Talking today to my prospective leader (who happens to be my neighbor), we talked about commutes.

I told her one of the benefits of my job change was the commute.

She told me when traffic was really bad, it would take about 15 minutes.

When I told her I was driving more than an hour each way she was..

What is your commute to work each day? Morning the same as evening?

Does this make you rethink you job choice?

I left the office early on Friday at 1:30pm..the traffic was as bad as if it was 5pm...yikes..sigh..

I will not miss that...

An hour and a half by public transit (bus, ferry, subway) to midtown Manhattan. Uptown? Even more. Far west or east side? Also more. But I knew that going in, so built it into my mind-set. And I don't have to go in every day.

But no way we could have this luxuriant amount of space closer in. Or a 9 foot grand. We intercom each other from our various rooms.

RealPlayer, I should have added method of transport.

For me it is driving..

Do you think that public transport allows you time to "work" while commuting?

I do sometimes arrange my drive with conference calls that do not require note taking..If I just need to attend, I can do that in my car.

HI, Beelady. If I were to drive, it could be a half-hour to 45 minutes. But driving in NY city is such a hassle and then there's the parking issue. I must say, convenient public transit has spoiled me.

Yes, public transit is the only way I get to finish reading the Fri-Sat-Sun NY Times. Or if I have music to go over, I do that on the ferry.

About 10 minutes if I drive, just under an hour if I take the bus (includes a stop to pick up coffee ).

About 10 minutes as well. I'm about 4.5 miles from work and there isn't much traffic.

heh.

Does going to the Keurig count as a commute?

Twenty minutes door-to-door on days when I teach or have meetings. Fifteen steps to the recliner in my home office on writing days.

We're on a slight ridge south of town and this place is flat flat flat, so I can see the university from our dining room window. I could see my building, if the temple to the football god football stadium weren't in the way.

If I stand in the right spot in my front yard, I can see downtown Oklahoma City. In fact, the fireworks from Norman, Moore, and OKC are visible from our yard on the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve. But I digress.

The Canadian River forms the southern boundary of Norman and it's quite the psychological barrier for long-time residents. I told a colleague where our house was and she said plaintively, "You bought something across the river?" It was as if I were planning to come to work every day on a Conestoga. Here, we can have an acre for the dogs and space for my garden, and I can still be at work quicker than some people who live in town. I love it.

Mary Anna;s

quote:

temple to the football god

is quite apt.

I must walk the dogs before I can get to my beloved covfefe machine. Then I must feed them. Hear my whine.
It is around 10 miles to an hour to thousands of acres of skiing. Can ride my bike out of the garage and onto the bike path.

I have a 23 minute drive to my school. I’ve had jobs with a 90 minute commute and I’m so happy it’s now shorter.

45 minute drive. traffic not an issue.

Increasingly, it is 10 steps -- from back door to pool.

jf

I drive. It’s usually about 15 minutes to get to work in the morning and 20 to get home in the afternoon. I can get into the HOV lane on my motorcycle and shave a few minutes off. I haven’t been riding for the last year or so because, reasons.

I once tried public transit - combination of bus and train. Despite living three blocks from the bus stop and working a five minute walk from the train station, it took an hour and 20 minutes and cost more than twice what driving cost even when I had the gas-guzzling Mercedes. The problem there is that I live in one suburb and work in another. The public transit is mostly set up to get people from the suburbs to downtown, so you have to go downtown, then back out to the other suburb.

There is one bus line that winds its way through all the suburbs, but that, too, takes over an hour and I’d have to get one bus from my house to get to the transit center, take the milk-run bus to another transit center, then another bus to the office. If I miss one connection, it can add a half hour or more to the trip.


My second best ever commute was when I was working in London. I’d walk out of the apartment to the end of the block to a tube station. Then it was one train - no changes - and get out at a station two blocks from the office. It was about 40 minutes, but so easy.

My best ever commute was when I was working in Moscow. My apartment was two blocks up and across the street from the office. And because elevators there are pretty sketchy, I walked up and down the stairs to both my third floor apartment and my third floor office. I lost 15 pounds in two months.

In 5.5 years at DOJ, I have never driven to work.

Commute is 45 minutes door-to-door, via Ride-on bus and Metro.

I commute three days a week (work from home Mondays and Fridays), and I travel about once a week. The total number of days I have commute in is pretty small, thank goodness.

Wow, I can't believe it's been 5.5 years. I remember when you were first thinking about taking the job. It doesn't seem like 5.5 years ago.