Your daily commute

[realjd]

4.3 miles: about 10 minutes by car, about 20 minutes by bike.

[golden eagle]

About six miles, taking 10-15 minutes. Depending on which route I take, I have to go through either five or six traffic lights. I don't have to take the freeway unless I really want to. I'd only have to go through one light if I did that.

[texaskdog]

4.3 miles: about 10 minutes by car, about 20 minutes by bike.

Almost the same for me.  4.1 miles, usually 10 minutes in the morning, more like 12 in the afternoon, 25 minutes by bike.  Girlfriend and I moved halfway between our jobs.  Loving it!

[agentsteel53]

18.9 miles.  if I beat the traffic, that's 17 minutes.  if I don't, it's as much as an hour.

so I try to get in to work by 6.30am, and then I really try my best to not leave between 2.30 and 7.  generally I try to work 6.30-2.30 but occasionally it ends up 6.30-7.

[Mapmikey]

62 miles each way...

37 miles of I-95
22 miles of DC Beltway

8 stoplights total.

70 minutes in (leaving at 445)
100 minutes out (leaving at 430)

2 hrs in the afternoon is regular occurrence.  Once a month or so I get one 3+ hours.

Mapmikey

[PHLBOS]

Normal:

Walk 1/2 mile to SEPTA Secane train station (Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Line).
Inbound train to Philadelphia (Market East station)
Walk about 1/2 mile from Market East to work (near Independence Hall)

Travel time (including walking) about 45 minutes

When I need to drive to work

From home to I-95/PA 420 interchange
10 traffic lights for roughly 3 miles

I-95 from PA 420 (Exits 9A/B) to Exit 22 (I-676/US 30/Callowhill St.) roughly 13 miles

Depending on which parking facility I use 8 or 12 traffic lights, roughly 1 to 1-1/2 miles

Travel time (without major traffic back-ups) about 30 minutes

Reason for choosing the train over driving despite the longer travel time: Parking costs (ranging from $10-18 per day).

[empirestate]

About 14 miles, just about exactly an hour from door to door. Whole mess o' traffic lights and innumberable subway signals!

[deathtopumpkins]

My normal commute: 1.0 mile, 3 minutes, 0 traffic lights, 2 stop signs.
The beauty of being assigned a field job at a project down the street from your house.

Days I have to drive to the district office (in Arlington, MA) though my commute is 37.9 miles, ~130 minutes, including 18 miles of MA 128 - the most horridly congested road I have ever had the misfortune to use at rush hour.

[realjd]

4.3 miles: about 10 minutes by car, about 20 minutes by bike.

Almost the same for me.  4.1 miles, usually 10 minutes in the morning, more like 12 in the afternoon, 25 minutes by bike.  Girlfriend and I moved halfway between our jobs.  Loving it!

I do have to make a left turn on the way home. I'll lose a minute or two there some times. But yes, I love living close to my job in a location with minimal traffic problems. And I love being an easy bike ride away for much of the winter when we have nice weather. This time of year, not only is it hot and humid, there are very commonly thunderstorms hitting right as I'm leaving work.

[jwolfer]

~35 miles for me... out of my neighborhood.. 5 miles on SR 21( 4 lane divided hwy.. 5 traffic lights)  14 miles on Brannan Field Rd( i think CR 220A but soon to be First Coast Outer Beltway(SR 23) 2 lane county road but parts are SR 23 a super 2 ...5 traffic lights)... i am so looking forward to the completed SR 23 even though it will be tolled.. then about 15 miles on I-10( SR 8)  and 4 miles on I-95( SR 9) ... worst part it the the county road no passing and 45MPH speed limit and as always too safe sally is going 35 MPH and the traffic lights can get huge back ups.  I-10 is almost always stop and go inside the I-295 beltway

it can take 1 hour to get home if i leave at 5PM... if i leave at 6PM its takes 40 minutes

[mightyace]

Interstate routing: ~ 28 miles

2 stop signs NB/ 1 stop sign SB
5 stoplights

4.6 miles Saturn Parkway (TN 396)
15.4 miles I-65
so 20 miles freeway

30-40 minutes off peak, peak time, 60-90 min or no way!

Back way ~ 21 miles
14 miles free run back road

NB
4 stop signs
10 traffic lights

SB
3 stop signs
9 traffic lights

about 35-40 minutes off peak 50-55 min peak

[tchafe1978]

I live in a rural area, so traffic is not a concern. One major plus to living in a small town!

If I take US 151, it's about 6.25 miles, and takes me 6-7 minutes. One stoplight at the turn into work.

If I take Cty XX, it's about 6 miles and again 6-7 minutes, and the one stoplight at the turn into work.

The only things that might slow me down are getting stuck behind a tractor or an Amish buggy, or if Old Farmer Brown is out for a Sunday drive.

[Michael in Philly]

A five-block walk.  :-)
About 12 minutes.
There's a bus that goes nearly door to door when I'm a little late.

[Compulov]

It depends on my mood and whether I need to make any stops on the way into work:

Most mornings, local roads to PA-413 to I-95 to US-1 in Lawrenceville, NJ. Then a few miles on 1 and some local and county roads. The return trip in the evening is the same route in reverse. 7 lights in PA and 6 in NJ. Around 30 miles and 40 minutes (give or take 5 minutes depending on traffic, the lights, and prevailing speeds on the Interstate.

Some days it's US-13 to US-1, then the same local and county roads from there. Around 24 miles and about the same amount of time. 5 lights in PA and 7 in NJ.

I prefer I-95 because traffic tends to run at a more consistent speed (plus it's a much safer highway, anyway, with longer sight lines and wider curves -- even if some of my fellow Pennsylvanians don't seem to think so and slow down every time there's a curve). I am looking forward to the improvements that are forthcoming during the Scudders Falls Bridge work, though. It'd be nice if PennDOT would raise the limit through that area to 65 as well, since I think it's a much safer road at that speed than the Turnpike (and it's way better than the 1 and 13 freeways, which are both 55). At least the PA Troopers seem to enforce it as if it were a 65 zone.

[ghYHZ]

2.7 KM......the mornings a breeze......no traffic. But at 4:30......I could be waiting 5 minutes to get out into traffic on the Trans Canada at an uncontrolled intersection.

........That should all change in a few weeks when the new TCH104 By-pass opens!

[ftballfan]

I only work two days a week, but my commute is quite short.

1.7 miles, about 5 minutes, little traffic, two stop signs, two stoplights

For work, however, we routinely go 50+ miles per day. Yesterday, we went 134 miles (Manistee > Benzonia > Kaleva > Ludington > Manistee) in about 5.5 hours.