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How Long is your RT Commute?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by JMD, Feb 21, 2013.

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How long is your Round Trip Commute

  1. 0-30 Minutes

    6 vote(s)
    27.3%

  2. 31 Minutes to 1 Hour

    7 vote(s)
    31.8%

  3. 1 to 1 1/2 Hours

    4 vote(s)
    18.2%

  4. 1 1/2 to 2 Hours

    1 vote(s)
    4.5%

  5. Above 2 Hours

    3 vote(s)
    13.6%

  6. I'm a Trucker

    1 vote(s)
    4.5%
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  1. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    Can you estimate how much time you spend in the car commuting round trip to work daily?
    Post any associated rants and raves.
     
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  2. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

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    About one minute to get from my bedroom to my in-home office.
     
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    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

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    It also depends on the season/time of year... usually about 25 minutes each way.

    Around Christmas time... it can take me more than an hour to get home going up Howe Ave because of the shoppers.
     
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  4. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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  5. car compulsive

    car compulsive Active Member

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    Depending on route, 88-93 mile roundtrip in 100-115 minutes. Obviously, most all highway against rush hour traffic.
     
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  6. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

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    i have always made it a point to live withing 20 minutes or so from where i work. the one time i took a job an hour away, once i was comfortable that i would be working there for awhile, i moved closer.
     
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  7. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    I live 17 miles from work one way. Close to home. Can't complain.
     
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  8. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

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    sounds like a volt, not a pip.:p
     
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  9. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    I know. My car is only 5 months old I'd get hung out to dry if I tried to sell it. I'll be honest I was nervous buying a volt or Pip when I was looking to buy for many reasons.

    I like my car I will look at the numbers when the Gen 4 comes out. If it makes sense I'll buy.
     
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  10. goddess prii

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    Takes approximately 35 mins to work and 40 plus back home. (on a good day) :) Bad days..... I don't want to say:eek:
    50 miles round trip.
     
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  12. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    Friday traffic is a bear. Rain tends to slow stuff down. An accident and hang it up.

    Once drove home from OC to Carlsbad and some oil tanker rolled over and spilled near Pendelton. Hear it on the radio. Went to a 5:30 movie and chilled out until it was cleaned up.
     
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  13. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    If you get paid by the Mile for expenses the Prius can be money maker for you.
     
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  14. mmmodem

    mmmodem Senior Taste Tester

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    Just got home from work. 52.4 miles, 1 hr 15 minutes. 92 mpg.
     
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    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    92 MPG can't beat that. :)
     
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    Can you estimate how much time you spend in the car commuting round trip to work daily?
    None, take the train lol.
     
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  17. JMD

    JMD 2012 Prius 4 Solar Roof

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    The train! In my early 20's post graduate did LIRR to Manhattan to cut my teeth in the corporate world. Man it as fun but getting to work was a job in itself.
     
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  18. JimboPalmer

    JimboPalmer Tsar of all the Rushers

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    I get paid by the hour, shop to shop, so the cheaper my costs, the more is profit.
     
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    We moved from Kokomo, IN to Fishers, IN a bit over two years ago since the wife works in Indy and her 1 to 2 hour commute one way and her $265 a month gas was getting to her. A year ago December we started looking for a new car that was going to pay for itself in mpg savings compared to her 2001 3.3 Voyager, which again was using over $250 a month in fuel costs even with a much shorter commute. If gas is $4 a gallon her Prius gas savings compared to the mini van is right at the $280 a month lease payments. We leased since we had no money at all and could not afford the extra $$ in financing a car. I know that leasing is the worst way to buy a car, but with our mpg savings it works great for us.
     
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    15 minutes (7miles) each way, and two days from home.


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