https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/08/how-far-distance-workers-commute-uk-cities-mapped
I used to do Leighton Buzzard to Watford (45 minutes each way), then to Cranfield (20 mins)
Now I walk 400yrds! :P
What's yours like (if you still work)?
Walk about 800 yards around one of the fields with 'the pack'. (At stupid o'clock)
(The dumped collie, which looks like we'll be taking on, has a tendency to get out, and onto the road, if she's not monitored...So I can no longer just open the back door and go, "Off you go then".)
Put the pack back indoors.....Go and check the outdoor horses....Check the sheep....Check the chickens........200 yards ?
Make a coffee....walk back upstairs...Start pushing putty.
The actual 'commute' is really only about 40 yards. (Bed, downstairs, back upstairs.)
Cheers - Phil
16 miles-ish. About an hour door to door.
7 miles and about 10 minutes from my house to the unit. I've never enjoyed commuting at all, the longest used to be over an hour each way when I worked at Flamingo Land.
12 miles home to work in the car takes 20 minutes, on my bike about 45 minute s.
25 miles on my motorbike along the back roads from Kerikeri to Kaikohe in Far North district of NZ spectacular scenery all the way :D :D :D :D :D
Cheers
Ian
If I walk about half a mile, but normally its a car journey in a big loop of 2-3 miles, to drop off wife and smallest daughter at different schools. Then at end of day to pick up both daughters from different schools.
Longest (in time) used to be in London, probably an hour each way, but I was young!!
Waaay back when I was a contract computer operator (mid 70's) I got a nights only contract at Heathrow Airport decoding the black boxes. I stayed in Hounslow for a week but it actually cost me a lot less to stay at home in Southend and commute every day. According to Google maps it takes 2 hours and 5 minutes. Stuck it for about 5 weeks then asked for somewhere else.
MickS
Ah! Commuting I remember it ... vaguely :)
12 miles, 2 on single track road then zooming off along the Tingwall straight😀 when I first came up here my house was in the same village as the school so a slow saunter of about 500 yards... down South 40 miles each way.
About 17 feet back door to hut, 20 feet if I check the seed feeder on the way.
Nowadays it's literally ten steps down into my cellar and computer desk.
MickS
About 40 miles to work - and at least an hour...Exmoor is a long way from anywhere that's not, um, Exmoor.
To be honest, I like it - it gives me time to plan my day and time to unwind on way home :)
Plus, it's Somerset - so the scenery is beautiful 8)
I commute 19 miles, It takes about 25 mins, although I have done it in quite a bit less than that, when I had a Porshe Boxter S as a courtesy car while mine was being repaired after a Post Office van reversed into me.
On one occasion a few years back in the snow it took me 7.5 hours to get home
Quote from: Techno on 08 June 2016, 07:51:57 PM
Walk about 800 yards around one of the fields with 'the pack'. (At stupid o'clock)
(The dumped collie, which looks like we'll be taking on, has a tendency to get out, and onto the road, if she's not monitored...So I can no longer just open the back door and go, "Off you go then".)
Put the pack back indoors.....Go and check the outdoor horses....Check the sheep....Check the chickens........200 yards ?
Make a coffee....walk back upstairs...Start pushing putty.
The actual 'commute' is really only about 40 yards. (Bed, downstairs, back upstairs.)
Cheers - Phil
HANG ON!!!! What about the obligatory round trip to A&E
Define work.
Nearly fifty miles. :'(
35km or 25 miles, roughly an hour each way by bus and train, when I'm not working from home
Gives me plenty of time to read the forum on the train and as Nick said a nice chance to unwind on the way home. No point trying to plan my day, my role is pretty reactive ;)
About 10 minute drive to park and ride then 15 minutes on the bus
About 20 minutes to work on a good day - 5 mins to station, 10 minutes in the train into Wellington and 5 mins walk to the office for me.
A walk downstairs.
Quote from: d_Guy on 09 June 2016, 03:32:56 AM
Define work.
Reminds me of the celebrated conversation outside a government building in Prague in the old days:
Tourist: How many people actually work here?
Czech: About half.
6 mile bike ride each way that takes about 20 minutes, depending upon traffic lights.
Mine's rather similar to Techno's, but less rural.
Get woken by the mithery dog, stumble down to let him out for a wee before he goes in the house, then stumble out in my dressing gown and jim jams to let the chickens out and put their feed/water in, then back inside and cup of tea for Ms. Pixie and getting dressed, then back down to the extension and my laughingly described as a "work" bench to start painting talking to customers on the phone!
