No, my commute rocks!

Get to kayak to work! With the orcas...wait a minute...

London.
Top Gear.

/not obscure

My job is 8 minutes away from home and has its own exit off the freeway.

\by design
\time spent commuting is just wasted life.

Next week on FOX: Man vs Machine 9!!!
/Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Seems like a pretty stupid route to choose for your commute subby.

[obvious] tag stuck in traffic?

Yeah, but you can have a cig and listen to music when you're driving it.

jingks: Seems like a pretty stupid route to choose for your commute subby.

Sure, but he would have only saved 5 minutes if he took the most direct route(which would be the 110 through downtown[HA!] to the 10 to Santa Monica[where no public rail will dare]). Hurray Los Angeles!

Foaming: Meh - he added on an extra 20 minutes to the drive by going the wrong way.

The wheelchair athletes will still beat him...

The commute from central LA (along the 10) to Westwood was one of the driving factors in quitting my job up there. I could leave the office at 5:30 and drive straight home, arriving at around 6:45 or I could stay there until 6:45 and get home by 7:15. It astonishes me how so many people are still willing to suffer through that.

/cool story, etc.
//worst 13 miles ever.

considering he got lost - which a runner will not - he'd have made it in time easily.

/Lives on marathon route in Montreal
//couldn't do the route by car, as part of it uses bike trails and goes opposite one-way streets

Arizona Bay is way overdue..

I live near Dodger Stadium (Glendale) and frequently have to go to the west side. Usually, taking the freeways (5n-134w-101n-405s) it takes me about an hour. Going on the freeways thru la (5s-110s-10w-405n) it takes twice as long. Just thought I'd share that bit of useless info.

I live a couple of blocks from Sunday's finish line and I don't drive, so I'm getting a big kick out of this thread.

My commute (Philly here) is 6 miles and 30 min on a good day. Biking is also 30 min standard. So you can guess which I choose when it's warm.

So what? Anybody who's driven in LA won't be surprised by this.

I only opened this thread to hear smug comments from people who work at home regarding the length of their commutes.

006andahalf: The commute from central LA (along the 10) to Westwood was one of the driving factors in quitting my job up there. I could leave the office at 5:30 and drive straight home, arriving at around 6:45 or I could stay there until 6:45 and get home by 7:15. It astonishes me how so many people are still willing to suffer through that.

/cool story, etc.
//worst 13 miles ever.

I had that problem in Charleston SC. Had to be at work at 8, if I left at 7:30 I would arrive at 8:15, if I left at 7:15 I'd get there by 7:30.

While the job I work sucks a sack of shiat, I do enjoy being able to walk there in a little under 15 minutes. There is nothing like a short walk to work to start your day with your head clear and your blood moving. It's too bad most people don't have the luxury of very affordable housing with a short walk to the city center.

JiggaMyZigga: Arizona Bay is way overdue..

Gyrfalcon: jingks: Seems like a pretty stupid route to choose for your commute subby.

Pretty much this.

If you're commuting from Santa Monica to Dodger Stadium, you deserve everything you get.

Thought we were talking about Louisiana until this post. I really need to go to bed.

Well, of course it's slow when you're stuck behind a bunch of people running.

Not if you're a kourier and you manage to poon a deliverator.

I hate commuting. I don't like LA.

Commuting in LA would be a double whammy.

Driving in LA sucks, but I still can't believe how stupid most drivers are. I figured that with the notorious traffic in LA, everyone and their mother would try to optimize their route, meaning that eventually all the major throughfares in an area will become more or less equally clogged.

Not so. I don't know about the height of rush hour, but I've been on Santa Monica Boulevard a few times slightly off rush hour, crawling along at 2 inches a minute, when I turned and drove a few blocks south to find Olympic Boulevard nearly empty. Apparently it's worth sitting in standstill traffic on a road just because it was mentioned in a Sheryl Crow song. Or maybe people think if they stray 100 feet off the main road they'll end up being gang-murdered, or something. Sheesh.

proletarian: Yeah, but you can have a cig and listen to music when you're driving it.

