the chance to listen either to a whole podcast or to a whole album, and I get 90 minutes of walking a day out of it which is good for me given my actual job involves sitting at a computer until my eyes go, erm, yeah.

[ItalAussie]

15-minute walk to the train station, 35 minutes on the train.

Truth be told, I enjoy having time on the train to read and disconnect from work/life.

[igor_balis]

Trains are good, busses are shit.

I walk 20 minutes to and from work, sometimes quicker if I've overslept.

[Spoonsky]

Seven minutes drive to Papa Johns, although I just quit. Very convenient.

[P_3]

5 minutes to the train, 60 on it and another 5 to work. Apart from the bit in the middle, my journey is perfect.

[Giggles]

I left after half 7 this morning and it only took 6 minutes. Must be loads on holidays already.

[Dquincy]

Sat next to the same lady 3 days on the trott. She's had croissant (1st day), pan au chocolat (2nd day), cheese and tomato muffin thing (today).

Smells delish. But not the most healthiest of breakfasts.

[mugbull]

It's better than coffee+percocet, my father's choice.

Actually, wait. How is any one of those three breakfast items unhealthy? I'm eating a chocolate croissant (and not lapsing into French) rn and feel healthy as fuck for doing so

[Adam]

Used to be 1 hour 40 minutes travelling into Manchester and is now a nice 15 minute walk, lovely.

[Adamski]

It's better than coffee+percocet, my father's choice.

Actually, wait. How is any one of those three breakfast items unhealthy? I'm eating a chocolate croissant (and not lapsing into French) rn and feel healthy as fuck for doing so

Isn't a croissant like 90% butter? And that one has chocolate on it.

[Spammer]

Bread in general isn't that good for you tbh

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I could be bothered, my breakfast would be two poached eggs and some fruit, or something like that. No bread, English people eat a stupid amount of bread and I'm really not sure why. The very idea of waking up an hour early to start poaching eggs when I have to be out the door at 7am is utterly ridiculous, though.

[phonics]

Bus stop is outside my door, 10 minutes on the bus and 10 minutes on the tram then it's a 2 minute walk to the office.

We're supposed to be in at 9 but in our team of 5, only one person seems to adhere to this and that's because she lives miles away so has to catch a train. I get in at 9:30 and normally she's the only one there. Everyone's out the office this week though so I roll in at like 10/10:30. Great stuff.

[Boydy]

Any wonder they were telling you to shape up.

[Disco]

What kind of communist layabout rolls in at 9:30? How do you get anything done?

[phonics]

What time are you freaks going in? I work 9:30 - 6:30

[Jimmy Floyd]

8 to 5 here. 7 to 4 would be better for efficiency really as the Asians are still in the game that early, and no one cares what yanks have to say at half five.

[phonics]

Yeah I'd rather start later, end later. I don't much care for evenings outside of summer.

[Pepe]

Thought I had posted here.

I'm a five minute bike ride away from the lab. Spending over an hour everyday commuting is like fucking torture. The one thing I miss the least about Mexico.

[Pepe]

As for work hours, according to my advisor we should be in the lab from 8 to 6. I usually roll in at about 9:30 and leave at 4, sometimes 5 if I am actually doing something.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I did a shift job once which involved doing 8 to 4 one week and 11 to 7 the next, and the latter was a highly civilised way to life it has to be said.

[Pepe]

I think I'd like 11-7. Plenty of time to do stuff in the morning.

[Manc]

10am start for me. It's glorious.

[Mazuuurk]

About 20-30 minutes with the Bus if I go straight (depends a LOT on traffic so can differ like 20 minutes).

But, I go to drop off my kid at preschool in the mornings, which takes at least 30 minutes in total, so all in all about an hour, and lots of changes of buses and shit.

[Ian]

If I didn't start early and finish late everyday like a moron my shift would be 8-4 everyday, which I've basically picked for myself. And is technically fifteen minutes less than everybody bar TLs.

[Dquincy]

If I could be bothered, my breakfast would be two poached eggs and some fruit, or something like that. No bread, English people eat a stupid amount of bread and I'm really not sure why. The very idea of waking up an hour early to start poaching eggs when I have to be out the door at 7am is utterly ridiculous, though.

Probably don't need to get up an hour early. If you hone your poaching skills, i reckon youcould do it in 15 mins (inc. eating)