How many time do you waste on journey daily?

[Brian Ellis]

Roughly 10 seconds (each way). My office is upstairs from the living quarters!


When I was in Switzerland, it was 20 seconds: I had the company next door!

[Drizzt]

5 minutes to go, a couple of minute more if there's traffic or if it's cold.
Dunno for the other way, I suppose it takes the same.
(uh, I do this 4 times a day)

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Roughly 10 seconds (each way). My office is upstairs from the living quarters!

D'ya still work? o_O

[Nowhere]

Little update: I have now monthly railway ticket for express trains also, which means two times more trains (not to mention the express ones are in more appealing hours). So the whole situation is more bearable now, although still not quite good (for example now, with the need to buy monthly ticket for express trains, it'd be cheaper to simply reside in the city to which I commute...too bad I'm unable to move right now )
At least now I waste only 5h...

[Elie]

3 to 4 hours daily on the road to work and back, this also depends on weather conditions.

Cheers,
Elie

[Helevitia]

50 minutes to work(used to be 1 hour or more but the finished up a 4th lane and it actually helped!)

1:15 home (sometimes it is less than an hour home)

edit: what about miles driven during that time? I drive about 35 miles each way.

[The PIT]

Normally I walk unless I have to get into work very early to try something out on the network.

This is a general break down of commuting time.

Walking 35 to 45 minutes depending on how many pounds I weight.

Driving 25 to 35 minutes.

Going by Bus 20 to 50 minutes or longer if I just miss a bus. Most of time spent waiting for a bus sadly. Bus fairs sorry cheaper by car. Going home 10 minutes for tram 20 or more waiting for bus to arrive +15 or more minutes for bus to get home.

Snow flake falls.

Walking no diiferance unless it icy. If it's icy add ten minutes on.

Driving 1 to 2 hrs due too idiots that can't drive.

Bus forget it. Bus will give up and you'll have to walk home.

By the way snow flakes falling add greatly to the journey. Although I was being sarcastic any snow falling stops the traffic even if it's not settling.

[cbman]

Takes me 10 minutes each way to get to the work and home... but since everything is in that town I do the trip generally 5 to 6 times a day about 8km each way

[UtwigMU]

It used to be either 35min walk, 30min bus ride (stupid routes through centre and out again another incoming street) or 5min cab ride (cost = about 2 Euros).

I generally rode a cab one way and rode a bus or walked back.

Now I need another job.

I live about 3km from centre of capital so walking and cycling is viable and I'm close to any institutions (libraries, universities, theatres, shops) I want to go.

OT: Do you still have those old trains in Poland?

Here we used to have those boxy Polish trains painted red and white untill a few years ago. They got nicknamed "Gomulke" after Polish communist dictator.

[JohnnyBond]

20-30 minutes one way. I study in the same city as nowhere, but I live there during the scholar year

OT: It's worse. Slovenia got the better ones and we had to stick to the old [or maybe they look so old now ] ones, and as far as I can see they paint yours! And maybe keep them clean! That doesnt happen too often over here. But what could you expect from a monopolist company that has a dept counted in houndrets of thousands of dollars

Their trying to get some new ones, and as always import them, nevermind thet we got some big wagon producing companies... But its not the topic

Being a standard sight:

[M|x]

five minutes walk to school. three if a walk fast :P

[Nowhere]

Yes Utwig, there's still hell lot of them (AFAIK ~1800 were produced in 30 years). Though they look little different from "yours" (the first question I wanted to ask when I saw photo in your post, Utwig, was "did every post communist country build their own version of them?" ). Here usually they look close to this one (hey, at least it's warm inside, uhmm...usually ) or this one, or eventually like this newer one (and this one's quite comfortable and clean inside, contrary to what Johnny says - it's because he, 50% of the time, commutes in the old, slow, dirty ones, while me - only a little above 0% of the time :> ).
But there are also many other and many newer means to travel on railroads here

edit: and about how they're called. Here they're called sometimes...like toilet in common speech (Johnny suggested "john", is he right? ), I guess partly because some of them have plastic seats - ouch, my back! :/

[UtwigMU]

Well, from what says on our railroads site, they're on average 27 years old, they were already made prior to WW2 for city rails.

In Poland they were converted for intercity rails and ours are imported from Poland.

Here they have seats covered with fabric, but I guess the fabric is also 27 years old.



Now, we're getting theese by Siemens.

And theese - Pendolino.

[Nowhere]

The one who made yours railroads site is hallucinating, they are most definetely post WW2 idea . And, luckily, most have also fabric seats...just the ones that doesn't were apparently quite annoing to everyone, judging by nickname of all of them

[Ajax]

1.5-2 hours one way. 4-day work week makes it a little better.