How Far Do You Go?

[Pappy]

Average 25 miles each way. 1/2 hour to 45 min. each way depending on traffic, if there are no accidents/stalls.

[Jim Boyd]

I drive 47 miles to work and it takes about an hour. Coming home is always different depending where my last stop is. Anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 1/2 hours. Orkins truck, Orkins gas. My personal truck has only been filled up twice since last November and still has 1/2 tank of gas now

[jziegler]

28 miles each way, about 40 minutes.

But, I probably have one of the more unusual commutes in the north east, at least. 8 miles on pretty rural 2 lane highway. 1/2 mile of 2 lane interstate. 2.5 or so miles of 8 lane toll bridge (2 4 lane suspension bridges). A couple miles of 4-6 lane interstate. 10 miles of 8+ lane interstate (the DE turnpike) then 4 lane arterial to work. I drive from the least populous part of NJ to one of the highest density parts of DE.

Traffic is only bumper to bumper if there's a accident or lots of lanes closed for construction.

Jim

[TB Roye]

In Califronia long commutes are not that uncommon. People who work in the Silcone Valley or Bay Area and live in the Central or Sacramento Valley can have 200 mile commutes on a daily basis and a due to traffic a 4 hour drive is not that uncommon either especially on Friday afternoon. My worst was 75 miles one way for 2 years. LA is a whold different story. On the East Coast Mass Transit is common not so on the West Coast all though it is getting better.

Tom

[jlm]

I spent four months doing a 75-mile (each way, about 2 hours in traffic) commute, and it almost killed me. My commute now is 25 miles, but it's a 35-minute train ride, so it's much less intolerable.

The original story doesn't seem believable, though - Google says Mariposa and San Jose are only 160 miles apart, not 372. And, as others have pointed out, a 744 mile round trip is a minimum of 12 hours driving time per day, so unless this guy is only working part-time, he's not sleeping.

[cabinetman]

The original story doesn't seem believable, though - Google says Mariposa and San Jose are only 160 miles apart, not 372. And, as others have pointed out, a 744 mile round trip is a minimum of 12 hours driving time per day, so unless this guy is only working part-time, he's not sleeping.

You're right, it's a round trip. Here is the correct story. It's still a long trip.

[Mr__Bill]

shortest, 2 blocks, longest about 35 min.
Now I knew a man who lived in CT and worked in OK. The company plane took him to work several days a week and then home again. Now that is a perk!
Had a friend who lived in Northern Minnesota in the summer and flew as a pilot out of Pittsburgh, Penn.

[TB Roye]

Mariposa is about 160 miles to the Bay Area and Silcone Valley. There are a lot of people who live in the Sierra Foothills who comuter to the Bay Area. A lot only comute 2 or 3 days a week and work at home the others. It is called Super Comuting. The guy still has a 6 hr round trip comute. Also many people Van Pool on these comutes HP and Intel fly employees between the Sacramento area and the Silcone Valley. Housing is quaity of life is the big reason for the long comutes.

Tom

[Black wallnut]

I have a friend that is an airline pilot with his job based out of Chicago; he lives in Ellensburg, WA! So he drives to Yakima, 40ish miles and flies free to work from there. I've read of a Boing employee (works at a Seattle area Boeing) that lives in central Montana and commutes on a weekly basis. Driving home for the weekends.

[billwmeyer]

Normally I drive about 19 miles all on two lane state highways. Currently though, due to read construction, I drive about 21 miles, with 5 of those miles on gravel roads. It takes me about 30 to 35 minutes to get to work, if I don't get behind a farm truck on the gravel roads, or there is no train on the track that I have to cross three times.

Bill