I asked this question over in NE and got some interesting answers. Figured I'd try it here too.

If you have one, how's your commute? Or, for those not dealing with the daily grind, what do you deal with when going from place to place? What holds you up?

I have a five mile commute to work. Traffic isn't much of an issue. I do pass FOUR donut shops which have drive through windows; those can be a real PIA. People NEED their AM coffee and don't care about much else, especially cutting off other vehicles when entering/exiting.

Rick had to stop for wild turkeys on his ride in this AM.

So what do you dealing with on the roads to work, or other places?

 

My only "commute" is the 7 miles I drive to the hospital I volunteer at on Friday mornings. It's a long string of red lights most of the way. Some times it will take two cycles through a signal to get the green. If I drove it at 10 pm it would take half the time it does at 7:45 am. I'm always late by about 7 minutes, but it doesn't matter.

 

I do about a 20 mile drive with very few hold ups. The biggest problem is getting on I-90. ODOTs poor design and light tioming makes it a slow process with very long back-ups.

 

I was lucky enough when I was driving to work every day (about 7 miles), I had a choice of main roads or back roads. I often took the back roads, and even though it was a mile or so further, I saved myself the aggravation of the left lane cruisers, stop-lights, and general congestion.

 

[QUOTE=jukngene,Mar 18 2010, 07:46 PM]I was lucky enough when I was driving to work every day (about 7 miles), I had a choice of main roads or back roads. I often took the back roads, and even though it was a mile or so further, I saved myself the aggravation of the left lane cruisers, stop-lights, and general congestion.

 

I have a 16 mile commute. I have three choices. The expressway, a divided surface road, or back roads along the Erie canal. Doesn't seem to matter which way I go, it takes about 20-25 minutes. The morning isn't bad, but the trip home isn't as pleasant. The surface road goes by a mall and the traffic sucks on the way home. The 65mph expressway ends in a "T" intersection at a traffic light. Very unnerving to be sitting at a red light with traffic coming up from behind at 70-80mph.

 

On my last job I commuted either 42 or 50 miles each way into northern Virginia for years. I hated it. It sped up my entry into retirememt. life is too short.

 

I am in Los Angeles, so my drive is ok compare to most people. It depends where I am working. I am a general building contractor, so I choose my own hours. I try and not take projects too far away from home because of my little kids. Usually under 10 miles. I drive the nation's oldest fwy, the good old Pasadena Fwy all the time. I live about 1 miles from it. Getting in and out of that thing in traffic with the shortest on-ramp in the world is a challenge and an exercise of the right pedal. I also work at my local high school part time at a woodshop teacher. It takes all of 13 minutes all surface street and really no traffic. Nutty parents dropping off their kids cause a bit of traffic, other then that, pretty normal. start by 7:15 and gone by 11:00am off to run play contractor. It is a year round school and I only have to do it 8 months out of the year. I do it to give some the kids a heads up about this wonderful industry and keep the trade and craftsmanship alive. May be I am nuts too.

Jeff

 

Well, ours is not bad. We both commute via subway to work. Door to door (including walking to the subway and changing trains, for me, and walking and taking one train for the +1) is about 30 minutes. We are very spoiled!

 

Mine is about a 20 mile ride...mostly uphill, so it winter months it tends to be a lot worse up in the mountains as opposed to here in the valley. Leave for work before 5 am so don't see much traffic, in fact many times have driven the entire drive and not seen another vehicle on the road.
Levi