Hello Community,
My commute to work is around 1hr 10mins by public transport (Bus and Train), which I think is kind of okish.
My commute would be 55mins if I go by car, park at a station and catch train to work.
Just wanted to find out how much you all spend in commute to work.
I think you need more categories, for me it's about 5 minutes. 6 minutes if there is holiday traffic.
45-50 mins most days. Drive around 65km from home to work though.
I'm FIFO but we live in Perth, My Mrs takes the train to the CBD and spends just under 30min commuting
1.15 door to door but 1 hour of that is on an inter urban train, comfortable seating and able to do study, research, work or sleep (netflix).
Purposely live further out for the lifestyle so understand that i have to commute. If you use the time well (and have a good service) then it can be a bonus to have that personal time each day.
55 minutes in Melbourne via public transport.
10 minute walk to station.
35 minute train ride.
10 minute walk to office.
If I drove it would be 30 minutes from the time I leave my garage to when I reach my office however in true ozbargain style:
Public Transport = $6.00 per day.
Driving = $19.70 per day. Citylink and parking (excludes petrol and car wear and tear costs)
<4 minutes. It's literally around the corner.
Great Western Suburb to Western Suburb via M4
25km took me about 35 mins if I drive
M4 Eastbound is a joke between M7 to Cumberland Hwy.
It used to be bad from the M7 east bound. Now its bad from Mamre rd east bound. I reckon another 10 years and it will be bad from Mulgoa rd east bound lol
PT is 1h10m D2D each way on average unless they change up train stops and convert my train in to express, then its anyones guess but add 30-45mins on overage.
Drive (leaving same time as i would for PT) is 25-30mins AM, PM is on average 45mins, Fridays are hit and miss at up to 90mins or more, I usually WFH Fridays.
I'd still rather sit in my car than be stuffed in to a Sydney train any day of the week.
An hour and 15, or an hour and half if I miss my usual train. Sydney
About 30 seconds; I'm lucky enough to work from home. If I need to go in to the "actual" office, it's a little over an hour.
Riding push bike to work 50 min
Bus to work 25 min same as driving and parking so never drive
Canberra = best
If I car its 10 minutes + a 8 minute walk for free parking :D
Motorbike 10 minutes + a 1 minute walk (free) + time to get gear on, get the bike out almost equals the free carpark walk.
Haven't tried the bicycle yet but keen to give it a go as it gets warmer.
Bus is a 5 minute walk + 10 minute ride + 5 minute walk but a little unpredicatable - handy on occassion though
Could not imagine adjusting to an hour + commute.
It takes a while. I'm still semi-bitter about it sometimes. I use to live in an apartment in the city and it was a 12 minute walk to work. I'm now out in the suburbs and it's 55 minutes commute. The first 2 months of getting used to that change was huge. It was very nice having an extra 90 minutes a day to do housework/leisure activities. I used to go to the gym after work 3-5 times a week . Now I still go after work but i'm only going once or twice a week.
I have no issue with my up to 2hr20m commute given other colleagues are pushing 2hrs each way from Wollongong to Sydney daily.
That's crazy. 2hr20min?
15minute by car here, Adelaide. Drive right into the carpark at work. Carparking cost is also only $7 for the whole week (in CBD). Why oh why would I choose Sydney over what I have here…
2hr20m per day (1h10m each way)
Thats quite common of most people I know.
2hrs each way, thats crazy.
25 minute walk
Sydney. Just under an hour door to door. 41mins on train + 15mins walk. For people living in other states or cities, this might seem like a lot but for me personally it's great as I used to live further away and spent double the time commuting (2 hours each way).
I always get seats on the train and read, nap or watch tv series on my tablet.
6-7 minute drive. The perks of living and working regionally.
I did a 1.5 hour (each way) commute for a few months and it was ridiculous. It's expensive, tiring, and doesn't leave you with the time (or motivation) to do much else during the week.
just under 3 hours per day - Sydney's West to Sydney CBD. 25 minute drive to train station then a 1 hour train ride to the city each way = 3 hours transit per day pretty much.
