How Long is your RT Commute?

46 miles round trip. I usually leave for work between 5:00 and 5:30 AM, so not much in the way of traffic. About 1/2 hour drive.

Going home in the afternoon is pot luck.

 

Roughly 120 miles round trip, without traffic it can take as little as 50 minutes one way. (95% is highway driving) If anything happens, the road is wet, it's raining, there might be a possibility of snow. Traffic will be crazy and my one way commute will take about 2 hours. I'd move closer, but I'm upside down and under water in my mortgage. So i sucks it up and make the drive to work. It doesn't matter anyway because the price of my house would barely buy a 600 square foot condo near work! I'd rather commute and live in a nice house vs. Living in a closet size condo and be close to work.

 

I ride between 86 and 102 miles each way, from York, Pa to Dulles, Va, 5 or often 6 days a week. The route depends on how I feel and where I may get the best mpg. The 102 mile route is almost all highway and the fastest time-wise, drops mpg though, trashes it if it's windy. The 86 miler is the longest in time, doing all 2-lane roads through towns. It's the most stress-free though and I often take it if it is windy or nasty out. My normal ride is a happy medium of highway and back roads, comes in at 98.6 one way and usually gives best mpg, best was 64.3.

The best time I ever did a trip was 1:48, worst was just under 4 hours. I average 2 hours in and 2:20 back home.

I bought my house at the wrong time, had a 3-year plan to build equity in an affordable area and then move closer to work. Now it's been 8 and will keep going until the market rebounds. Very happy that I love my Prius.

I am debating a relocation with the company to drop the commute but it's to Phoenix, still thinking about it and wondering what I would do with hours of free time!!