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Commute

How long is everyones commute here every day to work?

and how to you do it.

Mine is 117km (76miles) one way

I do it by car
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Old 09.07.2010, 18:54
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Re: Commute

If only there was some kind of poll functionality on these forums.

My commute is by tram, 20 minutes door to door. Takes me 45 minutes to walk, so reckon it must be 4km or so.

I used to be on the road at least 3 hours per day. 100km each way on the M25 around London...
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Old 09.07.2010, 18:59
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Re: Commute

45 km each way

I do it by car. Can take anything from 40 minutes to over an hour each way dependent on traffic.
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Old 09.07.2010, 19:00
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Re: Commute

15 minutes cycle (25 door to door on the tram). Prior to working here in Basel I was in London and the commute time and options (replace tram with tube) were virtually identical. However, both options here are more relaxed.
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Old 09.07.2010, 19:07
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Re: Commute

I drive about 13km to work of which nearly 10km is always free of snow, hail, rain, fog and even blinding sun.

(thanks to 2 very long tunnels..!)
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Old 09.07.2010, 19:11
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Re: Commute

Ten paces, five seconds.
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Old 09.07.2010, 19:48
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5km one way. 10 minutes the way the boyfriend drives, 15 minutes the way i drive

But thanks for this topic. We want to move and im scared of a 25 minute drive
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Old 09.07.2010, 19:51
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5km one way. 10 minutes the way the boyfriend drives, 15 minutes the way i drive

But thanks for this topic. We want to move and im scared of a 25 minute drive
Have patience, my dear, when you get to my age, you, too, will have a shorter 'commute'.
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Re: Commute

Mine alternates between 4m by shank's pony, and 1400km in great iron bird.
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Old 09.07.2010, 20:02
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Re: Commute

1 hour 15 mins in the morning, and if I'm lucky only 1 hour on the way back. Comes down to the way the public transport fits together.
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Re: Commute

2.2km
In the Winter and when it's pouring down with rain:
15 min door to door with public transport (walking then tram).
In all other seasons:
5 min to work on the bicycle
30 min back home on the bicycle.
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5 min to work on the bicycle
30 min back home on the bicycle.
I take it that you live at the top of a big hill then
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I take it that you live at the top of a big hill then
yes a very big hill ... and with this weather I find myself "cheating" and taking my bike on the TRAM back up the hill....
I knew I should have bought an ELECTRIC bicycle.
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Re: Commute

Depends, if i go direct it's 1 minute from bathroom to office, if i go via the coffee machine, maybe 1mins & 30 seconds
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Re: Commute

Was 17 minutes door-to-door by public transport plus walk time.

Currently 45 minutes door to door by public transport and walk. An hour if I have to detour to drop the toddler to childcare...via the bakery where he picks up his raisin bread...

New job, 20 minutes walk uphill in the morning, downhill in the afternoon...or 5 minutes walk plus 2 minutes bus if I manage to get the perfect connection...I think it would take longer if I had a car and had to park it!

And if my husband didn't have to commute...I would have happily moved in next door to my new workplace...but it wasn't fair on the two older kids because it would have added another 15 minutes commuting time to their day...each direction...maybe in the future perhaps...
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How long is everyones commute here every day to work?

and how to you do it.

Mine is 117km (76miles) one way

I do it by car
why?

why do you choose to live so far from work?

and why go by car?
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Old 09.07.2010, 23:33
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Re: Commute

My other commute is the time taken to walk from my bedroom, down the stairs to my office in the cellar.
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why?

why do you choose to live so far from work?

and why go by car?

cause by train it would take me 2+ hours one way. I hate being in trains....
Cause it is an ok job and the gf is 5 min from her work....
IM gonna argue soon to be 3 days at the office 2 days home. Otherwise Im quitting
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Re: Commute

11km.
8-9 months per year by bike, around 30 minutes.
Rest of the year: 20 minutes by bus + 10min walk.

Door to door.

In the evening, it's more uphill, so it takes from 45 minutes upto an hour (when I take the long trail)
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Nothing does more for your fitness than a commute by bike.
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15 minutes by foot

or 7 minutes by tram on cold days
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