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A 30 minute walk across the city center

I mostly work from home. My workplace is about 13km away. There's a bus, but the connection is only hourly and doesn't align with my with hours all that well, so I only take it in winter.

If possible, I go by bike. It's a nice route across country and small towns, but it's quite hilly (150m/200m) and there no showers at work, so I opted for an ebike.

When I'm not broken, an 8 mile cycle ride that takes around 30 minutes. I'm currently recovering from a broken kneecap and getting the bus in, which is about 20 minutes and 5 minutes walk each end.

Not bad at the moment.

Public transport is a bit awkwardly scheduled relative to my start times. A train only takes about 30 minutes, including walking to and from the station but it either gets me in super early or just a hair too late. I tend to take a bus instead because it's a better fit, I get to leave a little latter than the early train while still being on time. But it takes about 40 minutes in total, which includes a bunch of extra walking because the route starts another suburb over.

I often get a ride in, depending on whether my schedule lines up, which only takes about 15-20 minutes depending on traffic. I feel a little guilty because this is the shortest commute I've ever had by far yet the first time I've not primarily used public transport, but I do really appreciate the convenience. I unfortunately sweat a ton (I really should talk to my doctor about hyperhidrosis, it's extremely bad) so even the short walk from the bus/train station will leave my hair gross and matted, which then turns in a terrible case of triangle head.

I've thought about getting an ebike. There is a separated bike path that is a little bit indirect but covers like 90% of the route. I think I could get there at least as fast as the bus. Could be quicker, but I'm not taking a direct route as it's just bicycle gutters in an area that sees a ton of industrial traffic. Fuck riding by trucks.

Wish I could say the same about our public transport improving, it's only gotten worse. It all got privatized awhile back.

Before switching to full time WFH I had a 20 mile (32km) drive. At rush hour it took a minimum of 60 minutes if there were no “incidents”. Incidents were a regular occurrence and would easily cause the commute to balloon to 90-120 minutes.

I would from time to time check in to see what the public transportation options were. Public transportation looked something like:

15-20min walk to the bus stop. 40 minute bus ride to the light rail terminus. 20 minute train ride 10 minute shuttle ride from the light rail station to the office.

So about 90 minutes of travel on a perfect day with no wait between transportation modes.

I opted to “beat the rush” by leaving at 5:30am. That way it was an under 30 minute drive.

10 minute bus or bycicle ride to the nearest train station and then a 10 minute train ride to my university

I leave between 6:10 and 6:15am, get on my e-bike and arrive at work 25 min later.

Five minute stroll to the bus stop, 3 minute chillout there, hop on the bus, 10 minute ride to the destination and a five minute stroll to the office.

These days, I walk about 2 meters right from my living room. It's about 1.5 hours (~30 walking, two trains with one transfer) if I need to go into the actual office (maybe once quarterly)

I leave home around 7:55 and get there around 8.

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

Wake up, drive kids to school, drive home and sit on my desk. Does it count as commute?

25 minute car drive. I almost never have traffic jams during my commute. The longest it has taken me was around 40 minutes when I had to take a detour due to farmers protests.

I have a bus stop near my house. It takes 45 minutes to get to the city of my job and then I have to take another bus to get to my job itself.

It would probably take a bit over 1 hour to get there on a bicycle. I would get extra money if I went to work on a bicycle. The main reason I don't cycle to work is that I don't think it's safe. Most of the route I would have ride on a little strip 2 meter away from cars and trucks going 90km/h. Or I can take a longer route where I have to ride on a little strip right next to traffic going 70km/h.

Usually 10-15 minutes of bicycle riding followed by 40 minutes of train, then 10-15 minutes in the subway to get a commuter train to my place of work.

I work a bit of a weird shift from 3pm-3am, which means I get to skip a lot of traffic. My commute is almost exactly 10 miles and takes about 20 minutes. There's plenty of other cars on the road when I go in, but not so much that traffic gets backed up. On my way home I consider it to be a busy day if I see 3 other cars.

I live towards the rural end of the suburbs, a decent amount of woods and farms and such around, and my work is in a slightly denser part of the suburbs.

My drive is pretty straightforward, I make a total of 10 or 11 turns, 3 are leaving my neighborhood, 4 or 5 (depending on if you count veering slightly right to go through the employee entrance gate instead of stopping at the guard shack) are getting around my work campus. There's 8 traffic light and 3 stop signs along the way.

The first 10 minutes/6 miles or so are mostly on a 2 lane state road, it's mostly flat, a little windy, and runs parallel to a creek. About 1 mile of it is the main street for a small town, where the speed limit is 25mph. The rest of it is 35mph, lightly forested, with some scattered houses, businesses, a high school, etc. along the way.