Reason being: We purchased our first home and could comfortably afford quite far away from the city. The closest train station is Cabramatta. We hate the transit but we are not paying rent….Will move to the north west in a few years and use that new train line which is just as crap.
We are used to the transit - and nice area we live in. Still it's pretty shit
IMO you should find a job closer to home :P
haha not an option. I'm in finance.
It's all good. Got equity
I live next door to one of my offices. 15m from door to door. Biggest personal break room :)
15 metres?
Yup. Almost have enough eneloops to pave my way to work.
1.5 hours one-way using public transport. Lives in Sydney west glenfield area. Office near to Ryde. Sometimes work from train or learn on train…..
10 - 15 minutes by car. 25 minutes by bus.
Parking $3.50 per day (can get free if get in early enough). Bus $4.60 per day (could have gone up). Bus only runs til 7.00pm (regional victoria)
Bike is about 40 minutes, but in my view it is too dangerous in the morning to ride in, and it requires significant effort (suits and shirts) plus I sweat too much.
Overall the convenience of the car has made it my preference.
10 mins door to door driving in Cairns (half that time is spent in the low speed roads on the job site itself)
10 mins door to door walking in Brisbane
I hate long travelling times. To me, that is money and quality of life lost.
5 minute drive, 10 minutes on a bad day.
Used to be 90-120 minutes each way by PT for about 2 years. Then I moved and it became 35 minutes each way by PT for about 4 years. Moved again and now it's 20 minute walking each way.
As long as I can afford to, I'll never go back.
This is the greatest quality of life improvement I've ever had. Don't undersetimate how taxing a commute can be, I made that mistake while I was 'toughing it out' for years.
Perth. Drive ~ 35-45 minutes each way depending on traffic.
Melbourne, 5min walk, 50min tram, 5min walk. So about an hour each way. Just moved to be closer to work and have more transport options but that has doubled my rent, also able to ride from here, but still wld be about 45 mins riding and havnt done it yet due to limited bike racks at work :(
I actually almost quit due to the commute and they instead let me work from home multiple days a week to ease the commuting pressure which is great. However if a job came up closer to home I would probably be all over it. Commuting sucks.
My old place took about 60 mins on the tram on a good day, 120mins on a bad day (only the one option for PT there).
25min on the motorcycle.
1hr by car.
Public transport is possible but it would take 1hr45min
1.5 hours by bus. I live in Adelaide but it's more to do with how the bus timetable lines up with my start times (poorly) :'( I use my time by drawing.
I smell a PT graffiti artist.
15-17 minutes. Perth. By car averaging 70km/h
~90min door to door - South-West Sydney to USyd (37km): 15-20min drive, 43min train (46min on the Nov timetable), 15-20min walk (rest is buffer time)
For reference, the average commute in Australia 29min, and 22.4% of commuters travel for >45min one-way…
Darwin - 15mins walk
Newcastle, NSW - 5mins walk
Sydney - 55mins door to door.
It used to take over an hour in the mornings and an hour and a half after work by public transport. This included a 15 minute brisk walk.
Luckily I had the opportunity to look for rentals in the area. I now live a 20 minute brisk walk away. Saving over $40 a week in public transport costs, but paying $20 more a week in rent. Still worth it, because my time is precious to me!
If I leave home after 6:30am (2 hrs 5mins), leave home 6am (1hr 55mins). Difference is I miss out on parking at the train station and have to park in the back streets and walk to station.
Usual commute:
0600: Leave home and drive to train station
0624: Park at station and walk to platform
0631: Board train (changeover trains)
0747: Arrive train station near my work (Chatswood)
0755: Walk into work
Half the time I sleep on the train, other half I study. Been doing this for about 5 years now and it's been ok unless there are service interruptions or train delays which could easily take me 2hrs 20mins to get home. Interruptions are usually in the evening.
Why am I doing this? because I live with my parents (no rent), get free public transport, could service multiple mortgages (Sydney properties) and prefer the burbs lifestyle.
