Commute Time

[worth]

20 minutes @ 6:00am.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by chemgear

People are either lying sacks of poo or have no concept of measuring time properly when it comes to their commute times.

Door to door is all that counts

Out the door at 4:20am, walk downtown to the ctrain stop. Get to the stop around 4:35-4:40. Take the 4:50 train. Get off at Chinook around 5. Catch the 5:20 bus. Bus 20-25m. Walk 5m from bus stop to work door. Start shift at 6am.



The irritation for me comes in the unreliability of transit, even at that hour. I have a lot of flexible time built into my travel plans because I've seen the 4:50 train come at 4:40. I've seen the 5:20 bus show up at 5:05 and then leave at 5:10. I've seen the 5:20 bus just NOT COME (this has happened 6 times already in the 2 years I've been doing this commute) and I have to wait for the 5:35 bus.

Man I need to get a car. =/

[HOOT]

4-5 minutes, both ways.

4.8km one way.

[MarchHare]

Approximately 15-20 minutes. I live in the Beltline and walk to my office in the downtown core.

[BlackArcher101]

Drive, 13km one-way.

On Mondays, about 30 minutes.
Gradually decreases throughout the week until Friday when it is 15 minutes.

Amazes me how Monday's are chaos on the roads and on Friday it seems that no one goes to work.
Yes, it is a big factor in choosing a location or live or potential work. Who wants to spend a good portion of their time in stop and go traffic? I'd go insane. If it were 100km/h average speed, that would be a different story.

[V]

My last job was about 25 minutes to work, 45 minutes home. On Fridays it could easily push to 1.5 hours home. Worked by Chinook, lived in Whitehorn. Fridays were always insane.

Now my commute is 6-8 minutes. It's incredible.

I just turned down a promotion because it meant that I would have to drive 40 minutes to work in the morning, and who knows how long in the afternoon. I couldn't bear to go back to that.

[Engine09]

28 mins driving, 12.6 kms.

45 mins on the bike.

[calgaryrocks]

20 minutes. I leave at 7 (Bonavista area) and arrive at work at 7:20ish (7:15 on a quiet day) on 25 ave. good ole blackfoot

[VANFLAMESFAN]

15-20 mins max. It was messed up, during the Olympics, I made it to work in 12 minutes. My personal best time. Everyone during the Olympics was taking transit or staying home. Best commutes of my life. Loved it.

[getbak]

I believe this is the report where the original number came from: http://www.bot.com/Content/Navigatio...2011_Final.pdf

It was released this week by the Toronto Board of Trade and compared Toronto to 23 other global cities on general "Prosperity". It made the news in Calgary because we came in 3rd overall behind Paris and San Francisco.

The detailed transportation information starts on page 62 of the PDF. It says it the average time of trip "to and from work", so I don't know if that means round trip or each way. Having been stuck in LA rush hour, I find it hard to believe that the average commute in Los Angeles is 11 minutes shorter than in Calgary.

I found it interesting that a higher percentage of Calgarians take non-auto transportation to work than those damn hippies in San Francisco and Seattle.



To answer the original question, I work off of 64th Ave NE west of the airport and live close to 16th Ave and Edmonton Trail. It's about a 10km trip one way and takes about 10 minutes door to door on a normal day. The trip to work is a little longer just because the interchange at Deerfoot and 16th is a pain when you're going from eastbound to northbound. I used to live by Chinook and took Glenmore and Deerfoot every day. On a good day, I could make it in a little over 15 minutes, on a bad day, an hour wasn't unheard of.

[Sr. Mints]

It's probably because I grew up in the inner city, but I could not stand driving for an hour twice a day to get here I'm going; I'd go crazy. I hate the burbs.

I usually walk, but sometimes bike or run to work/school. Sometimes I catch the train from downtown to the university. I live just off Shaganappi golf course, and even here is farther from the core than I like.

[TurnedTheCorner]

If I'm lucky, it takes me about 25-30 minutes to drive DT. I can get DT using P&R + C-Train in about 40 minutes if I luck out on the train. Typical rush hour drive is closer to 40-45 minutes.

These are one way times. My commute is a shade over 20 km.

[Skate around the circle]

I travel in from Crossfield and can be any where in the the city in an hour when the traffic is moving.

[Option84]

Live at Mcknight/Edmonton Trail. Work at 32 Ave/12th St NE Commute is 10 mins in the morning, 15 mins after work.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Stoney to Bedington to deerfoot to 32nd.

Quickest ever (only about 1month on the job) was about 18 mins or so.

Slowest was about 35 minutes. Maybe a tad more.

Average is probably 25mins.

[parch]

Live in Walden, work near Marlborough. Aprox. 30 minutes to work in the morning, and 40-45 home on average (in good weather). When I started this job I was living in McKenzie Town and worked in the foothills industrial park, and it took 15-20 minutes both ways. I miss those days.

[Cactus Jack]

Here in Sao Paulo I live like 8.5km away and their crappy public transit system takes roughly 40 minutes on average. That's either 2 buses or a bus and a train. At worst an hour each way.
It maddens me when the bus that runs every 6 minutes doesn't show up for 25 minutes, when 4 arrive literally one after the other, or when it stops before a designated stop to let everyone off and goes forward literally 2m before letting others on.Arrrgh

[Scoopdogg]

I live in the Mckenzie Towne area and I leave my house at 6:15 am. I'm sitting at my desk by 7:00 am. This includes me driving to my parking spot in Bridgeland and then walking 15-20 mins to my building.

I usually leave work at 4 and I'm home around 5. The commute in the afternoon is always longer then the morning commute because of traffic.

[psicodude]

From Cranston to West end of DT is about 40 - 45 minutes each way, but the drive is extremely susceptible to accidents, weather, someone farting, etc. Fridays are about 10 minutes quicker.

It sucks that a solid 20 minutes are spent getting from 130th ave to Glenmore.

[drewboy12]

13 minutes to my parking lot from my driveway, and an 8 minute walk to work.