Actual time from waking to working is probably twenty mins still, which is a bit rubbish on a 20ft commute :D
520 feet, to the main gate, my office is just past that, so 580 feet (measured on google earth)
Before I moved departments the distance from the main gate to my office was 660 feet. Officially I am at work when I knock on the gate. :d
10 km; so about 15 minutes.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 June 2016, 08:06:15 PM
520 feet, to the main gate, my office is just past that, so 580 feet (measured on google earth)
Before I moved departments the distance from the main gate to my office was 660 feet. Officially I am at work when I knock on the gate. :d
They let you in :o
For me about 18km, about 20mins if I set off before 7am...
Quote from: paulr on 13 June 2016, 12:32:54 AM
They let you in :o
Reminds me of the South African joke, just before the first open election:
F. W. de Klerk, five minutes after coming out of a coma in hospital: What do you mean, you let him out!?
Quote from: paulr on 13 June 2016, 12:32:54 AM
They let you in :o
More to the point, they let me out in the afternoon.
If I go to the office, 80+ miles round trip. If I go to the project site, 100+ miles round trip.
Now I am on a line 3 mile round trip. When I was relief staff I could be based at any one of four stations across the county which meant anything from 5 minutes to up to an hours travel.
Whilst on shift the furthest I have travelled was 357 miles in one night taking in Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and thirteen towns. Ipswich, Woodbridge, Saxmundham, Beccles, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Mildenhall, Soham, Cambridge, Haverhill, Sudbury, Colchester and Felixstowe. Spent the whole night chasing response times and actually only getting to three patients all of whom didn't need an ambulance.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 June 2016, 11:40:25 PM
More to the point, they let me out in the afternoon.
I have been desperately trying to find a way to get them to keep him in for the night and share a room with a 18 stone bodybuilder to "look after" him :d
I used to have a cracker, 400 mile round trip by car, train and helicopter. Once a fortnight; mind you it was to a platform 100 miles east of Aberdeen. ;D
Hey SV52, you might have known/worked with a mate of mine who did the same! Mind, I think his longest "commute" was probably the one to Central Asia somewhere to sit behind a very big fence and some armed teenage guards on a site in the middle of one of the 'Stans...
10 years ago I did SW London to Reading and back a 90 mile round trip M25 - M3 - M4 hated it, lasted 6 weeks before going back to a lower paid local job, was not worth the stress. Too many dickheads in cars.
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: toxicpixie on 14 June 2016, 08:47:00 AM
Hey SV52, you might have known/worked with a mate of mine who did the same! Mind, I think his longest "commute" was probably the one to Central Asia somewhere to sit behind a very big fence and some armed teenage guards on a site in the middle of one of the 'Stans...
Unlikely unless he was with the same company or on the same installation as me. Yeah some guys have got crazy ones, like the fellas working off Newfoundland who 'commuted' from London Heathrow to St. Johns fortnightly! Never had a desire to work anywhere that ended in 'stan' or 'eria' ;)
Yeah, I guess it's like saying "hey, my mate works in IT in London, you'll know him!" :D
Although if you go to the club in Aberdeen you may have crossed paths ;)
As my personal commute is to the extension I don't worry too much about travel time or being sent to do job costing audits in foreign countries ;)
Hullo,
Around 4 miles. 30 min by bus and a short train hop, or 25 mins by bike. Not bad at all. My worst "commute" was 43 trips between London and Helsinki in one year when leading a design team split between the UK and Finland. Made me hate business trips with a vengeance.
Cheers,
Aksu
Couldn't agree more about business trips.
In a previous role I ended up repeatedly commuting to Auckland for several days at a time to provide training. You know you have been staying at a hotel too much when the waitress in the restaurant comes to your table and says, "Hi Paul, what would you this evening" without bothering to hand you a menu
In a previous role in the late 80's I "commuted" between Wellington and Auckland quite a few times on the RNZAF's SATS service.
They used C130 Hercules and Andovers with parachute bench seats mainly.
Rather than being given a headset you were handed a pair of ear defenders and the in-flight catering was a strong brown paper bag with a apple and a sammie of some sort. The bag could be used for other purposes if things got rough (but I was never called on to use it that way ;) ).
Every flight was a bit of an adventure till eventually they bought a couple of 2nd hand Boeing 757 airliners then it was just another commercial flight.
I used to commute Aylesbury to Hitchin - thats about 36 miles. Quickest I ever did it was 54 minutes.
Wlak 15 minute to metrobus stop. Take metorbus for 6 minutes, walk 5 minutes to shuttle stop. Take shuttle for 30-40 minutes depending on traffic.