An hour each way, give or take, including walking to the office. I drive and pay for parking rather than travel on public transport with all the scum.
For a long time I lived close and only 5 minutes walk away. That was great. Then I moved 30 minutes away and that was also pretty damn good.
An hour is pushing the limits of what I think is optimal but I couldn’t afford to buy a house closer. On the good side I get to listen to a lot of audiobooks on the way.
I remember Centrelink demands people accept offers <= 2 hours away. I think that’s pretty ridiculous especially if it’s not full time and even then. Travelling for half the time you’re working every day? No way.
Big + for audiobooks ! However I drive and take public transport loll dont know if I’d refer to myself as scum or anyone else on the bus/train lolll
Good people catch the bus. But for my sanity I need to stay away from all the bad ones. Since eliminating that threat from my life I’m way happier.
Audiobooks has kept me sane from the retards on the road at peak hour..hahahahaha
7 seconds… I work from home!
Once self-drive cars come in, then all these long commutes would be quite productive… maybe…
You mean connected and autonomous vehicles? It will cause other problems. There's a boundary between a safe zone and catastrophic zone. Supporting and implementing AI and machine learning technology is in some way an act of terrorism. The design of AI would exclude the human (user) out of the design of the system and allow the machine to take control especially for safety critical systems. Thus potentially decreasing the safety integrity level of the system.
It's good to have some level of automation to assist the user in operating the system (whatever it may be, car, plane, mobile phone) but very dangerous to exclude the user out of the system.
Source: Qualified systems engineer (and yes I have an engineering degree and two masters - unlike most "IT systems engineers")
Varies with traffic. School holidays, it can be as low as 45 minutes. Bad traffic, or a few accidents, and I can be on the road an hour and a half or more.
By train, it STARTS at an hour and a half, and gets longer, and if I don't take the long option it involves standing up and changing trains and buses several times.
Western suburbs of Sydney, working in the North Ryde area. It was meant to be a three month temp job, so I didn't mind, but I've been here for a year now. Starting to get a bit difficult in terms of lost time and road tolls.
12 meters to my study, unless I have to visit clients lol
30 seconds the time it takes me to walk from bed my to my office.
30mins but there's a lot of variable traffic and major crashes several times a week, so could be 2hrs+
10 minutes by car. 15 minutes when traffic is heavy. I'm in Canberra.
45mins south morang line, vic. With my nintendo switch it feels like 10 mins
15 min walk. I live about 1.5kms away from my office.
4-5 mins by car or 13 min walk.
Tassie life ftw. :)
25 minutes from home to sitting at my desk at work.
on a good day it's around 30 mins, on a bad day it has taken an hour. it's a single bus, covering 17km
5 minute drive. I guess that's the one advantage of renting - you can locate close to work.
Mine is about 50 mins door to desk. When I say/think that it sounds long, but overall it's ok as it's about 10~15min to the bus stop, and then just a single bus ride which doesn't feel that long itself either and always plenty of seats (Canberra).
I think from this I've learnt about myself I would rather a longer but "simple direct" commute over one that may be quicker but I have to switch routes or whatever.
I did use to have a job where it'd only be a 15 minute drive (opposite direction to peak hour) with free parking but the job was shit.
1.5hrs door to door. Catch a train or trains. Change 3 times, 4 different trains. Thankfully the train is close both ways. Under 10 min walk.
70 min door to door. Started at 72:20 driving to station, train then walk to office. I feel like spendinf half of my life on the train
8 minutes walking. Bliss.
35 minutes public transport.
25 minutes by bike.
30-40 min drive in Melbourne. I'm at the mercy of the ring road so almost exactly once a month it's 1hr30min when some nuff nuff has an accident and lanes are closed.
5-10 min walk to work, 2 blocks.
30 mins. 45 after dropping the kids to school. I still hate the crap out of it though.
a 15 minute walk
a half an hour train journey
a ten-minute wait in the terminal
a 20 minute train journey
a 15 minute walk
and one more of this on my way back home
i think i must learn driving.
