Like the title says, share something about your daily commute :)
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
What kind of advice or insights would you like to share with the rest?
Etc.
I walk next door. I like that its close by and I can spend my lunchtime laying on my couch. I hate its close by so I’m practically always working. I would also want to listen podcasts during commute but all of them are too long for my commute. Overall I recommend living close to work. (it’s my own business, I’m not employee)
you’re ‘practically always working’ because it’s your own business, too, not just because you live next door.
I work from home, so I leave my house maybe a couple times a week. Good for not having to deal with other people, bad for never seeing or interacting with other people. You have to put in effort not to be a huge shut-in, which can be nice but not always all the time.
I work from home as well, but I have a dog which forces me to touch grass every day. I also blow the money I save on commuting by eating breakfast at a local coffee shop many mornings.
I work mostly from home, so no commute. I do pay for 2 days/wk at the co-working space either 7 or 30mi away (so 15-35min). I have an electric scooter that goes 65mph and an incredible view on my commute (see attached from Tuesday’s drive), so I enjoy it and the chance to be social with the people at the cowork space.
That looks gorgeous! A good excuse to get out of the house :)
Thank you for sharing.Any additional details on the bike? Is that something you built or bought? Looks really nice!
It’s a Huck Cycles Rebel
Is the scooter stable at 65mph? I feel like it would topple over with a strong gust of wind.
It weighs about 150lbs, I don’t go max speed on windy days, but it’s a nice ride
I commute from my bed to where ever I last placed my laptop.
For me, it’s rolling over to look at it on my nightstand XD Work starts at 8, so my alarm is set for 8 ;)
This is the way.
12 steps downstairs, and that’s it. Yes, I like it that way.
About 45 minutes with car. I mostly choice my own times so almost never drive in “busy”(busy traffic where I live at most add 5 minutes to your commute). As it never soul crushing traffic I don’t really mind.
Some weeks I work 5 days on site from 8:00 till 22:00, but some days I work 2 days on site for 4 hours a day and one day at home. So a extra 1,5 hours a day if I work on site I don’t really mind.
Only thing I would love to change is being able to go with public transport. Most days I can arrive on my work on time. (Even if i need to got up pretty early if I start at 8) But the problem is I can’t get home if I don’t leave before 17:30 from work. That’s mostly not possible. (Or at least I don’t know at the start of the day which time I’m done)
I don’t really care Public transport is a 30 minutes longer commute, or that it is more expensive (my work pays the full ticket price anyway). The problem is I just can’t get home after work.
I really like the 20 min walk to the train station, it partly goes through a park and it always feels very invigorating. It takes about an hour total to get to work or home but I don’t mind at all since it gives me a clean break between work- and private life.
One thing I really hate is when the train is cancelled and I’m stuck with only a tightly packed bus as my alternative for getting home.I would be happy with a train commute. I could get in some reading. I don’t know why so many people have to get to where they’re going so fast. Alas, no trains here. Not even a bus that comes within 2 miles of me.
How often does the train is cancelled in say a month?
Well, you got two kinds of cancellations. Sometimes it’s just a single train because of… reasons… I don’t know. Those aren’t so bad, you just wait for the next one to leave in half an hour. It happens maybe once a month?
The worse ones are when there’s a defect in the rail system, knocking out the entire rail line going home. In those cases you have to travel extra to get to a bus that everyone is desperate to get on. Which causes a lot of shoving and squeezing and very uncomfortable traveling. The alternative is either to get a (ridiculously expensive) taxi or to wait it out for several hours, which is not an option for me. These kind of events only happen a few times as year thankfully, but they’re really awful when they happen.
The thing is, I have to pick up my kids from daycare so I need to get back on time. A major cancellation puts me in an enormous stress mode.
I cycle to the train station for 15 minutes, then ride the train for 6 minutes and walk 5 minutes.
It’s definitely preferable to an hour bike ride and I don’t get affected by trafic.
Absolutely no traffic + taking toll roads: about 30 minutes.
Normal traffic + avoiding a toll road 50 minutes
Traffic: 1 hr to 1.5 or if it’s really bad you just won’t get home… seriously.
I like the time I have to listen to music or kinda rant to myself, I see a lot of interesting stuff.
I hate my commute, give me work from home I am a fucking IT dude who does everything remotely anyways.
I drive 20-25k miles a year in an ev that can “only” go 80 miles. My daily round trip is 66 miles. (I level 1 charge at work if you’re curious)
It’s wild how many of my coworkers will tell me “just buy a closer house lol” yeah sorry I can barely afford to rent where I live 3 counties away.
Leaving before 6:55-7 will save you as much as 20 minutes. Leaving after 7 people are generally going 5-10mph under the highway limit as I suspect many just woke up lol.
One of the few things I don’t hate about my job is it’s a 10-minute commute down an empty highway.
I ride a bike to a next village about 10 min.
Today it was painful, I recently moved here (because of job) and didn’t take all my bike clothes from my parents house jet. So this morning was about 5C and I was in t-shirt and shorts.
Walk from bedroom to office room and turn on my computer. Mostly like full remote, but sometimes miss an office environment honestly.
I’m only in the office once a week. Outside of the winter months, I ride my bike about 4.1 miles (6.6 km). It takes about 25 mins and I cut through a park and church parking lot. I do have to cross one of the busiest roads in my area, with the help of a light. That part is not pleasant. I recently got a phone mount, so now I can listen to the news on my commute as well. The worst part is getting to the office sweaty and having to change into nice office clothes in a bathroom stall. I am the only person who rides to work at my office.
Good on you for taking the bike! :)
Why do you need a phone mount to listen to the news though? Can’t you just keep it in your pocket while cycling?Great question! I’m a woman. Generally my riding pants don’t have pockets and when I wear jeans I can’t trust the shallow pockets to keep my phone secure. I don’t normally wear a jacket when riding.
Also, not that you mentioned this but I wanted to bring it up, I don’t like wearing headphones in traffic for safety. I have worn wireless earbuds, but they fell out too many times and I’d have to go back and search for them.
Fair enough. Shame on me for making assumptions based on a username :) I should have included bag as well as pockets.
Anyway, I can understand why you want to use a phone holder if you’re not that keen on earbuds. I don’t like cycling with a full set either, so I either use just one (thankfully mine are quite snug and haven’t fallen out… yet) or I use bone conducting headphones that wrap around my head. They’re not much for listening to music, but great for podcasts and you can still hear what’s going on around you.
I work as a consultant so it depends where is the client I’m trying to reach… From 5 min walk to 2.5 hours drive
I work from home now but when I did commute, it was 1.5hrs of bus from a suburb to another city across the river. In total I’d have a 3 hour commute a day and returning home, the bus would be so full I’d be pressed up against the window unable to move.
Very happy to not commute anymore, but even if I did have to again, I live downtown now so I’d be able to do a quick walk or bike.
