Travelling to work

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1287251]

Comments

[gramarye1971]

For me, it's a mix. I either take the bus or carpool to the nearest Metro station, ride the train in to a central point and change to another train, and then get off the second train and either walk or take a shuttle van to the office. Door-to-door time can range from an hour (on a really good day where I make all my connections and everything's on time) to two-and-a-half hours (when there's a problem somewhere on the way over and everything backs up).

I have two alternate routes in case something really goes seriously wrong, but those push my commute time to almost three hours one-way.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I walk to the station, train to London and bus to Holborn. But if there is a transport SNAFU that I am aware of before leaving home, sometimes I walk to another station and Underground from there. Door to door time is usually about an hour each way, though can be as little as 50 minutes with perfect timing (rare) or up to an hour and twent, twenty-five minutes if London Midland has messed up or they've dug up Southampton Row again.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I travel by car. If I could walk or take the bus I would - more reading time!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I would love to take mass transport instead, but, being American, I don't have that option... I *hate* driving (well, commuting).

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Depending where it was, you might be helped over that shock by just how far you could get how quickly, though ;) (This applies to public transport some of the time, too).

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Cycle to the station, get a train, get on the Underground and walk from the nearest tube station to the office.

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

Does reaching out of bed and picking up my laptop count?

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

My kinda job :)

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I had really good intentions to cycle, but I just don't have the energy for it. Maybe next year...

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I am very disappointed that no-one's selected "something else that I will put in a comment." I was really hoping for tales of yak or llama, or even the humble donkey.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I had thought about leaving "ferry" out, just so king_pellinor could have that as an "other".

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I put car, but it is as a passenger - the driver and car go on somewhere else in the morning and come back and get me in the afternoon.

[sally_maria]

I walk in in the morning - about 25 mins - then get the bus half way back in the afternoon. The only bus that goes past our house is subsidised for pensioners to do their shopping, so it doesn't run before 10am and after 4.15pm. :-(

[firin.livejournal.com]

If I could get to work for 7:05am, or return from work at 21.30, using the bus without taking 2 hours to do it and waiting around in the dark on my own, I would! I really don't use the car much for anything else.

I walk to college and to anything within a half hour's walking time, including shopping and carrying groceries back to the house. When Toryin and I go into the centre for boardgaming on a Sunday, we take the bus because it makes more sense than trying to park.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I normally walk down to the kitchen, make coffee, then walk upstairs to my work room. On a good day, I don't even have to go outside the door, much less try conclusions with the traffic or take out a second mortgage for the tain.

I do travel by car to visit clients - but that happens comfortably infrequently - and normally involves a long journey on major roads, arranged to avoid the rush hour.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

After two edits, there's still a typo in there ;-)

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I gave up. LJ kept spitting out the edit.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

What he said. My study is a 6 foot stagger from my bedroom 8-)

[meglorien.livejournal.com]

foradan always walks to uni, and so do I when that's where I'm headed. To teach it's too far to walk, so it's a half and half thing.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be the one to tick your 'motorbike' box. Unfortunately, current routines call for me to take Katy in to her school and she isn't big enough to ride pillion. Although I could take her by public transport or (in theory) by bicycle, time is tight enough in the mornings as it is!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It went in just for you, too ... ;-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

If you're going to divide 'train' into three separate categories, I think you should have a separate 'sports car' category!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I ticked walk, car, train and 'I do not go out to work', which probably seems to not make much sense, but that's because my work/college activity is diverse, and each is true of parts of it. I have been known to use all but Bicycle, Motorbike & Ferry in the course of work or study at some point or another.