Commuting

fields5069

We weren't allowed anywhere near the lovely hexagonal or octagonal building. We knew our place. That was 25 years ago though.

Drew_TNBD

Moss said:

In before @octatonic posts that picture of the corridor between his house and workshop

I think you mean the wing between his house and workshop

Drew_TNBD

crunchman said:

Drew_TNBD said:

@crunchman - Did you receive anything free in your youth? University perhaps?

I'm all for for sending kids to university for free.  We'd be better spending money on that.

It's just that we have a massive air pollution and obesity crisis and 50% of car journeys (or something like that) are under 3 miles and most of them really should be walked or cycled.  At the moment our kids are getting the idea that it is normal to use motorised transport for short journeys.

Yeah... you're right... kids should just walk to school:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/37503982

Roland

Over the years I've had the pleasure of most forms of commuting. The shortest was twelve feet down the corridor into my study. The longest involved a one hour drive, a 90 minute flight, and another 90 minute drive. Each method has its good and bad points. Working, reading, or sleeping on the train/plane. Listening to your own music, or choice of radio station, in the car. Reading the paper, or talking to the driver, in the limo. With a little experience you tend to ignore the unnecessary stuff: other passengers, airline "breakfast", road delays; and work out the important things: where to get a good coffee before the train, which motorway services to use, when to use the bus and when to walk, where to stand on the platform, where to eat/drink/sit at each airport.

Roland

LooseMoose said:

Only one thing wrong with public transport and that's the public.

As Sid Viscious said "I've met the man in the street .... "

octatonic

Drew_TNBD said:

Moss said:

In before @octatonic posts that picture of the corridor between his house and workshop

I think you mean the wing between his house and workshop

One doesn't like to toot one's own horn.

What am I saying?
One does....

Guitar_Slinger

 

Roland said:

Each method has its good and bad points.

With a little experience you tend to ignore the unnecessary stuff: other passengers, airline "breakfast", road delays; and work out the important things: where to get a good coffee before the train, which motorway services to use, when to use the bus and when to walk, where to stand on the platform, where to eat/drink/sit at each airport.

Wise words. In 28 years my commute has varied from a 3 minute motorbike ride to 80 minutes on two tube lines. The majority (last 20 years) has been under an hour on one tube line, getting a seat at both ends and switching off by reading or listening to music.

We're thinking of moving out of London and while the missus thinks I'll hate a longer commute, little tweaks can make it easier. Like starting/leaving work earlier to get a seat, catching the fast trains or working from home one day a week.

Now all we have to do is decide where the fuck to live, that's an hour north of Charing Cross.

holnrew

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

crunchman

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

UnclePsychosis

crunchman said:

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

Behave.

holnrew

crunchman said:

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

I get it, you hate kids.

Drew_TNBD

crunchman said:

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

This is like the benefits argument - bloody scrouunnggersss!! They should be working, or at the very least not spending it all on booze and fags!

... even though the benefits cost to this country is well below others, and well within tolerance.

Not every kid is fortunate enough to live 2minutes from their school.

mellowsun

Started a new job recently and the commute is very tiring. My old commute was 25 mins each way, this is more like an hour.

Myranda

HAL9000 said:

I had to take the train into London Bridge during the rush hour yesterday. How people put up with that for more than a few days is beyond me. Ok, I expect salaries are better and all that, but if the commute takes, say, ninety minutes each way then that's fifteen hours of my life down the pan each week. Frankly I'd rather spend that fifteen hours with the ones I love instead of wasting it on getting to my place of work.

F***ing London Bridge.

For a short time I'm stuck commuting to uni ... and go through London Bridge where they f***ing no longer stop with the connecting train... adding a half hour each way to my journey.

The train goes THOUGH London Bridge, passing along a platform that it could stop at... but for some reason relating to the improvement work the train wont stop moving there until Jan 2018. 

It's so possible to stop there that there's a sign for the driver saying "Do not release doors" and signs for the passengers "Do not alight here, platform not in use".

It makes no sense and has added hours to my week. I can't see how people do commuting of any real distance for any length of time it's so boring!

d8m

I have a short drive to work about 15 minutes from the centre of town out to the country in the morning but can be double that getting home in the evening on a bad day.

Not sure I could hack long commutes either by car or Public transport.

Sporky

I don't commute any more. This is a good thing.

I usually go to the office once a week; if I want to go early it takes about an hour, if I aim for about tennish it takes forty minutes.

Otherwise my journeys are to meet customers, not just to sit in front of a different computer in a less comfortable chair.

fields5069

Drew_TNBD said:

crunchman said:

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

This is like the benefits argument - bloody scrouunnggersss!! They should be working, or at the very least not spending it all on booze and fags!

... even though the benefits cost to this country is well below others, and well within tolerance.

Not every kid is fortunate enough to live 2minutes from their school.

This. We're 2.9 miles away from our daughter's school, and about 2.7 miles from the default catchment school. The council scrapped the "safe route" criterion when they realised that there are very few safe routes through Newport, so now they have a "we expect an adult to walk nearly 12 miles a day to deliver their child to school" criterion. That's why my daughter's on a bus. With a driver who doesn't give 2 shits what the kids do. She's scared to get on to come home sometimes. What a joyride eh!

octatonic

holnrew said:

crunchman said:

holnrew said:

If kids don't get free buses, you'll just have parents in their cars driving them about. Buses hardly contribute to congestion compared with that possibility.

It's not the congestion now.  It's stopping them being lazy and getting them into good fitness habits for when they are adults.  It's also about saving money on bus subsidies.  There are better things to spend it on - like proper funding for education and the NHS.

I get it, you hate kids.

Better than liking them too much, I guess.

chrispy108

I drive about 7 minutes.
I'd do 15 or 20, but I wouldn't want to do much more.
I did Brighton to Sheffield for a few months.... Not every day obviously 

DrJazzTap

I've been a lazy sod this year. I cycled to work last year, which is about twenty miles a day. The commute would take anything from forty minutes to an hour. That is all dependent on how late i was running, or how windy and horrible it was on my ride home.
This year I've hardly done any cycling and have driven in more. It usually take about twenty to forty five minutes to drive in. 
I'm not a big advocate of public transport. Especially here in the south west, it's far to expensive and badly run.

I would rather walk or cycle. i did all of that cycling last year for a few reasons but the main one was to make sure i didn't become too reliant on the car. 

My old car broke down last February and I would have had to take about three buses to get into work. So rather than spend a fortune on bus fares. I pushed myself to get on the bike. Once you get into the swing of doing it, it becomes routine. I would avoid rush hours and arrive feeling positive.  

My sister used to walk ten miles a day to work. Again because the buses would take forever and she would spend a fortune on fares.  
When we had snow a few years ago, she walked into work and one of her co-workers had rang up and said she couldn't make it in....... This lady lived two minutes away.
My sister's boss said "well funny you say that. Grace has just walked in from the other side of Bristol. She set off at six am"