How far do you commute?

[Zantimisfit]

80 mile round trip daily. Suppose it gives me a chance to wake up properly in the morning

 

Followed a bright orange Sunbeam Stiletto the other day. No other firm recent memories

[scruff]

My commute now is 2.6 miles though I'm often then jumping in the lorry and going all over the country. Much more enjoyable when the fuel bill isn't coming out of your personal bank account!!

 

It's great having a short commute after doing silly ones, I often walk it as it's footpaths across fields and bloody lovely in summer or on a crisp morning. It's not much good for the A35 especially this time of year as it barely gets off choke but a tank of fuel lasts about 3 weeks.

[beko1987]

About 45 miles a day for the round trip.

[captain_70s]

Pretty much bang on 50 miles a day here, takes about 45 mins each way and the Civic is getting about 40-43mpg. I leave at around 6:30am and get home at around 4:15pm most days.

 

The route is a mixture of A and B roads and passes through a few small towns. It's actually a really nice route but after two years I'm utterly sick of it and my enthusiasm for driving has died. Its also too long for using an older car, I tried with the Doloshites but 30-35mpg on bumpy, salty roads ruined me financially.

[Barry Cade]

Depends if I get parked in my usual spot, if someone pinches it then my commute to my office can be as much as 100 yards.

[xkjagnz]

160km (100miles)a day, the first/last 25 along a country road which at present is largely unsurfaced.

[MarvinsMom]

i think its 143 miles door to door from TS12 to NG13.

 

but i only make the journey on a monday morning and a friday afternoon as i stop in digs at Nottingham before coming home.

 

done it for 5 and 1/2 years and its shit.

 

i did say when i took the job that it lasts as long as it lasts, and i'm still doing it badly....

 

still if i'm still doing it this time next year than i will handing in the notice and looking forward to becoming a bum! (i did say something similar last year)

[egg]

depending on location 22 miles, 33 miles, 37 miles, 42 miles, 45 miles or 50 miles each way...its all west up the M2 which is good for not driving into a low winter sun. But the M2 is a bloody dull road, my greatest thrill is avoiding the pot holes. Plenty of working at home too to keep my post count up

[fairkens]

About 35 miles each way, mix of country roads, town roads, A roads and motorway. Takes anything between 50 mins and 2 hrs depending on who's being a dick. Great fun early mornings/ late evenings but sucks the life out of you day after day

[cort16]

60 miles a day some of it through m8 rush hour bastarding traffic . Takes an hour on the way there and and 45 mins on the way back.

I get 53 mpg from the juke and have managed to survive this by listening to various podcasts.

 

I'd prefer a life that didn't involve this.

 

I did once try to learn French but after 3 weeks I was on disk 1 of 20 so chucked it. Merd

[hairnet]

1.9 miles each way - but i do 1200 miles a week in the van

 

bike does 60+ mpg so no filling up for agggges on a 3 gallon tank

 

but ive averaged 14k on the bike for the last 6-7 years

[Pillock]

If I'm in the office, 234 miles is what I claim for from Leics to Slough and back again. Or a similar amount to Preston Brook, the other office.

 

If I'm not in the office, I've just increased my commute by moving the desk from one side of the dining room to the other, so it's gone from about 60ft to nearer 70ft. 

 

Thankfully, I'm only in the office somewhere between once a week and once a fortnight, and perhaps one day a week in another location; Leeds and London are favourites at the minute, which are 180ish each.

[catsinthewelder]

6 miles each way so 10-20 minutes drive or 40 minutes or so into work on the bike downhill for a thousand feet so I have no intention of finding out how long it will take to ride back.

[stripped fred]

Mine is either 1, 4 or 15 miles one way but then I also use my car in the day too. I don't derive a lot of pleasure from the 406 to be honest and do think about changing it but I can't afford anything better and it does the job. I had to walk a few miles earlier in the week when my car was at the garage and I really enjoyed it. Felt good to walk past the queues of cars for a change.

[Junkman]

The days when I drove 50+k miles per year for work are thankfully 20 years in the past.

Imagine that today. I'd be on a killing spree compared with which the IRA would be considered a peace force.

 

For the next four months, I'll have a commute of 85 miles one way. But I'm only going there and back once a week, staying four days.

That this commute is straight through the Peak District in the midst of Winter is the very reason for my Range Rover WBoD.

 

I guess after that, I'll hand in my licence and never drive again. Too unbearable have those grade A deadfucks become, who clutter

British roads nowadays, seemingly on a mission to optimise OMGMPG, instead of driving the fuck ON.

90% of the congestions in Britain are caused by people just dawdling around, instead of booting that bloody pedal, for God's sake.

 

Add to this the woefully inadequate infrastructure, which just hasn't kept pace with what's going on, despite the taxation being on

the same level as it is in developed countries.

[billyboy406v6]

Between 8 and 40 miles a day depending which building site I am on.

[Jerzy Woking]

I do 120 miles a day (6 miles of country lanes then it's a mix of dual carriageways and motorway to the office door. Been doing it since 1995. Do it on a motorbike and have 4 bikes I use in rotation-a 400 scooter or the choice of 2 60O IL4's and a 650 V-Twin.

