How long do you (or would you, if you had to go into work) normally spend commuting?
I’ll start. I don’t have to go to the town centre to get to the office. I normally spend 10 minutes driving, 10 minutes walking. Parking for the day will be around £4.50 (€5.30), and free during the winter months (it’s a beach car park). If I take the bus it’s around 15 minutes, 5 minutes walking, and costs 75p each way (€0.90).
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I live a 15km / 35-40 min bike ride away from the office.
In the Netherlands it is customary for employers to give a 19ct/km compensation for travel expenses. I had 200 euro expenses on my bike last year so I earn around 1000 euro per year on my commute.
Driving takes ~20 minutes, depending on traffic, for 15 kilometres. More like 27 minutes during rush hours. Parking is free, our company has multiple car parks and if they are full, parking along the road is free, too.
I often take my bicycle to work, commute is shorter (10km) and I pass through a nice park and through vineyards. Need 25 minutes plus the time to shower at work. Bike stands are free, but I take my bike with me into the office, as bikes get stolen every now and then.
Commuting by bus isn’t an option, because it would take around 60-70 minutes.
Takes me 10-15 minutes by bike.
20 min by bike, about 150 kcal 😁.
My commute is about 20 km in one direction, almost all of it on the ringroad. Costs me 15-20 minutes and probably a few euros in petrol, some cents in insurance and tax and so on. Parking for me is free at the office.
Well I mean, when I’m *not* forced to work from home, my commute is about an hour each way. Walking to the train station takes about 10-15 minutes, then the train takes about 25 minutes (assuming there aren’t delays on the U, which often there are) and then it’s another 15 minute walk to my office. A monthly train pass costs €75 and 40% of that gets reimbursed by my employer, so I only pay about €40 out of pocket. That €40 a month gives me access to literally the entire Paris commuter belt, if I wanted to commute to London from the Home Counties I would be paying that much *a week* at best. Having said that, a 75p bus ticket is also quite cheap, I assumed Jersey would be really expensive.
I actually quite like my commute, I always have a seat on the train and the scenery is really nice.
I go to the office by train. its 15min walk to the station and 60min on the train with one changeover. if I miss the train I have to take the S-Bahn (city train) for the whole way which takes again 15min to the station an then 75min on the S-Bahn. by car it would be 40km that would take anywhere from 45min to 2 hours, depending on traffic.
edit: forgot the price. i have a ticket for the whole year for Berlin and the outskirts which comes to 978,- Euros, so 81,50 per month. that ist tax deductable.
I bike to the uni in under 5 minutes and to the school I substitute at sometimes in about 10 minutes. Bicycle parking is free obviously. If I had to commute to the city center, it would take about 20-30 minutes by bike and by bus. One bus ride costs about 2€.
I work from home 95% of the time, but if I don’t, I have a ~45 minute commute one way, using the S-Bahn (overground city train) and U-Bahn (underground city train). I pay 64€ per month, which given I don’t use it much since corona probably is a bit much.
22 km each way, by car in about 25-30 minutes. Bus would take nearly two hours.
During the last years, it was about 110 km either way every day and of course not sustainable (although compensated by a 19 ct/km tax bonus). My boss was very much against Home Office, and although I loved my job, I finally decided to switch to something boring but local. It was not an easy transition, and I’m telling the story to alert people to the fact that, depending on where people live, it may not always be trivial for them to switch jobs and reduce their commutes.
Here in northern Germany, there is a big inequality in the distribution of jobs. Almost everything happens in the big cities, Hamburg, Kiel and Rostock, with almost no jobs available in the countryside. This means that many people commute extremely long distances, and there is no political push to change this structural inequality, even in the face of rising energy costs and environmental concerns
Now, it’s 8 km by car or 12 by bike, so cost is down to less than €4 a day.
I travel by train, and a small part by buss. It’s a total of about 2 hours a day, A little less if I can get on the speedier trains. This costs me 1199 SEK (115 €) a month.
Since the pandemic started almost 2 years ago, I’ve been to the office less than 10 times in total.
But before that: 30km from my small town to a Munich suburb. I have 5 options:
-By car that’s somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes, depending on traffic.
-Half of the way by car, the other half by suburban train. Contrary to what you might think, the travel time is more predictable (the train is the one that connects Munich to the airport and it’s almost always on time) at 50 minutes. The train ride costs 1.30EUR one way. The paradoxical thing is that the ride costs less if you buy a single ticket every day than with a monthly ticket.
-Full public transport: on foot to the train station, then by bus to the airport and by train to the office. This easily takes more than an hour and is only an option when I have neither car or bike.
-Bike + Train: 40 minutes to the commuter train station, then 11 minutes by train. 1,30 EUR. That way I get some exercise, so it’s my go to option. Luckily for my coworkers there’s showers at the office
-Full bike ride: that’s at least 90 minutes one way and in the end I’m totally exhausted. Im too old for that shit.
12km by car (electric). It’s 400m downhill and 100m uphill from home to work, so way too hard for me by bike. Bus would take well over 1hr, but by car it’s 15mn. To avoid traffic, I start early and leave early.
18 km give or take by car, depending on the route (shorter cutting through city center). With zero traffic, it takes less than 20 min. With recent traffic, about 20/25 minutes. With pre-pandemic traffic, between 35 minutes/1 hour.
Cost is 30 EUR monthly for the parking plus 3/4 EUR per day for petrol (not considering taxes and insurance since i would pay it anyway). I also get about 40 EUR in transportation reimbursement on the payslip.
On the other hand, public transport would be completely free. But it would take almost 1bhour with no traffic, change a bus/tram and wouldn’t be possible to stop for big grocery shopping on the way back.
I work in the same town I work so it’s about 5km and 4 minute drive.
It’s a 45min walk, so a bit over 2 miles?
It actually works out as almost the same time by bus (the trip involves two different routes that don’t sync up all that well) so I usually only bother with that if I’m feeling lazy.
About an hour on the train or 1.5 hours with the bicycle. I can’t afford a car, but it would normally slash the commute time in half. Luckily, I work in IT and don’t normally need to appear at the office (even before corona), so I don’t waste time on commute.
20-25 minutes by tram and metro. Costs 1€ a day, a yearly ticket for all of Vienna is 365€.
My bus ticket is paid by my company and it takes me around 25 minutes to get from door to door.
30 min total, 15 min walking and 15 min bus ride during the winter. During the summer I ride my bike, which takes around 20 minutes.
It’s a 20 minute train ride. I could go by car, but finding a parkingspace is just near impossible where I live, so going by train is usually faster. It’s a 5 minute walk from my job to the trainstation, and a 5 minute walk from my home to the other trainstation.
About 20 minutes driving/16/17 miles (26/27km) each way, about £6 (€7) a day in petrol, no parking costs.
Since the pandemic its like 5m from my bed to my computer. But when I was still working in the office I was cca 11km from work and it took me around 20min to go there with my car and around 1h and 10min with a bus.
About 1,5 h to 2 h every day.
It’s fine. I enjoy having a cup of coffee in the car before work, and it’s nice when it’s cold outside to get warm.
Downside is if there are accidents or construction on the road.
Some days it’s either 15 minutes walk or bus ride for cca the same time including walking to the bus stop for 20 CZK (0,8 EUR) or less with the month/year pass when I feel lazy or want to take groceries. Other days it’s the journey from my bed to my desk.
11,5km both ways, 15-20 mins, from suburb to Vilnius centre, no traffic cause i get to work at 6.30 or 8.30.
Full tank 60l costs about 82€. Enough for full month. To me it is “free”, the company pays.
Up to 10 minutes and it costs literally nothing. After I go out, I go on foot around 700 meters and I’m already at work. Couldn’t be better than this.
But when I was a university student in Warsaw I had to go on foot 10 minutes for a tram, and then after 40-50 minutes (depending on the traffic) I was on the campus. However, relying on public transportation was sometimes hell, because if a tram stopped going you had to go on foot and look for another means of transportation and that wasn’t always easy. It happened to me a couple of times and because of that I was late to classes.
I live about 8 km away from work. It takes me roughly 45 minutes in morning traffic, perhaps 35-40 if I travel off-peak.
Regardless, I usually budget an hour. (I have to do this weird L-shaped commute and transfer downtown since there’s no straight line between my two points.)
I pay €49/month for a monthly pass on local transport (STIB) – metro, tram and bus. 1 ride is €2.10 – so I need to ride it about 24 times in a month to get my money’s worth.
My employer reimburses a certain amount per month as part of my standard salary – 80% I think it is?
20 minutes (2.5 km).
I often work from home, but a few times a month I do go to the office. My office and my home are located in a way that they are both close to the city centre, in a similar, but not really the same direction, so while they are not far apart, the connection takes about the same weather you go to the city centre and change buses there, walk a little to the somewhat direct bus or just walk/bike the whole way. Actually bike is fastest by far, as that would not take me 20 minutes in normal circumstances.
I hold the membership for city-wide electric bike network (30€ a year) and the monthly bus pass costs me 7.70€. Sometimes I don’t have the monthly pass and then a hourly ticket is 0.50€ (the bus prices are discount ones, the full price is almost double).
I drive ~50km to work every morning and the same back every evening. It takes me (depending on traffic) between 35 and 45 minutes and I need to go to the petrol station at least once a week.
With the curent gas prizes it’s costing me between ~60-80 € a week. This doesn’t include repair costs, but those are luckily pretty rare.
My alternatives are moving which I don’t really wanna do right now or taking public transport which has not so good connections, would take almost 3 times longer and doesn’t really have good timing.
Around 50-55m. I have to take a bus then two trains and 10m walking. I own a car but can’t go to work with it because parking is too expensive in La Défense and there’s too much traffic in the morning.
My commute changed from 65km to 30km one way and it takes me roughly 18 minutes with my car. I currently have a diesel and when I drive this fast I’m close to 8.5l/100km. Diesel is around 1.50€/l that’s 3.85€ one way. I get a tiny bit back so it something like 3.50€ one way or 7€ a day for 3 days a week so 84€ per month . The rest I have home office.
I’m thinking about getting an EV because I would be able to charge for free at my office.
From the money I spent on my car which I own per month overall I could lease a relatively nice one.
It’s a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute bike ride. I bought the bike for £170 over a year ago, and since then spent like £15 on maintenance (oil, spare brakes, etc). It’s a small town and I live close to the office even by local standards.
When I lived in Bucharest it was about 40 minutes (15 minutes walk to metro stop, 15 mins on the metro, and 10 minutes more walking).
About 1.30 euro per day. Diesel car, 20km one way, 5 days a week, 5.6L/100km @ 1.65 €/L and with a travel allowance from my employer of 2.40 euro per day.
I dont have a car since I dont need a one and when I do I rent a car. By car it is 6km, public transport 33mins (round trip line). Last year local municipality increased prices of tickets but decreased price of yearly ticket (nobody was buying tickets cause of lockdown) to 199 EUR.
20min by bike, or 40 minutes of tramway if I’m feeling really lazy.
Maybe living in the center of a city is more expensive, but you also save money by not having a car (gas, insurance, parking, etc)
I drive 24 km every day to work and back. With current gas prices, it costs me 4,67 € every day. I make 66 € per day after tax. It could be cheaper (4,08 €) if I drove more slowly and pumped gas at the cheapest place but to me, that difference is not worth it.
I work from home now but if I didn’t it would be a 20 minute walk
I have two alternatives, go by car or by bus.
With car the price of gas for 1 day (trip to office and back home) would be somewhere around 2 euro, maybe 2.25. Total time is about 20 minutes drive + 10 minutes walk from the parking lot to the office. So total commute time per day is approximate 1 hour.
With bus the price for one day is somewhere around 1.4 euro. And as for the time it takes 10 minutes to walk to bus stop, then the bus takes about 30 minutes to reach city terminal and then I need to take a tram, circa 10 minutes and finally 5 minutes walk from tram stop to the office and the same when I go back home. So total commute per day is approximately 2 hours.
I take the car all the time as the little extra price is worth the comfort. Not only the actual physical comfort in the car vs overcrowded bus, but it is also much easier to do grocery shopping while in city (taking groceries by bus is nightmare) and if needed I can stay longer in the office without it affecting my commute back home – if I stay 15 minutes later I miss the first bus home and need to wait for the next one for an extra hour.
It takes around 15 minutes by car(I pay 10 € per week to my colleague who is driving). By bus it’s around 25 minutes(15 € per week).
I live in the Uni campus so from my house to my department is about 3 mins by bike.
I live 50km from my workplace. It takes me about 45 minutes to complete a one-way trip by. car. I have no idea of the cost: my car uses 6.6 liters of diesel fuel every 100km, so I guess it is about €9.50 of fuel per day. Then I should factor in insurance, car tax, maintenance and depreciation.
Changed jobs few months ago – now my commute is about 16-22 km’s one way. I use my own car to commute and usually it takes fifteen to twenty minutes.
Costs are some euros to gas, insurance, taxes etc. Parking is free and I’ve been supplied with municipal parking permit that allows me to use municipal, restricted parking lots.
I travel ~30kms one way and it takes me ~20 mins. I have a company car so it costs me nothing, they’re still paying me additional 80 eur/mo for public transport costs, it seems like they forgot that they gave me a car.
My shop is attached to my home so that would be 0 and 0.