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About 45-50 minutes. Half hour or so on Sundays, less traffic. I've recently started parking a 10 minute walk from work though to avoid £4 a day parking which drove me mad and just felt like a complete waste of money.
 
10 minutes each way.

I can push bike the trip in 10 minutes, so I do that. It's easy and it wakes me up so I arrive at work ready to go :)

The Christmas traffic in my town becomes awful around this time, and if I were to drive home from work, it can take me over 45 minutes, but still 10 minutes to cycle. That's why I don't bother driving to and from work.

Bad weather doesn't bother me either, push bike it is!
 
PardonTheWait said:
About 45-50 minutes. Half hour or so on Sundays, less traffic. I've recently started parking a 10 minute walk from work though to avoid £4 a day parking which drove me mad and just felt like a complete waste of money.
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x2. My local multi-storey charges about that, though if you wait till 9:30pm when we shut at 9PM the barriers open, free parkings!

On Saturdays I park at the local McD's and walk the rest, means I don't have to pay parking either. I'm stingy as hell but parking costs do add up.
 
DAIR said:
Where on earth are some of you working?

How is it that some of you fan simply walk down some stairs, take a two min walk and then arrive at work....
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Homeworking it is the future believe me, if I could I would do it five days a week I'm on two and the amount of time I've got back is amazing.
 
By bike it's 26-30 minutes to work, 40 minutes to my girlfriends and then 50 minutes home at night.

By bus it's a 20 minute walk and 35 minute bus to get to work. An hour and a half to the girlfriends and an hour and a half home on busses.
 
Jonesiani said:
The Christmas traffic in my town becomes awful around this time, and if I were to drive home from work, it can take me over 45 minutes, but still 10 minutes to cycle. That's why I don't bother driving to and from work.
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Traffic around my way is hell every day of the year. It really makes me smile when I walk past the cars all stuck in traffic going nowhere and I'm getting home for free and gaining a little fitness at the same time.

The only time it does suck (a little) is when it's dry in the morning but come the evening it's chucking down with rain and I haven't brought a raincoat, so get drowned. That is when a car would be nice.
 
Nearly 30 minutes each way, which gets annoying. I'd love a sub 10-minute commute. Costs around £65 a month in fuel, and that's in a 1.25 Fiesta :(
 
21 miles each way, an hour and twenty on the bicycle.

Takes about the same on public transport and would probably be about two hours by car.

The main difference with cycling to and from work is that it's not time out of my day; the moment I get on my bike I'm doing something I enjoy and I'm getting exercise. I have mates who spend an hour getting home from work to them go to the gym for an hour where they run nowhere and they think I'm a little wrong in the head for cycling.
 
About 1hr45min each way for me. Coulsdon -> Old Street. Been doing it for 10 years now.

But as someone has pointed out I just use it as a bed time extension, I can get real good kip on the main train journey. Living at the end of the line means I always get a good seat where I can prop my head up.
 
I actually love the fact that my commute is ~6 minutes (google maps suggests 11, but seeing as I do this at 6:45am the roads are dead), it's been this way for almost 3 years now. I'd have never appreciated it before, as I used to commute anywhere between 40 and 70 miles (each way) for the 6 years before my current job, and I assumed this was a) normal, and b) acceptable. Looking back at just how much time I wasted in traffic, on the M6 has made me appreciate my 3.2 mile commute that much more!

I'm literally going from one side of town to the other.

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I mix up my commute a fair bit to keep things interesting.

If in the main office 17 miles away:

25 to 50 minutes depending on traffic if I drive
about 2 hours and 21miles if I take the mountain bike

If in a local office 6 miles away:

20 minutes by car
30 minutes on the CX bike
1 hour if I take the mountain bike and a more interesting route

If I work from home:

No travel time. :D
 
25-30 minutes and that is more than enough for me, I wouldn't want to commute for any longer than that.
Work to live, not live to work :)
 
30mins on a good day, 45-60 mins on a bad day.
I used to start at 0730hrs, not 0900hrs, and it took me 20 mins back then! The increase from 20 mins to 30 mins was bad enough, let alone 2 hours! I don't know how you cope.
 
45mins door to door, which includes a tram trip and a short train trip. It's not bad and there are enough trains that if the tram is late it isn't to much of an issue to still get in on time.

Used to do a 1.5hr door to door commute which involved two trains and over the years the connection time between them got shorter and shorter as time tables changed until it was less than the variance the train companies allow and still claim to be "on time" ... that wasn't a nice commute and I'm glad I don't do it now.
 
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