I’m assuming that most of you are from the US so probably using cars, but lemme know if you use trains, subways, buses, etc.
Me? Back when I was doing an internship I walked to a nearby station for 10 minutes then transited to another train line, which could be an instant or 20 minutes wait. After that I walked for 10 minutes to my work place. So it was probably about 40 minutes of commute. Of course, I live in tropical country so I’m drenched in sweat as I arrive in the office.
Fortunately every year my city’s public transportation seems to get better and as a result I barely needed to use cars.
I drive 30 minutes into work, but it’s against traffic both ways, so it’s a smooth ride.
Well, only because we’ve separated the travel lanes
I leave between 6:10 and 6:15am, get on my e-bike and arrive at work 25 min later.
10 minute bus or bycicle ride to the nearest train station and then a 10 minute train ride to my university
4 years back it was a walk to the station and a half hour train ride.
Now I walk downstairs after waking up at 9:30.
5 minute walk. Of course i usually have to pick up my dogs poop on the way, but hey…evry commute isn’t perfect.
Ii manage a farm. My commute is just walk outside
Depends on which office I work at.
Cycle to the closest train station and catch the sprinter to the Utrecht Centraal.
If I work in my normal office I catch a bus to the Utrecht office.
If I work in Amsterdam I stay on the same train and get off at the station and walk for about 5 min to the office.
If I work in Rotterdam I switch trains at Utrecht Centraal to a line going to Rotterdam centrum, then take the metro to the office.
All trips take about an hour.
I live in a NYC suburbs and work in another. It is possible to take a bus/train to NYC from each, but no direct way between them. So I drive the 18 miles. I have to cross a bridge. That makes for a traffic bottleneck. Without traffic, it’s less than 30 minutes. With traffic it can be 1.5 hours. One snowstorm made for a 5 hour ride home.
I’m in the UK - live in a rural location and work at several other rural locations. It is a 10 - 45 min drive depending on which one I am at. There is no suitable public transport to any of them - and since I sometimes have to head over to another for some incident or another, cycling - which would be possible to the closest one otherwise - would then prove difficult.
In my first job, I used to cycle 5 miles each way daily, and I was able to walk to one job for a while, but pretty much every other job has required me to commute by car/truck - mostly 20+ mins. One short-term job involved driving 1 hour 30 or more - but it was only ever going to be short-term.
I get up, let out the dogs & chickens. Bring the dogs back in & feed the cats and dogs. I have coffee, then I go to my office. I’ve been working from home since 2010 and I’ll never go back to an office situation.
Edit: New England, in the US
Winter (north Scandinavia): 10 minutes by car. Options are walking 1 hour or bus+walking ~40 minutes depending on how close you like to cut it on the bus stop.
Summer: option of bike 15 minutes. Not an option during winter. It’s okay above -15 C, flat ground, low traffic and well plowed streets. None of those are true here.
