Beaverstate

I am preparing to exchange my 5.5 mile 12 minute commute for a 25 mile (one way) 35-40 minute commute. I am sure mine is far from the worst.
What are you all facing? Probably best not answer this while on the interstate

Speedwell

With gas prices as they are, my short commute (3 miles, ~10 minutes) is about all I want to do. One or two days a week my commute is actually 0 miles and 1 minute, not counting the time it takes to hook up the laptop.

Mr Weeze

You're kidding, right? With gas prices less than $3.50 in Houston? I do 45 miles a day so I bought a car that gets 28 mpg. This is compared to about $9 a gal in the UK, right?

Duncan Roberts

A couple of years ago I traded my 20 mile trip to downtown that could take anywhere from 35 minutes to 2.5 hours for a 3 mile, 5 minute one. Happy days! There's construction on the street the office is on right now so that adds a few more minutes but I can't really complain too much.

Nutek

About 20 miles each way for me.

20 - 25 minutes without traffic, which I manage to avoid most days.
Anything up to an hour if I get the timing wrong though.

Pulaski

For the past ten years I have commuted 84 miles round trip. My concession starting six years ago was to take the park and ride bus for the last few miles, cutting my drive down to 62 miles, and eliminating my parking cost entirely.

My commuter car used to get 32-34 mpg, though increased ethanol appears to be responsible for knocking that back to 29-31mpg. The other mitigating factor is that for most of that time (the first few months, for two years after little Miss P was born, and the last 10 months since little Miss P started school) I Mrs P has commuted with me, so there was zero marginal cost for her commute.

Speedwell

The cost of gas to commute is infinity times the cost of telecommuting. I seem to have a lot more money in my pocket since they allowed international teams (boss in Edmonton, co-workers in Aberdeen, Calgary, Shanghai, and Chennai) to telecommute.

Mummy in the foothills

Dh does 55 miles, it's split pretty evenly between country roads and freeway, takes in about 1h 20min so long as there isn't a pile up.

lansbury

Can someone explain what a commute is?

Speedwell

The distance or time it takes you to travel to work and back on a regular basis (on your own or with others in a car pool or public transportation, or some combination).



Oooooh. You don't HAVE one. Irony, I gets it.

Bink

I'm pretty much the same. Roughly 45-50 miles depending on which route I take.

I may have to swap cars with my wife. Mine gets about 17.5mpg and hers more like 35-40mpg...

Normally takes me 25 mins or so in the morning (I go in early to miss traffic) and about 45 in the afternoon. If I left at peak times it would be about 1hr15 each way...

Way better than my London commute though which was 1hr40 mins each way on train and tube...

Bink

tonrob

My commute can take anywhere from 12-14 minutes, each way(!) depending on traffic.

Horrific, I tell you. I'm not even going to mention the carnage should a school bus get thrown into the mix.

Nutek

AmerLisa

My husband used to have a 57 mile (each way) commute to work a little over a year ago now. I really felt bad for him because he'd get up at 4:30 in the morning to get into work early so he could leave work by 2:30 and still have a two hour commute home.

However, he got a new job in downtown Seattle and while it's still a very long commute, he can now take the train (no driving, he gets to read, work, whatever) and his company pays for it!!