JerseyBoy

Sounds like a hellish existence...

JerseyBoy

My commute from Market Harborough to Leicester (18 miles) increased from 35 to 50 minutes over the 4 years I was there, and the journeys down the M1 / M25 / M2 to my family in Kent increased on average from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours.

Here I drive all over Northern NJ, and find times are far more predictable, driving more relaxed, and the experience more pleasurable than in the UK. That said, there are huge potholes in some roads that scare the c**p out of me, and I do avoid most of the rushhours. I was in NYC the other day, and spent an hour moving 1 mile down 42nd St.

superpat

My old commute (St Mary's Island, Chatham, Kent to Central London - ~30 miles):

• Walk 200yds to bus stop
• Wait an indeterminate length of time for bus to rail station
• Sit on bus for between 10-20 minutes
• Wait up to 20 minutes for train, depending on bus journey
• Sit on train 45+ minutes, depending on a number of factors - leaves, snow, wind, sun, whatever
• Walk 5 minutes to office

Total time = 1hr15min on a good day, 2hr+ on a bad day

My new commute (Cambrian Park, San Jose, CA to Santa Clara, CA):

• Out of rush hour - 20 mins drive on freeways - 12 miles
• In rush hour - 20-30 mins drive on surface streets - 10 miles

No contest, really...

Pat

Jxab12

95.5 PLJ is kinda like Capital Radio without Chris Tarrant.

Yosser

My last job in England was a 45 to 1 hour drive through nightmarish holidaymaker traffic, and getting stuck behind foreigners as they drive at 35 mph on a 60 stretch.

My first job in the U.S would be 1 1/2 hour on a good day, 2 hours on a bad.

My present job, is a real bummer, turn right out of the estate, drive through the resort style community (fishing pond, tennis court, waterpark and a 18 hole gold course) drive 3 miles through country side, one traffic light later, I'm at work, total of 10 mins. Its a hard life

Rockgurl

My current commute is great...10 minute drive along the North Circular and I'm there. The journey home is worse...about 30-40 minutes in the rush hour. I used to work in Victoria and it was an hour and a half by tube (including a 20 minute walk). I used to arrive home exhausted every day and I hate being crushed in the dirty sweaty tube. It always seemed worse in the afternoon when everyone had had time to get smelly! The morning was ok because people were freshly showered. I'm dreading the commute in Arizona because I won't know where the hell I'm going or how to drive on the wrong side of the road! :scared:

excpomea

You'll learn.

Pulaski

I swapped an hour door-to-door, on a good day, to work in London using SW Trains and London Transport (I'll leave how bad a bad day was to your imagination ), though curiously the journey home took consistently ten minutes longer, for a just over an hour's drive on a typical day (bad days are no worse than the trains and tubes in London managed to inflict upon me), followed by an eight minute walk, though the drive home is usually ten minutes shorter than the drive to work in the morning.

What I miss about my London commute is that I used to spend the time reading books, and it is difficult to do that when driving on the interstate, ..... though not impossible to judge by one driver I have seen while driving to work here in NC! :scared:

Taffyles

It was 15 mins down the road for me in UK. Here its 45 mins (out of rushhour) - anything up to 11/2 hours (in rush hour).

hhmaker

Hi swapped a weekly commute from London to the Far East for a 1 1/2 hour trip from New Jersey to New York. BA had more ontimes that New Jersey Transit but at least my kids now call me dad.

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