just interested really as i am curretly considering a 2 hour drive there and back to liecstershire.

it will mean a very long day for me and im not sure im willing to do it. the job is absolutley perfect for me in every other aspect, its just the commute.

5 minutes by car..
10 minutes by bus..

and 20 mins by foot :)

i live 3 mile away fom where i work and it takes me about 20 minutes ( i have to come down eccie road then past the botanical gardens)

10-15 minutes by bus (plus 10 minutes waiting time :rant: )

5 minutes if I get a lift :P

30 minutes walk

That's to my part time job.

To college it's a 10 minute walk and a two minute car journey.

As a contractor I recently did the Leeds commute each day for about 4 years.

I eventually took to using the Coach rather than driving because it was less stressful and less tiring. That was about 1hr 115 mins each way, if you added my trip down to the Coach Station.

The drive was about 50 minutes. The thing to bear in mind about teh drive is not just the time - it's driving it in Januray and February when it's snowing or icey.

I currently either walk to work (40 minutes) or take the bus (20 minutes) and I'm a much happier bunny.

Joe

9 mins by bicycle.

Heh... about 10 seconds... Working from home probably doesn't count though I imagine ;)

Originally posted by Martin_s
Heh... about 10 seconds... Working from home probably doesn't count though I imagine ;)

Well this morning to get to do my college work at home it was about 5 seconds to roll out of bed to my computer :P

7 minutes by car (not rush hour)

30 minutes by car (rush hour)

40-50 minutes by bus (which I can conveniently catch either too far before or after rush hour, and get to change buses too. Hmmm.)

The people I know who have long commutes, I'm sorry to say, are either really suffering with it, or (most) have left that job in favour of something less grand but with which they can also have a life.

Good luck

Cosy

2 hrs each way.
I stay over 2 nights a week at the companies expense and they pay mileage for the travel.
No way I could do it everyday and the cost would be crippling.

20mins walking

15mins bicycle (theres a hill)

est 30mins by car. inc parking, and sitting in the traffic jam (never tried)

upto 60 mins by bus (two busses)

10 sec teleporter, but the electric bill is horrific.

8 minute walk.
3 minutes in car.
0 minutes on Bus(dont catch them)

If I'm on the bus can be anything from 30 minutes to 60 minutes, depending on whether I go into town or not and traffic.

Walking is about 45 to 50 minutes.

I live on the most wonderful bus routes in the world! The number 20.

It means i can take between 15min to 1-30 hours to get to work. This is dependant on how the bus driver feels on that perticular morning.

Bearing in mind the bus should be every 10 minutes and it's a 15 min trip!

Originally posted by Cyclone
2 hrs each way.
I stay over 2 nights a week at the companies expense and they pay mileage for the travel.
No way I could do it everyday and the cost would be crippling.

how do you find it the days you dont stay over? im just a bit worried i wont have much of a life left by getting up at six and getting home anytime after 7 at night.

Hillsborough ~ Wybourn 25mins by tram followed by a 10min stroll.
Gotta be the easiest journey to work I've ever had, I sit there and let some other poor soul get stressed at the traffic while I read my paper.

Fantastic!!!!!

Originally posted by unners
8 minute walk.
3 minutes in car.
0 minutes on Bus(dont catch them)

...I hope that 3 minutes was timed in a test run...shame on you if you do drive to work over that distance :wink:

About 17 hours, including a night in a hotel. Only about 11 hours to return. Think yourselves lucky! each leg only done once a fortnight though

Originally posted by Freddy
...I hope that 3 minutes was timed in a test run...shame on you if you do drive to work over that distance :wink:

Depending on the Traffic at the one roundabout and the one junction I pass,I suppose you could say 3min and 10 secs!

Originally posted by costessey
About 17 hours, including a night in a hotel. Only about 11 hours to return. Think yourselves lucky! each leg only done once a fortnight though

Are you Cabin Crew?

Its all dependant on the traffic..or which way i decide to go..
It averages around 35 min....Thank god for Flexi-time !!!

as from the new year i shall be taking the bus though- im sick of the traffic in sheffield :D

Hmm....

Bus trip on the 89: 35 mins
Bus trip on "any bus that goes up Loampit Vale": 5 mins.

Total time: 40 mins.

