Commute Time

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by arloiginla

Live in Kelowna, work in Salmon Arm.

1.5 hours each way. I win.

Why would you live in the crappy one and work in the good one?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Why would you live in the crappy one and work in the good one?

Its cheap to live in a crappy place, just ask all those leeches in the suburbs!

[Tinordi]

20 minute walk, 8 minute cycle

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Its cheap to live in a crappy place, just ask all those leeches in the suburbs!

Trust me, I miss my $620 mortgage payment.

[WhiteTiger]

With the purchase of a car, my commute time has dropped from 1 hour to 15-20 minutes. Loving that!

[boogerz]

To work: 8 minutes on a good day, 12 on a bad day
To school: 25 minutes on a good day, 1.5 hours on a bad day

Both by car

Taking transit to work would be 15 minutes on a good day, and to school its 35 minutes on a good day

[chemgear]

I guess this should go here rather than in the "Living in Airdrie" thread:

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/04...mmuting-habit/

It’s only now that I can bear to do the math. Let’s say I worked on average 45 five-day weeks a year. With 10 years of two-hour commutes (for 4,500 hours) and 15 years of 45-minute commutes (for 2,531.25 hours), that’s 7,031.25 hours or 292.97 24-hour days. Of course, nobody actually puts in 24-hour days, so let’s look at it as 878.91 working days. Or 2.4 years.

. . .

“the commuters’ paradox,” in which people mistakenly decide a bigger house in the suburbs will make them happier, even though it may come with a lengthy commute. They calculated that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more than someone who walks to work just to be as satisfied with his or her life.

. . .

Some other Swedes, this time at Umea University in a study of two million of their compatriots, found that couples in which one person commutes for 45 minutes or more each day are 40% more likely to divorce.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Yay for my 13 minute commute.

[OffsideSpecialist]

To school:
15 minute walk
5 minute bike ride
7 minute skate

To work in the summer it's a long haul 30 minute bus ride. I do it all backwards and live downtown while working in the suburbs.

[HELPNEEDED]

To work: 5-7 minute walk along 1st street SW. I love living DT.

[undercoverbrother]

My commute was 45 mins, if I was lucky.

Now it is 15 mins, if I am unlucky.

[Jbo]

Went from 45min each way to 5 minutes.

Life is good

[CaptainCrunch]

Its very weird, I have a 20 minute commute in the morning and an hour home at night.

[MarchHare]

It’s only now that I can bear to do the math. Let’s say I worked on average 45 five-day weeks a year. With 10 years of two-hour commutes (for 4,500 hours) and 15 years of 45-minute commutes (for 2,531.25 hours), that’s 7,031.25 hours or 292.97 24-hour days. Of course, nobody actually puts in 24-hour days, so let’s look at it as 878.91 working days. Or 2.4 years.

A friend and I once discussed this over beers a few years ago. I live downtown and have an average walk of 15 minutes to work (30 minutes round-trip). He lives in the suburbs and has an average drive of 45 minutes to work (one hour and 30 minutes round-trip). The delta between my round-trip commute and his, therefore, is one hour per working day. Assuming five working days per week times 52 weeks (260 days) minus 15 days vacation and 10 stat holidays, there are 235 working days each year. So given the one hour per day extra that he spends commuting compared to me, he's spending 235 hours, or nearly 10 full 24-hour days (!!!) in his car each year. Over the course of a 40-year career, he's wasting more than a year of his life commuting.

[The Yen Man]

I guess I'm one of the only guys who doesn't mind the drive in the morning. I go from Sage Hill to Mcknight and Deerfoot, and it usually takes about 15 minutes in the morning (since I leave the house at 8:20, which would be the tail end of rush hour). Sometimes I wish my commute was a bit longer so I can can catch all of the 8:30am segment on the Fan960, when they have Eric Duhatchuk on.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I guess I'm one of the only guys who doesn't mind the drive in the morning. I go from Sage Hill to Mcknight and Deerfoot, and it usually takes about 15 minutes in the morning (since I leave the house at 8:20, which would be the tail end of rush hour). Sometimes I wish my commute was a bit longer so I can can catch all of the 8:30am segment on the Fan960, when they have Eric Duhatchuk on.

Well you leave after rush hour and your drive is only 15 minutes. Why would you mind?

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

I'm trying to think of any other "thing" in our society that people over/under estimate more than their commute time. I live on 20th avenue just off crowchild and it takes me, door to door 12-18 minutes to get into my office. How someone who lives in Airdrie or Douglasdale takes "20 minutes" to get to work is beyond me.

I live in Douglasglen and I get to my parkade downtown in 25-30 minutes leaving at 7:50am.

If I'm going in early (6ish), then I get there in under 20 for sure.

That being said, it took a lot of trial and error to pin down my optimal route (hint: avoid Deerfoot).

[TurnedTheCorner]

Potential new job will see my round-trip commute be about 90 minutes each work day. Not sure how I feel about that yet.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

I live in Douglasglen and I get to my parkade downtown in 25-30 minutes leaving at 7:50am.

If I'm going in early (6ish), then I get there in under 20 for sure.

That being said, it took a lot of trial and error to pin down my optimal route (hint: avoid Deerfoot).

Ogden Road

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Ogden Road

yeah, for the first bit.