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Really annoying. The most direct route is this one two lane road that has a single patch where no bicycles are legally allowed. So driving and all it takes is one fender bender and it takes me an extra thirty minutes.
I work from home one day a week the rest have to head in since the factory floor needs me.
Wake at 7am, go to bus/ride bike at 8:30, 9:00 work
reverse it at 6pm
repeat.
Edit: Germany.
I live in a city in Germany and work in a office in the suburb:
Used to be grueling, 3h total time commuting in South America's biggest metropolis that left me with no time for life out of work. Now I got a bike so every day I'm riding the equivalent to a land rocket with no air bags. But hey, I can do stuff at night!
It's 16 steps down to my basement office.
I work from home and yes, it's as great as you think. I'm 11 years till retirement and I will NEVER work in an office ever again.
A 20 minute bike ride. Not the most beautiful scenery but I still enjoy a bit of exercise in the morning.
2 km bicycle ride to the train station, 25 minutes by train, 2 minutes walk to the office on the other side of the road.
Commuting in Germany.
Walk 2.5km from home to mini bus taxi rank. Wait for taxi to fill (15 passengers) and we drive 30km. Get off and walk through a mall to office. Takes about an hour total. Afternoons it's just the opposite. Traffic doesn't matter to South African Taxi drivers.
It's an eight minute train ride, and I live like 60ft from the station. Wish I could work from home but boss says no. Could be worse tho, I suppose.
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
Two jobs, both 100% remote (one of them for 22 years).
Try not to trip over the cat.
TL:DR - Ride my bike along a precarious but not terrible inner city suburb of Melbourne Australia. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go 4km. I have the option of a 25 minute riverside bike ride if I'm willing to give up my sleep in.
I live in an "inner suburb" of Melbourne Australia, and I work at a community centre just a few tiny city suburbs away, 4km.
I have an e-bike that I use as my primary vehicle, because of the way my migraine disorder manifests and overlaps with another condition, I can't drive a car. So I've learned how to get by completely carless - living in the inner city suburbs helps so I'm privileged in that regard. But the ebike has been a game changer.
Before covid I had a job about 6km away and I was wasting so much money on buses and uber, it was two buses and an awkward connecting power-walk that meant frequent missed connections and also pushed me just over onto the more expensive ticket because of how our public transport fee system works. So I would lazily uber to work several times a week. And since I was working part time, it wasn't even worth it some days when I had a 2 hour shift. ~40% of my pay cheque would go to ubering to work.
Then covid hit and our state went into lock down. The community centre ran a food bank so my 2 or 3 hour part time shifts became 12 hour days as demand increased but staffing couldn't. I'd always miss the last bus, and uber drivers were few and far between. I tried riding my bike but the 12km return trip was just a bit too far on top of the 12 hour day, so I bought an ebike.
I got a new job, closer, and a very nice ride. I have multiple route options, one of which is a gorgeous separated shared pedestrian-cycle path that follows the local river which I often ride home - I finish at the optimum dog walking time so I get to meet so many puppies on my leisurely ride home. But it's very slow (because of all the dogs which aren't supposed to be off leash, but are) so, my preferred route to work is the fast way. It cuts right through the the town centre, it's an old industrial dock town so it's pretty highly developed but never highly invested in, meaning the roads are horrible and full of trucks. But the council are working on it, and in the last few years they've installed some halfway decent bike infrastructure. The danger is worth the 15 minutes it saves me in the morning.
I either take transit, which takes 35-40 minutes - a combination of bus, metro and a walk, or I bike, which takes 40-50 minutes with time for a shower and changing clothes included. I usually lean towards transit during winter and bad weather, while I lean toward the bike as often as possible otherwise.
I have the option to work from home as much as I want, but I voluntarily go 5 days to the office. I'm planning to shorten down the commute by moving closer to the city center, because I find it to be a bit on the longer side, but I still find going to the office to be a better experience than working from home despite the added time for travel.
Live in the northern US and bike 3 miles to work. Icy right now so I have studded tires and bar kits. I wear a ski facemask and skip the glasses cause they fog. Bike light since it's easy to work past sunset this time of year. Even when it was -30F I only wore one hoody (biking is hard work). Takes me around 15 minutes which is the same as driving. There's bike paths 90% of my commute but I still almost get ran over at every other cross walk. Besides the danger, one of the best things I've ever done for my mental health. And I'm not even the road rage type. I just enjoy the ride
Family gets in car, two minute drive to wife's work, five minute drive to elementary school, two minute drive to daycare, 1 minute drive back home until time for me to go to work in an hour. 2 minute drive to work.
Pre-pandemic I drove 15 minutes to the BART station, hopefully got parking. Walked 5 minutes to the train platform. Waited for train. 50ish minute train ride to downtown San Francisco. 10 minute walk to office. Pretty typical Bay Area commute.