So, the earliest I ever have to leave my house is around 10 as the earliest start I have is 1100h. I like to get there in plenty of time; the bus is annoying as stop, start, stop start, all of the time. I normally buy a newspaper for the trip!

Alex

Originally posted by cruella
Thank god for Flexi-time !!!

Amen to that :clap:

Too long :rant:

Depending on the traffic, but if all is ok it takes me an hour on average.

Originally posted by HarrietStar
how do you find it the days you dont stay over? im just a bit worried i wont have much of a life left by getting up at six and getting home anytime after 7 at night.

i arrange my stays so that i only travel 1 leg on a particular day.

I do have to make sure i'm in bed pretty early during the week as i get up at 6 and leave at 6:20, so bed time is 22:00.
I find the drive quite tiring, especially at this time of year as it's dark and the conditions can be bad.
On the days i'm travelling home i leave at 4 (friday at 1 or 2) so i'm home for 6. It's still a bit like, get home, eat, tidy, go to bed. Not much time to fit anything else in.

When i've gone on the train i find it much less tiring (you can doze all the way), but it means arriving later and getting home later. And removes all flexibility from the journey.

"On the days i'm travelling home i leave at 4 (friday at 1 or 2) so i'm home for 6. It's still a bit like, get home, eat, tidy, go to bed. Not much time to fit anything else in"

ah.. i was hoping you were going to say "yeah, i get home at six and i have loads of time to do whatever i want" lol

1 hour 25 minutes. I commute from Sheffield to Hull most weekdays, although I try to get a B&B once a week. Staying over on a wednesday makes a huge difference. If I don't then I'm more tired come Thursday.

I generally set off at 7:15 and get home at about 6, so It doesn't take up all of the day.

The main issues I have are:

1. The danger of being on the roads for so long.

2. The cost. It's about £55 per week for the diesel, plus the depreciation of my car.

3. It does prove to be tiring, and I can't get a lot done at home during the week, although the route I take(M18/M62) is nice straight open road with little traffic, so it's not as tiring as most 1.5 hour drives.

I get through it by reminding myself that It's only a temporary thing, and I'm working on finding another job.

walk i dont want to think about
bus about 1 hour as two buses (if both buses come stright away about 35 40 minutes)
car about 10 15 minutes
basically from manor park to northen general

On average about an hour each way.

I commute from North of Sheffield to Chesterfield every day.

10 minutes by car. I'm very lucky. Until recently I was travelling 25 miles each way, which took 2 hours out of my day.

Anywhere from 2 minutes to six hours.

12 mins to work
14 mins home (Manor lane or Duke St)

On the push-iron!:)

I do a round trip of 34 miles. it takes me 25mins in the morning when I leave the house at 7:00am i get to school at 7:25. It takes longer in the afternoon when I leave about 4:50pm as i hit the traffic back in sheffield so it can take 40mins +.

I hate travelling, I only go to work so early as I cannot bear to sit in traffic on the parkway in the morning later on, instead of wasting my life sat in a traffic jam i might as well waste it doing some lesson planning, at least that it kind of useful ( I hope!!)

Wish i could start earlier and leave earlier though it would not fit into the school day!

How do people with flexi-time get on? Are the bosses ok with you starting / leaving work to avoid the rush hour or are you still expected to brave the traffic on the majority of days?

college - 1 hour (2busses)
(Parson Cross college)

work - 1 hour (1bus)
(Milton House in town)

am at uni at the mo and that takes 10-20 mins (depending on traffic) by car, tho thats never a good idea as there is no parking so i rarely bother. By bus i have to give myself an hour, just in case the bus doesn't turn up or the traffic goes mad! Last year i worked in Wakefield and that was a 20 mile commute that took 25 mins in the school holidays and up to an hour in term time (extra traffic seemed to be purely posh parents taking posh kids to posh schools!!!):suspect:
Much prefer less travelling, less wear and tear on car, less petrol to pay for, less hassle on the roads and generally less tired at the end of a hard day :D

I'm a network engineer based from home. So can be 10 seconds (upstairs office) or anywhere in the country. I don't mind commuting as I get paid whenever I'm driving. This makes a big difference. Also, when I'm out on the road it's mostly to different sites in different places so the journey isn't repetitive. I don't think I could handle the same journey 10 times per week. When you start recognising the same cars in the same queues every day it's time for a change.

