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Old 10-28-2010, 02:23 PM
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ITT we talk/brag/complain about our commute.

I have a 30 minute commute right now but TXDOT is starting a HUGE 2 year project on the freeway soon and I'm NOT looking forward to the mess/hassle of construction.
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:29 PM
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Try driving in DFW during rush hour lol

I live somewhat close to one major office/entertainment area in DFW, drive on 3 tollways, and work in another major business district (where a large chunk of HQs are located). Bleh.
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:52 PM
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Try driving in DFW during rush hour lol

I live somewhat close to one major office/entertainment area in DFW, drive on 3 tollways, and work in another major business district (where a large chunk of HQs are located). Bleh.
I used to live and commute in the DC area so take that! UGH, El Paso has 800,000 people driving on a road system designed for maybe 300,000.....
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:33 PM
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I work and live in the same city.... and love it!!
All I have to do is drive streets to and from work which can be up to 30 min, but an easy drive. I even ride my bike to work sometimes.
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:40 PM
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I get on the highway at the 42nd worst bottleneck inthe country, according to the people who keep up with this stuff.
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:53 PM
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My best commute ever was when we lived in Nashville. My husband and I both worked at the Vanderbilt Medical Center and we lived only 1/2 mile away. Walked to work for three straight years. Good times. It was a nice change from commuting in Dallas, including one of the toll roads referenced by K_S above.

Now my commute is just down the hall to the kids' rooms.
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:00 PM
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I used to live and commute in the DC area so take that! UGH, El Paso has 800,000 people driving on a road system designed for maybe 300,000.....
Yeah, DFW's highway system is very good, but is not designed to hold the ~6.5 million residents + visitors. It's not as bad as Austin, but it's still a hassle driving through all of it.

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My best commute ever was when we lived in Nashville. My husband and I both worked at the Vanderbilt Medical Center and we lived only 1/2 mile away. Walked to work for three straight years. Good times. It was a nice change from commuting in Dallas, including one of the toll roads referenced by K_S above.
I used to work across from Northpark, but even then, I rarely got caught in "bad" traffic. It usually took me ~20-25 minutes to get from Irving/Las Colinas to that area.

Now I have to take 161 to 190 to the Tollway (). I know the tollroads have less congestion than the freeways, so I can't imagine making that drive on the freeways (Someone suggested that I take Loop 12 to 35 to 635 to Preston or 75. I almost spit on that person).

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Old 10-28-2010, 03:10 PM
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Now I have to take 161 to 190 to the Tollway (). I know the tollroads have less congestion than the freeways, so I can't imagine making that drive on the freeways (Someone suggested that I take Loop 12 to 35 to 635 to Preston or 75. I almost spit on that person).

That person was smokin' some serious crack.

My commute was Beltline/Tollway initially to Methodist and later to Parkland. Not too much traffic compared to other freeways, however, if there was ever a serious accident on the Tollway there wasn't really another option to get to work. I was too far from Central or 35 so I just chose to pay to sit in traffic.

Halloween night was always the worst. All those Plano/Allen peeps going home early (I got off work at 4:30) to Trick or Treat. Could take up to 2 hours some years.

/hijack- you following the World Series? I literally had tears after game 6 and again last night as the line-ups were read. Can take this to "What do you feel like saying right now" thread so as not to derail this one...
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:07 PM
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2.9 miles. under 10 minutes.
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:12 PM
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Two minutes!

But I used to live in Northern Virginia, so I sympathize.
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:30 PM
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Does anyone have a commute that is over an hour? How does it work for you and do you get used to it? If I get the transfer I'm hoping for I will end up with a 50 minute drive (w/ no traffic) to/from work.

I used to work with a guy who had a 2 1/2 hour commute ( He lives in Grand Rapids but works in metro Detroit). He ended up renting a room in town and would just go home on the weekends.
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Old 10-28-2010, 04:30 PM
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Does anyone have a commute that is over an hour? How does it work for you and do you get used to it? If I get the transfer I'm hoping for I will end up with a 50 minute drive (w/ no traffic) to/from work.
My first job out of college involved a commute of ~45 with no traffic, which quickly turned into 1:15-1:30 with. I'm a morning person, and they let me adjust my hours to come in a little earlier and miss most of it.

I would absolutely suggest getting audiobooks or Pandora for iPhone though, because hearing the same drive-time news on a 15-minute loop gets really old, really fast. I got used to it pretty quickly though.
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Old 10-28-2010, 05:04 PM
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Complain: A TomTom report awarded the Seattle metro area with the worst congestion last year. What makes it so great? From my perspective two things- geography and sprawl.

For geography, we are confined by the Puget Sound and mountains into a small space- and then we threw in a 34 square mile lake in the middle of it just for fun. That means everyone lives west (Seattle), north, east, or south of the lake. One freeway goes up each side, and two bridges connect in the middle. That means very few options to get where you want to go.

Thanks to urban sprawl and Microsoft, we also have two separate commercial areas. After Microsoft decided to set up shop in a tiny little town nobody had heard of, others decided to come join the party and now there's a booming tech scene. Redmond for sure isn't made for Microsoft traffic volumes. The kicker is that a lot of people live in Seattle but commute to Bellevue/Redmond, and vice versa. So although one way is less busy, it's not drastically so.


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Does anyone have a commute that is over an hour? How does it work for you and do you get used to it? If I get the transfer I'm hoping for I will end up with a 50 minute drive (w/ no traffic) to/from work.
I used to- I had a 45 minute commute with no traffic, which could be as much as 2 hours with bad traffic (normally an hour to 1h 15min). I only lasted a few months before I moved closer to work. Then I went to a 30-45 minute commute going 8 miles. I got used to talk radio and actually looked forward to my time to catch up on the world. I think if I were to do that longer term I'd check into audio books.

Now my commute ranges from 10-30 minutes, 3-6 miles depending on the building. With any luck, I may be able to change it to a very stable 10-15 minutes soon... we shall see
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:46 PM
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Used to have a 5 minute commute. Lived downtown, worked about 10 blocks away. Now, since I've moved to the 'burbs, its' only about 20 minutes.
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Old 10-28-2010, 03:48 PM
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My commute is 5 minutes or less.
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