Don't forget the 6 pack.

voodoowizard: proletarian: Yeah, but you can have a cig and listen to music when you're driving it.

Don't forget the 6 pack.

And a joint.

Its not an LA thing, its a general traffic rush hour thing. It's the same in Milwaukee. If I leave work at 5:00 I get home at 5:45, and if I leave work at 6:00 I get home at 6:20.

So guess what. I choose to leave at 7 and get home at 7:15.

Same for the mornings, come in an hour or two off rush hour (either earlier or later) and traffic's nonexistant.

More people need to move their hours a little bit. It's stupid to sit in traffic idling your engine when gas is not free.

This dude is either an enormous pussy or a moran. Even at the heaviest time of day, any seasoned L.A. driver could make that route in 45 minutes.

/FAIL tag pouting in corner

Zel: Its not an LA thing, its a general traffic rush hour thing. It's the same in Milwaukee. If I leave work at 5:00 I get home at 5:45, and if I leave work at 6:00 I get home at 6:20.

So guess what. I choose to leave at 7 and get home at 7:15.

Same for the mornings, come in an hour or two off rush hour (either earlier or later) and traffic's nonexistant.

More people need to move their hours a little bit. It's stupid to sit in traffic idling your engine when gas is not free.

Sure, but that same drive is an hour in LA and still double most hours of daylight. It takes me 20 minutes to get to Torrance from Los Alamitos at night, 35-45 during daylight hours, and 1hr to 1h15 during rush hour. I can make the rushhour drive in Denver from a southern Denver area suburb to Fort Collins(which is an entirely different metro area 80 miles away) in nearly the same amount of time.

I'm sure it's been said, but this is why I happily don't live in LV anymore.

But what happens if you need to be at the gym in 26 minutes?

I love LA!

(We love it!)

I live, depending on which route, 50 or 56.7 km from work. We have commuter rail, highway and freeway between my house and work.

Times are "each way"...
Train: 1.5 hrs or 3 hours if something breaks -- ie, every other day
Car in rush hour: 1.5 hrs
Car no traffic (always traffic): 35 min
Bicycle: 2 hrs (longer route)
Moped: 55 minutes

Everyone thought I was a retard for riding a moped to work. Not only it the fastest means of transport, but it is also cheaper than a bus pass in running costs (insurance, tires, gasoline, oil, etc). Mix in a little biking and you are in great shape.

Now my commute is 0 min since I switched jobs and work from home. I even have a company car that sits in my driveway taking up space. w00t!

3 hours is a damned fast marathon.

/4 hours 20

TorqueToad 2010-03-19 04:51:29 AM
I love LA!

(We love it!)

Nobody walks in L.A.

aerojockey 2010-03-19 02:21:00 AM

...I don't know about the height of rush hour, but I've been on Santa Monica Boulevard a few times slightly off rush hour, crawling along at 2 inches a minute, when I turned and drove a few blocks south to find Olympic Boulevard nearly empty. Apparently it's worth sitting in standstill traffic on a road just because it was mentioned in a Sheryl Crow song.

The Santa Monica Freeway sure can make a country girl blue.

Krymson Tyde: Xanlexian: voodoowizard: proletarian: Yeah, but you can have a cig and listen to music when you're driving it.

Don't forget the 6 pack.

And a joint.

You can do all three while running it as well.

Definitely if you include cocaine in the mix.

Krymson Tyde: You can do all three while running it as well.

onon my man.

/fark hash?

One of the upsides of living in Iowa is that it's not elbows and assholes.

Maybe the only upside, except for maybe the fantastic meth.

I get up at 0500 so my 22 mile commute to the south bay on the 405 doesn't take me 45+ minutes. If I don't leave by 1500 it'll take me an hour to get home. Tuesdays and Thursdays I have meetings until 1600, so I take the green line instead. Takes almost an hour but only about 10 minutes on the 605. Way less hassle, and my iPhone keeps me entertained for the train ride.

Yes, driving in southern California sucks.

/where's my Fark app?