Originally posted by steelcitybab
work - 1 hour (1bus)
(Milton House in town)

It takes you an hour from our lovely (:P ) Stannington to town!?!?!

Usually takes me about 30-40 minutes.

I assume that's rush hour traffic or you're including the time it takes to wait for a bus.

to work, 35 mins if the 37 is running. Getting home, 30 minutes (except the other day - took 30 minutes to get from t'interchange to the source - will catch it from sainsburys if i have to at that time again)

or on a sunday, about 45 mins - 53 into town and train to meadowhall.

college... going home, including waiting is about an hour. Getting there - i usually set off at 5 to 8 in the morning and it takes an hour to get through the commute. Walk is about 2 hours (and very occasionally, i have walked it)

1 hour from rotherham to sheffield thanks to all you IDIOTS on the parkway blocking it for me.

Originally posted by kittykat
1 hour from rotherham to sheffield thanks to all you IDIOTS on the parkway blocking it for me.

My workplace back's directly on to the Parkway and i laugh my head off every morning watching it at a standstill.

Originally posted by ianmitchell
It takes you an hour from our lovely (:P ) Stannington to town!?!?!

Usually takes me about 30-40 minutes.

I assume that's rush hour traffic or you're including the time it takes to wait for a bus.

yes, cos i usually work nevenings so start about 5.30 or 6. so im in prime time traffic :mad:

half my dat is usually bus journeys!

but yes, the bus recently has been 10minutes late :rant:

Well, I commute to Derby by public transport each day from Bradway.

In the morning I walk down to Dore station and get a train to Sheffield and another one to Derby. Total journey, including walking time is 1 hour 15 minutes. (including the 17 minutes spent at Sheffield station between trains when I get breakfast and newspaper)

In the evening there is no train to Dore, so I have to get a bus from Sheffield Centre to Bradway which usually gets stuck in a traffic jam on Abbeydale Road (alongside the empty railway - god damn it - why can't we have some trains to Dore) and my total journey time home (if bus and train is on time) is 1 hour 45 minutes.

Just as an interesting comparison if I had a car I could drive to Chesterfield station then get the train from there to Derby and have a total journey time of less than 1 hour (20 minutes drive to Chesterfield station down the by pass if not too much traffic, then 20 minutes on the train).

18 mile drive into Birmingham - about 40 minutes going early - and then about 8 minutes walk from the car park.

To get a bit closer to the original post - what travelling time per day would you deem excessive?

I think if Iwas travelling any more than an hour each way regularly I would consider getting a closer job.

Ive never had a job that I couldnt walk to.

At the minute, Im 30 mins walking...about 10/15 on the bus depending on traffic

It's what you get used to. I find an hour each way acceptable having always done that because we choose to live in the sticks. Most of the driving is on auto pilot because the route is familiar. It's all about choice - the work life balance for me for now.

I worked in London and lived in Herts, it took me an hour and a half both ways so I would get home at 7 - 7.30.

At first I found it knackering but then I started planning things in the evening so I would have to go out.

Swimming / a drink after work with colleagues / late night shopping all help to convince yourself that you have a life outside of the car!

Why not try it for a couple of months - you'll never know otherwise - it's not forever and if the job makes you happy then you'll cope with the travel :-)

Good luck with your decision.

PS - I now walk to and from work at 45mins a go. I need the time to distance me from work and get me in the mood for going out or relaxing etc!

Originally posted by Yodameister
I think if Iwas travelling any more than an hour each way regularly I would consider getting a closer job.

If there was the work in Sheffield maybe I would!

I share your anxieties, it takes me up to 40 mins on a route that would only take about 15 mins. Like yourself I enjoy my job but the commuting is a real pain

I live down in Meersbrook and work up in Woodseats, so it's pretty much lame to get to work:

to work:
walk: 30 minutes
bus: ~15 minutes wait + 15 minutes travel.
car: 10 minutes.

from work:
walk: 20 minutes
bus: ~30 minutes wait + 5 minutes travel.
car: 3 minutes.

Preety much lame bus really :rolleyes: :rant:

Bearing in mind the buses are getting bad and the roads are getting more and more clogged (which is actually part of the reason the buses are getting bad), maybe it is time for the sleeping giant that is Sheffield's rail network should be awoken, although of course that does mean our useless Transport Executive actually doing something...

