Originally Posted By Lisann22 January 19, 2006 - Question of the Day: How many miles do you travel to work each day and how long does it take you time wise?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut good question. I am not that far from work at all. It is exactly 20 miles from door to door. In the mornings if I come to work at regular time it takes me about 30 minutes on the streets (straight up La Palma) or on the freeway (91). Getting home depends. If Im out at regular time than it takes me about 15 minutes or so because the freeway is moving. But if I get out late its about 40 minutes or so. Which is usually the case.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I'm about 7 miles from work and it takes me about 10 - 15 minutes to get here.
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch I live about 7 miles from work. If I drive all the way, it takes between 15-20 minutes in the morning and 20-30 mintues in the afternoon. If I drive to the park-and-ride and take the train, it takes me about 45 minutes both ways. If I leave the car at home and take the bus all the way, it takes about an hour each way.
Originally Posted By Ursula I am 6 miles from my office. It takes 20-25 minutes to get here and last night I set a new record and made it home in 13 minutes. Traffic is just silly getting here. I have to cross Lincoln Blvd and sometimes it takes two or three lights to do so.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I travel all of a few feet to go to work. I telecommute for my company, so I get to work from home every day. Once in a while, I have to go in for a meeting, and when that happens, I just have a few miles to travel. It usually doesn't take me more than between five and ten minutes to go into the office.
Originally Posted By Kylesmom 12.5 miles and 30 minutes comming home, a little longer going to work because I have to drop the kid off at school (his gramma picks him up). It's a lot of 25 MPH surface street between my house and the hwy. No fwy at all on my commute.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 Not sure how far it is, but it's really close. Takes me about 5 minutes to get to work. I love it.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m Right now, I am 14 miles from work, and on a good day, with little traffic and the lights being timed just right, I can make it in 20 minutes (most of it is highway travel). However, when our house is done, it will 17 miles. I'm going to say it will take 30 minutes, because we will be up on a mountain. The main road our development is off of has sections that are two lanes each way, and sections that are one lane each way. The speed limit fluctuates between 45 mph and 55 mph. The road is also pretty windy coming down the mountain. Not real windy like side streets on a mountain might be, because of the speed limits, but it has it's twists and turns and its better if you drive slowly (the speed limit).
Originally Posted By Lisann22 5 miles between work and home. On Saturdays or at night, it takes about 15 minutes tops. During commute time 5:30am to 8:30am, it takes me about 30 to sometimes 45 minutes. Nuts!!
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m Lisann, that is nuts, but I can't say after making my first trip to CA last year for the Big Meet that I am surprised! CA traffic is NUTS!!!!
Originally Posted By Kylesmom Not all CA traffic is bad, just in the metropolitan areas. And if you think it's bad in LA and OC, try the bay area, yikes!
Originally Posted By piperlynne Funny question, we just had to figure this out. I travel 26.85 miles to work each day and it takes 1 hour and 30 minutes door to door. On the way home it takes about 2 hours door to door. However, I do take a ferry, so 20 minutes is crossing 2 miles of Puget Sound, 10 minutes to the ferry, about 15-30 minutes on the road to work and the rest is waiting in the ferry line.
Originally Posted By DisneyChica CSUB and work are off of the same main road for me. It's just a matter of turning left to go to work or turning right to go to school. On a good day, I can make it from home to campus/work in 11 minutes. Other days I make it in 20. We get off work during our main commute time, (which really isn't much compared to LA's rush hour time) which can add another 15 minutes or so.
Originally Posted By -em Depends what time of day- My Hotel and Mart are next door and it takes 6 minutes from my house to Walmart using back roads and 5 minutes from my house to the Hotel in the morning (10-12 on weeknights as I miss all the lights) using main roads -em
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well I work out by the Lawrence Livermore Lab. 60,000 people trying to get to the same place on a 2 lane road all around the same time.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I drive about 5 minutes to work...with the school zone it could be as high as 10.
Originally Posted By alexbook I travel about 6 miles each way. About an hour to get to work (I take two buses). Getting home generally takes longer because the bus connection isn't well timed. Often I just bag waiting for the second bus and walk the last 2 miles.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder my office is at my home, so I dont actually drive to my office. However I work out in the field and cover a large territory, so I do a lot of driving when I am out. Overall the majority of my business is in CA where I live, split between Southern and Northern CA [Southern being a lil more] I used to fly between here and No. CA, but I found that renting a car, carrying around all my stuff, always realizing that I did'nt have everything I needed, became a hassle, so I began driving it instead. That's my longest drive I do for work, between LA and the bay area. I have 3 main places I stay, it's usually about a 5 and a 1/2 hour drive depending on conditions. I also drive L.A. to Phoneix Az about 5 hours, and L.A. to Las Vegas about 3 1/2 hours. L.A. to San Diego CA-Tijuana MEX about 2 hours. I fly to my other destinations. Normal local driving to various business contacts in L.A. area during regular weekday traffic, about 45 - 90 minutes.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder >>"And if you think it's bad in LA and OC, try the bay area, yikes!"<< I agree, maybe it's because I am less familiar with the different places I need to go up there, but all the "80's" can get pretty congested during peak traffic I-80, 580, 880, etc and 101 from from San Francisco to San Jose, yikes, once took me 2 hours. One of my best friends lives in No CA, I am always suggesting they move down here so we can hang out at Disneyland more often but they claim So. CA has too much traffic and I totally disagree, but I cant convince them of that.