Around ~35 mins by train+walking.
Would be interesting to overlay this with salary info..
3 minutes, I live about 1km from work.
Prob about 4mins to get to my work and I go by foot :)
6.5 minutes to work and 9.5 minutes home, all up hill on the way home by push bike. Probably takes me longer to get changed 4 times a day. But do feel it's special on the wet days when I drive.
Over an hour, either a lift to the station or a bus. I don't mind the train ride though as I can either play some games or watch some shows.
Between 1:10-1:30 … used to it now but yeh long commute
Mine is about 1.10 minutes. I park near station (If I walked it would add another 10mns and would make me all sweaty). Then 40-45 on the train. Then another 20 minutes walking and bus. I’m looking for something closer, however no luck so far. Good think is on the train I watch Netflix, listen to music, read or do some work. I always get a seat :)
I miss the days when I had a commute of one hour each way on the sydney trains. I read lots of books on my kindle, read a number of magazines on magzter, watched entire series like house of cards just travelling on the trains. Now-a-days, I opted for an office that is less than half an hour drive from my home, due to the necessity of taking care of my child. I still try to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, spotify in the car. But I really miss the train travel.
10 mins by car for me. Works well.
45 minutes door to door if I set off before 7:30am with 30 minutes of that on the train to read a book, so pretty good. Especially as I live 5 minutes from the beach.
40min to work 25min back - 10km - Sydney, driving from Mascot to the cbd on the M1, and it's getting worse everyday!
15 min on Motorbike :)
Takes me 10 mins walk but I figure why waste 8 mins so I drive..
Plus can shit on the home dunny
Sometimes its worth that extra sleep in, and also having the car on the way home makes it easy to stop past the supermarket etc…
An hour and a half - 2 hour drive.. :(
1.5+ hrs door to door each way… it's a pretty comfy train ride where I can listen to music/audio books, watch youtube videos, sleep, play games, sometimes catch up on work etc. I definitely prefer the train over sitting in bumper to bumper traffic though.
ps. I'm currently on Level 2777 of Candy Crush! Haha
About 1hr on a good day
First get dropped off by car to train station about 10min, 30-45min train ride, 7-15min tram and 5 min walk.
6 mins each way… On my Scooter 👍
I live in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
It takes me 30-40 minutes to get to the city by driving to the nearest train station, taking the train and walking. Or 50-60 minutes on bus to city (but I rarely use buses as they are either not on time or no regular time schedule.
I used to volunteer at a place in the East (2 hour one way + walking to the building).
Now I've secured a call centre job right near my house. I feel lucky.
Uni: 25 minutes
part time job 1: 6 minutes
part time job 2: 25-30 minutes
70mins, driving to a train station and then a train and then walking. Quit my job for something closer with slightly less pay and significantly less working hours. Today is my second last day here!
1 hour 40 minute drive each way.
Sydneysider here.
Normally a 45-55 minute drive, plus $7-ish in tolls.
35 on a really good day and another $3-4 tolls, 80 minutes on a really bad day.
Wouldn't consider public transport, that's 1:40 at least.
My commute to work is about 50 minutes (from 6am), but going home is a bloody pain, (at around 3-4pm)takes me 1.5 - 2 hours to get home.
Driving is a must because I have to visit a lot of different job sites.
Melbourne, about 5 mins by car (depends on the lights to be honest). I could walk as per google maps it would be 17 mins but I use my car for work sometimes and am probably a bit lazy.
One day I got home and was in bed by 4:06 PM for a nap… was amazing!
12 minutes, 14 if I hit 4 sets of traffic lights.
15 mins down the road. Gotta love that.
Used to live 2 minutes away from work in Sydney. Always do #2 at home. The good old days.
15 minutes by Car. Canberra.
32(approx) Minutes door to door.
Home to work
2 minutes to freeway @ 60kmh
20 minutes on freeway @ 100kmh
then off freeway in 80kmh zone for 5 minutes
then 3 minutes in 60kmh zone
2 minute walk to office
No PT for me…..life's good.