With some upgrading of infrastructure including extra bits of track as well as upgrading of some existing track, new platforms and additional rolling stock, look at what we could have:

Sheffield-Dore : half hourly service - one train an hour continuing o Manchester via Hope Valley, the other terminating at Dore (an extra bit of track and 2nd platform required)

Sheffield-Meadowhall-Chapeltown : All ready 2 trains per hour, there must be track capacity for a third stopping train to make a service every 20 minutes (as well as the new fast Leeds train).

Deepcar-Wadsley Bridge-Wicker-Darnall-Woodhouse-Kiveton
Upgrade the deepcar branch for passenger traffic and re-open the stations, and run an hourly train from Deepcar which would stop at a new city centre station by the wicker arches. The train would continue onto the main line at Nunnery and continue to Worksop calling at Darnall and Woodhouse.

Sheffield-Darnall-Woodhouse-Kiveton-Lincoln
The existing hourly service would be complemented by the above train from Deepcar, meaning trains calling at Darnall, Woodhouse and Kiveton every 30 minutes.

Sheffield-Don valley-Tinsley-Rotherham
If the freight line that runs from Woodbourn junction to Rotherham Central was upgraded to carry passenger trains at a reasonable speed, you could have an hourly train from Sheffield to Rotherham Central calling at the same places as the tram - Arena/Stadium, Valley Centertainment, Carbrook and Tinsley.

Then of course there is the line that runs from Sheffield to Chesterfield via Woodhouse and Beighton, and also the potential of Dronfield station if it had a regular train service...

Takes me about 40 minutes on the tram. Going to work I usually get a seat but coming home involves spending nearly the whole journey jammed against someone's armpit. Even when I do get to sit down, if I've forgot my book, I have to spend the journey trying to avoid uncomfortable eye contact with the person sat directly opposite (or trying to avoid the stares of hated from folks still standing).

Really hope to someday get a job where I can walk to work.

By bus: ave 35-40 mins both ways
By push bike: ave 30 mins to work, 50 mins from work (i live at the top of a hill)
Walking, which I do in the summer ave 60 mins to work, 90 mins from work.

Takes me 15 mins to walk to work in the morning, but often over five hours to walk home! :suspect:

Damn those public drinking establishments! grrrr:rant: :hihi:

Takes me about 50 mins into work, and about an hour home. The odd thing is if I stay at work an extra hour (leave at 6 instead of 5), I can be home in 20 mins.

Has the congestion got worse over the last few weeks? I'm still leaving home at the same time in a morning, but don't have time to go to the paper shop when I get to work any more. :confused:

::work::

Walking: 15mins
Driving: 5mins
Bus then walk: 10 mins

::college::

Walking: never tried it- about an hour!
Driving: 30mins (including stop at shop drop off and pick up)
Public Buses: 1hr sometimes 2hrs
Private coaches: 35 mins (15min walk too stop 15 min journey 5 min walk from stop)

These days I tend to get the bus in in the morning- at about 730 when there is very little traffic and people getting on buses.

At the end of work I'll walk home because
1) I know in my mind how long it will take (50 minutes), whereas bus can take anywhere from 25mins to 1hour - so there is nothing to get stressed about
2) When I get home I have totally got the days work out of my system and am ready for relaxing/going out
3) Its 3 miles, half a mile of which is up a killer of a hill (Jenkin Road), so it does me good.

I used to work in Worksop, which took about 45 minutes each way. Now I work on the parkway. It takes me 10 minutes in the morning, and anywhere from half an hour to 45 minutes to get back. The traffic into Sheffield at rush hour is just mindblowingly awful.

forty mins to barnsley, much better than going to leeds every morning - love my new job

On a good day, 1 minute driving.
On a bad day, 1 minute 30 seconds :bigsmile:

by car: 15-20 mins
by tram: 30 mins including
walking: 1 hour 20 (done it a few times)

It used to take me 50 minutes each way driving and it never really bothered me because it was free flowing traffic. It's much more stressfull in congestion. You need to think about the miles you are putting on your car though.

I know plenty of people who travel more than 1 hour each way. You can always get some audio books or something to listen to in your car. Maybe learn another language.