This year though I'm going to wimp out when the weather is really cold or snowy and buy a small hatchback (sub £300). Best I start looking seriously for one now.

[Junkman]

This year though I'm going to wimp out when the weather is really cold or snowy and buy a small hatchback (sub £300). Best I start looking seriously for one now.

 

Well dah...

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/26487-force-ale-pissoh-206-mot-march-250-quid-ideal-wbod-now-with-piccies/

[Supernaut]

A mile each way.

 

I cycle in fairer weather, and otherwise walk. I can walk faster than the traffic along the route moves during rush hour.

 

Some mornings, I even see Tayne heading the other way in his 330.

[AMC Rebel]

Really interesting seeing these - for years I did silly mileages in company cars like Junkman, and like Junkman I would go postal if I had to do it now.

 

Then for more years I used to do the weekly commute thing to some god-forsaken hole.

 

My commute is about 15ft.

 

With that said, since my ex decided to move from here to the paradise of West Bridgford in Nottingham (which likes to pretend it isn't in Nottingham, but is - like all that cack about London being a load of little villages - yeah right), I have a round trip of 34 miles two mornings and two evenings a week to take my daughter to/from school.  I can use the M1 in the mornings, but it's usually at a standstill (or close to) in the afternoons by the time I'm going.

 

The various A road routes are getting steadily more clogged, not helped by the approval of more than 4000 new houses and a massive Incinerator around here with no improvements to the roads, and this will only get worse.  I can't afford a house in West Bridgford (or at least not one that would have any space for my hobby!!) so I'm hoping that by the time the journey becomes totally ridiculous, my daughter will be old enough to make her own way.

 

Considering getting a Leaf/Zoe as I think my use case is pretty much an exact fit - man maths will soon make the 7-8K the oldest ones are fetching outweighed by cheaper fuel costs.

 

Slightly off-topic, but the insanity of our supposedly "green" transport policies and massive concentration of everything in that London means it is cheaper and quicker for me to visit our Dublin office by flying there than it is to go to the London one - by train which is the only viable means. 

[Supernaut]

 

Considering getting a Leaf/Zoe as I think my use case is pretty much an exact fit - man maths will soon make the 7-8K the oldest ones are fetching outweighed by cheaper fuel costs.

 

 

Maybe try *dun dun duuunnn* leasing one for a bit?

 

Tayne is the man to talk to about electric cars though. He's really been doing his research on them!

[AMC Rebel]

Too unbearable have those grade A deadfucks become, who clutter

British roads nowadays, seemingly on a mission to optimise OMGMPG, instead of driving the fuck ON.

90% of the congestions in Britain are caused by people just dawdling around, instead of booting that bloody pedal, for God's sake.

 

Add to this the woefully inadequate infrastructure, which just hasn't kept pace with what's going on, despite the taxation being on

the same level as it is in developed countries.

 

100% agree with this, would like to add

 

Temporary fucking traffic lights - the permit system was meant to encourage utilities to get the fuck on with the job, but it's the reverse, around here at least.  At least 6 times a year, every year part of my route is disrupted by Severn Trent, who for 90% of the time they have the cones out and the lights up, aren't doing any work at all, but because they have the permit, don't want to move the cones and lights and let us all get moving.

[AMC Rebel]

Maybe try *dun dun duuunnn* leasing one for a bit?

 

Tayne is the man to talk to about electric cars though. He's really been doing his research on them!

 

Last time I looked leases were crazy prices.

[willswitchengage]

21 mile there-and-back commute. According to my time sheet I have cycled 84% of days this year, and driven 9% (the remainder are receiving lifts). I have driven less than 2000 miles so far this year, and done over 7000 on the push-bikes...

 

I have a friend down the road who works at the same place as I do, so we take it in turns to drive when the weather's too crap to cycle. I hardly ever commute in a car by myself.

[Lacquer Peel]

3 miles there and back, I'm a lazy fat arse but I intend to get on my bike when it's less cold and dark. Could cycle to work on estate roads if I wanted to.

[RobT]

6 miles on a rickety old commuter train, with a short walk to the office.  Or to vary it I drive 4.5 miles, park up in a rare bit of free on-street parking (this being London) and walk the rest.  Doubles my journey time but gives me a break from using public transport.

 

Another bonus is there's a tap room en-route, so on the way home I'll pop in and get a takeaway of the cracking stout they do there.  For any shiters near to Herne Hill in S.London I can recommend this place as an apres work bolt hole!

 

http://www.thebullfinchbrewery.co.uk/bullfinch-beers/

 

 

[themildbunch]

28 miles each way 4 or 5 days a week from Stroud in to Bristol - self employed so I start and end a bit later to miss the traffic which helps..

 

I'd say this is the most I'd want to commute per day - takes about 40 - 50 minutes if not bad traffic...  80p B100 and a BX makes it fun and not too expensive... liftshare too one or two days a week to reduce the costs and makes the journey much quicker...  Can't believe how few people do it..

[Dave_Q]

4 miles each way. Takes about 15 min whether in a car or on a pushbike. 

[oldcars]

About 6 miles round trip, With the ice last week and the Reliant i would say 4 of them were sideways.

[theguvnor]

186 Miles a day , Hopefully only 3 after christmas.