How long to get to work - ONE WAY

[sAsLEX]

around 16 odd minutes to uni, split most of motorway bar the bridge as I find that a bit skinny if I aint running late, its about 3-4 k of walking pace traffic along Lake and Esmonde road normally, if I drove would be over an hour to get to car park 15 mins away from uni!

All the motor way miles tend to give me tire profiles that aint the best.

[Motu]

Takes me about 30 to 45 mins,a bike could take 10mins off that,but it's not worth the hassle of gearing up and down.I've had jobs where I could walk to work,that was the best experiance.Spent years commuting across the city on bikes,these days I take the easy way out.

[marty]

90mins if there is 'average' traffic, 100mins if there's trucks/roadworks. have done it in 75mins at warp factor 69 in the car. any faster than that and i'd have to be on the bike.

[Sparky Bills]

Paraparaumu to Lower Hutt every day-Rain or Shine! :cool2:
Takes about 30-40mins in morning, and 20-30mins in afternoon.
Traffic permitting of course.
Not a bad ride over Piekok Hill EVERYDAY!

[MOTOXXX]

Paraparaumu to Lower Hutt every day-Rain or Shine! :cool2:
Takes about 30-40mins in morning, and 20-30mins in afternoon.
Traffic permitting of course.
Not a bad ride over Piekok Hill EVERYDAY!

i doubt u would be doing lower hutt to pram in 20minutes.
id like to see that billing.

[Sparky Bills]

Should have thought bout what I was saying.
Its faster to come home, Must like leaving work, instead of going.

[Two Smoker]

Well at one of my current jobs i get picked up everyday, so it takes me about 15 seconds to walk down the driveway.....

When Milking..... about 10mins from my house, have done it in 5 Leaving the g/f's house in Bayswater.... 19 minutes in a rush 35 mins doing legal pace.....

Dont usually take the bike, as most of my start and finish times are before and after the rush hour/3 hour period.... Plus i cant afford the tires

[RiderInBlack]

I have not voted because there is not option that I feel covers me. I work for myself as a Farrier (Horse Shoer/Blacksmith) so it depends on where my first horse is. Closest is 10mins. Furtherest is 75mins. Average is about 40mins. Normally I take the old smelly diseal Ute, but I have been know to use "Roxanne" occasionally if I only have to trim (not shoe) the horses (I like the reaction I get when I arrive on the bike, all in black leather, to do their horses ).

[Stinkwheeler]

It depended (past tense as I'm off school YAY!!) on how enthusiatic the RD was. If it fired first time and didn't bog, around 5 minutes. If it decided to mess around/flood/chew a spark plug, upwards of 15.

Ah, the wonders of owning two strokes.

[avgas]

if i walk into uni, about 45-60mins, that happens most days as im trying to rebuild my tibia.
Ride to uni (once in a blue moon), about 5-25mins.
Ride to work (Ellis Co), about 35min
Drive to work, about 45-60min
Ride to work2 (M10, New Lynn), about 15-30min
Drive to work2, about 30min
i genrally dont like breaking 60 round town :spudwhat: nor do i cut between lanes unless i hit impossible traffic (Drags etc) :cool2:

[The Pastor]

When I work on the shore it takes me 10 min to go in my car (only go legal in my car,) on a bike i did it in 2 mins flat but that was at 6.30 am with no traffic and pushing it hard, although im sure i could beat that if i tried.

In the city it takes half and hour in my cage and 10-15 mins on the bike,


If my bike wont start it takes me a while to get home as its hard to push start on a flat, goign to work aint a prob as i live on the top of a hill :whislte:



i should really say "my old bike" not "my bike" being as i sold it i miss it dearly



- can you still buy avgas at the pump? havnt seen it for a long long time, if not where do you get it from?

[StoneChucker]

The majority of people travel by bike, and take around 15 minutes. Thats not bad all things considering. I think an Auckland specific poll, or London even, would show much higher travel times, and I suspect more people going by car (insurance expensive in London, for eg.)

So now, the people on the opposite ends of this spectrum, how would you compare your stress levels upon arriving to work? Say someone who takes near an hour, and someone around 5 or 10 mins. I'm just curious since I'm never "happy" when I get to work, I always feel irritated, and it's only 4 or 5 mins drive. I'm wondering if a drive somewhere in the middle, say 15 or 20 mins is more ideal. That way you've had time to get into it, listen to the radio, pop a few wheelies, and you haven't been driving so long that you've heard the same song repeated on the radio or worn flat spots on your tyres!

Then again, I may just be annoyed by the mere fact it IS work :sneaky2:

[ZorsT]

i used to take the bus to school it took 30-40mins (12-17 by car) but schools over now. Next year i will have the bike :spudbooge: or i'll be able to drive
I find my stress levels are high if i take the bus (man i hate it so much...) and quite good if i get a ride

[Hooks]

might not have to after friday as we might not have a work[/SIZE]

Oh crap mate ... that doesn't too good ... !!! I hope it doesn't happen ....

[jrandom]

I find my stress levels are high if i take the bus (man i hate it so much...)

Really?

I used the bus to get from west to downtown Auckland every weekday for three years. Thought it was pretty good. I got heaps of reading time, listened to my portable CD player, etc... it wasn't until I'd been using the headphones for almost a year, though, that I found out they threw as much noise out as they did in.

I'd been subjecting people within a two-metre radius to Pink Floyd all that time, and nobody ever batted an eyelid. :spudwhat: