Thread: How long does it take you to get to work?

Used to take 30mins each way now with traffic going to is 50mins to an hour, comming home an hour to 1hr20.

Before I retired 6 years ago it would take me 15 minutes to drive to work , these days it takes around 45minits on a good day . On the way there was a set of traffic lights & a round about to go through , the council took out the round about & put in another set of lights that don't sink with the 1st set . You wait for 6 changes of the lights to get through the 1st set if you are lucky . The problem is the vehicles coming out of side street ( industrial estate) drive into the intersection & block it & they can be there for 2 changes of lights. I have asked the council to put a red light camera on the intersection to book these vehicles but they say it is not a black spot so does not need it.

On foot about 35 minutes , about ten if I am foolish enough to cycle , a helmet is useless against a moronic driver , or if I drive about eight minutes. Wife is about the same. Train isn't much of an option as the return fare is for me is more than combined fuel costs. Besides a walk clears the mind and gets the blood flowing. It was a wise choice moving to the inner burbs.

About an easy 13 minutes if I get a good run of green traffic lights which mostly happens. Back in the day pre the traffic lights and roundabouts it was a bit less. Given the amount of multi nationals driving around here now I doubt you would survive the trip if there were not red lights and roundabouts to encourage them to at least ease up. As for "stop" signs, I don't think that word exists in some dialects. In a recent incident one drove past five 80 kph restriction signs at 121 kph and T-Boned a car, killing both occupants, and got five and a half years free accommodation at Her Majesty's B&B.


Cheers, Mick.

2 mins max.
Andrew

14 minutes, unless the wife was late getting ready, in which case I let her drive and she can do it in 10 mins.

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17mins

Depending on site..

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