I come to the end of that road where it connects to another small town, this one a bit larger, I turn left, cross a bridge over the creek I had been driving along, and immediately leave that town, the road opens up to 4 lanes, the speed limit goes up to 40, go through sort of a small commercial district, the speed limit goes up to 45o, then down a fairly large hill that cuts through a small, forested state park, crossing a smaller creek at the bottom of the hill, then back up another hill through a mostly residential area, turn right, then turn right again and im going up the driveway to work.

The roads usually get plowed pretty well when we get snow, I've never had any major issues with that, although I do drive an SUV. Parts of it are prone to flooding though, being along a creek, and with all of the wooded areas we're also a little prone to downed trees and power lines.

Theres a lot of side roads and such that I can make detours onto if needed, although depending on how severe the weather is, some of them are really hilly, narrow, and winding, heavily forested, and don't get plowed as well, so usually that main road is still my best bet. It happened once that due to flooding I was basically unable to get more than about ½ mile from my house in any direction, but that was also a 200 year flood, and it wasn't nearly so bad the year before when we had a 100 year flood (and yes, it was disconcerting that we had major flooding events in consecutive years like that. Climate change is very real, they used to be able to harvest massive blocks of ice from dammed up streams in this area just a little more than a century ago, one of the damn still stands to this day, but I've never seen any of our waterways freeze over more with more than about an inch at most.)

I walk 20 mins (2 km)

In Australia, I drive about 10-15 minutes.

PT would probably take an hour and be a convoluted mess of changing lines and trams/buses. Cycling would take an hour and not practical in summer.

I live in a medium sized city (~95k) in Europe. It takes me around 15 minutes by bike to get to work.

During the winter:

• Walk 2 min to the bus
• Wait 8 min in the bus
• walk 7 min to work

Rest of the year: Cycle 25 min

Drive 3 miles (10-15 min) to subway, park & ride (30 min), walk 5 min to office. A total loss of time, utterly meritless.

It's roughly a 5 minute drive on a well maintained 2 lane country highway. Of course then I spend 4 to 6 hours driving on rough roads filled with farmers after I get to work, but that's another story.

I don't have one place I work at. My job requires I travel so I do a lot of driving (minor perk is I get paid milage and drive time). I normally work at two locations each workday, and it's not uncommon for me to commute over 100 miles round trip. Until recently I was only working two days a week, and now it's between three to four days depending on what I have to do.

Disclaimer: I don't get paid nearly enough and am trying to find work closer to my rural residence. Corporate doesn't want to give raises either.

Hop on my bike and ride east into town. Most of the first two miles is along a stretch where the rightmost full lane is reserved for busses and bicycles; I don't even touch the handlebars. Then tsca short stretch on a regular bike lane and over the river into downtown, where I ride in actual traffic for another mile. All told it's 4.2 miles and takes between 25-40 minutes, depending on traffic, weather, and whether I stop to dick around on my phone in the way.

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.

Ii manage a farm. My commute is just walk outside

There is zero public transportation where I live so it's been strictly car for the last 1.5 years but I just got a job less than 5 miles away so I'm going to try riding my bicycle this spring.

I walk into my home office, as my company like many went fully remote during COVID and stayed that way. However prior to that I had two options:

I could bike, it was about 5.5 miles with bike lanes the whole way (until downtown, where the roads were shared but marked for bike traffic). I think it took me about 20 or 30 minutes, but honestly I don't remember anymore. Going home took longer as it was uphill compared to the way in.

The other option was I could take public transit; there were both buses and a light rail and I greatly preferred the latter. When I did that, it was a 5 minute walk to the light rail, about a 20 minute ride, and then a 10 minute walk to the office.

At the time I lived in a decent sized US city, but since going remote I've moved somewhere smaller. However I really loved having good public transit, and if I ever had to go into an office again either being able to bike or public transit in is a big requirement for me; I can't stand car commuting: it's stressful and wasteful, and has a very negative impact on cities for those that live there.

My commute should be:

• 10 min walk to bus stop
• 20 min bus ride
• 10 min walk

however it usually is:

• 10 min walk to bus stop
• 20 min waiting for bus because the one that was supposed to come through didn't
• 30 min bus ride
• 10 min walk

Which is why I work a lot less hours when I go to the office, I start my clock the moment I would sit to work around 9:00, then start packing, go through the whole process, get to the office at around 10:30 or sometimes later, plug in my laptop, grab a coffee, chat with colleagues, read some emails and by this time it's already lunch time. Come back from lunch, do some work, then meetings, then I need to start packing for the journey back if I'm to make it back home by 17:00.

In short I give 9-5 to the company, if they want me to waste 3 of those hours in commute, plugging/unplugging peripherals and essentially not being productive the entire day it's their problem. I can do my job from home, as I did for a long time before WFH policy changed, if they think going to the office is worth the commute time then the commute time comes from their slice of the day. To me it's not worth it, so I wouldn't spend my personal time commuting to the office.

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.

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.

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.

Walk 2 minutes, take the tram for 6 minutes, walk for another 7 minutes.

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.