Now, I take my dogs for a walk, get back home, make coffee, relax. Go upstairs and login to work. WFH is the new normal and it’s great.
50 min feels pretty long. How crowded is BART usually?
Where I got on, not too bad, I usually got a seat, but it quickly got crowded. Nowadays I hear it’s better; ridership hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels yet.
10-15 minute bike ride. On the way I in traffic can almost be entirely evaded by swapping the section without bike lane for a bit of trail. The return is a bit more janky because the infrastructure designer probably died from aneurysm as they were designing the road layout.
Drive 15min to Metro station. Ride train for 40min. Switch lines. Ride for another 20min. Walk 5min to office. Then I do that in reverse 8-ish hours later.
I usually read on the train in the morning and game on the way back so it's been somewhat bearable (I'm the crazy kid playing lvl 28 beatmaps on my phone during evening rush hour)
Its a 38 minute drive without tolls and a 33 minute drive with tolls. Ill suffer the 5 minutes to avoid $30 in tolls every month.
I actually live in a more expensive area than where I work, but I do so because the entire state is still somewhat affordable (Kansas) and the city I live in is much more progressive than the one I work in.
About a 50 minute drive. That's as close as I could get and still afford a house.
Wow... I hope that there isn't bad traffic on the way...
Half of it is small highways that aren't too bad as long as there isn't ice and/or deer. Once I start getting to the metro area traffic gets congested. Nothing like LA though.
I live in a small town near Amsterdam and work twice a week in the office in Amsterdam.
My commute is:
What's the bike situation? Do you take it on the train with you or use an app or smthg?
I wonder if they park their own bicycle near the station. Not sure if that's even a thing
It's a thing.
We park the bike near the station. Each station has extensive room for bikes. Larger cities often have underground bike parking.
It looks like the carpet between the kitchen and my library. My commute is all of 100 feet or so down a portrait-lined hallway to the computer. And that's it. And I work for myself, (a part time writer) so i don't really have to struggle with the daily grind of cars, buses, trains, etc.
But - we do have a pretty nifty Trax system here in Utah for commuters going cross town or from downtown to the University. I'd probably use that if I was still working.
Depends on the work day. Once all of my offsprings have been delivered to school and daycare and I get back home, I spend 30 seconds rearranging my bed pillows so that I can comfortably sit with my laptop.
Once in a while it involves a 40 minute drive to my local airport, arriving 20 minutes before boarding begins (tiny airport). And from there we're talking everything from 45 minute to 30 hours until I reach my destination.
I walk 6 min to the closest bus stop, get on the direct bus to the city, 20/40 (summer/winter) min later I am at one of the bus terminals, 2-5 min later I am down on the metro platform, getting on the metro, two stops later I get off and walk 6 min to the office.
US here: I am lucky enough to be able to ride my bike most days as long as the weather isn't terrible. If forced to, I'll drive but I love not worrying about parking and the freedom of a bicycle compared to a car.
I’m mostly remote now, but on my in-office day it’s a 25mi/40km trip. (We bought the house years before I got this job, I don’t have the energy to keep a house showing-ready while working full time, and the houses near work aren’t in great shape.)
The morning commute takes about 40 minutes by car, the evening commute is more like 50-60 minutes. There’s technically bus service available, if I wanted to take 2+ hours each way, but I prefer having time to eat real food and do some exercise and mabye a hobby.
In the US and currently fully WFH, but if I need to go into the office for some reason, it's a 10-15 minute walk.
Walkability is pretty important to me, so I moved to a city with decent public transportation and don't currently own a car. I use ride sharing apps or traditional car rentals on the rare occasion that I need a car, and even though they feel expensive, my annual car expenses are still significantly less than what I'd pay for parking alone if I owned a car.
so I moved to a city with decent public transportation
How hard is it to find housing there, and how expensive is it? I heard that housing in US isn't in good condition
Morning: walk 5 km uphill in the snow. Evening: walk 5 km further uphill in the snow to my second house. Next morning: walk 5 km even further uphill to my next place of work
...and so on until the weekend where I walk 50km back down the mountain to my first house, in the snow.
You should get some skis, that 50km would be much more fun!
I only get paid a nickel so I can't afford skis. But sometimes an avalanche pushes me down faster.
10-second walk down my hallway to my computer.
10-second* walk
Edited.
Same. When I have an appointment with a costumer: usual a combination of private car, train and rental to reach the destination
I walk from my bedroom after getting out of the shower to the desk in my living room and switch on my work PC. Then I go back to my bedroom to put some clothes on.
Before WFH, it was a 30 minute walk which was uphill both ways due to there being a large valley between my home and work. A lovely walk in the summer but hell in the winter due to poorly plowed sidewalk infrastructure.
