[Acura604]

just wanting to get a sense of how long the commute is for people on here :
(with all the congestion we're seeing here and of course on shiddy rainy days when people forget how to drive)


HOME TO WORK?

WORK TO HOME?

TRANSIT or CAR?

...and in your opinion, where is 'YOUR' threshold? i.e. if it takes more than an hour, it isn't worth it to me.

[Presto]

8 min, both ways by car.

12 years ago, I used to do 40min/1hour.

My threshold is now nil. I cannot sit in rush hour traffic, anymore. It's so much time wasted.

[Armind]

Average about 40-45 mins with transit. On a very good day, around 30-35 mins.

With car, I would only save about 5-10 mins.

Each way.

Not worthy to drive.

[Great68]

15 minutes if I take the highway
17 minutes if I take the country backroads

Come december when my office moves, it'll be a 1.7km walk.

[Urrtoast]

If you really need to know....
Under 2 minutes each way. regardless of traffic.
With any vehicle
..

[6o4__boi]

35 to 45 mins home to work
40 to 50 mins work to home, 30 mins if i leave work late and catch the tail end of rush hour
definitely car, i can't stand transit
the only destination i'll take transit to is downtown

1 hour is probably my threshold...but if im listening to a good podcast, probably 1.5 hours at most but my threshold is also affected by the fact that 80% of my route is through the highway...so even during the shittiest conditions, i technically still cover longer distance

i can't fucking stand being stuck in traffic within city...my threshold in city is probably 20 mins. Nothing worse than sitting at Hastings and Clark at 430 in the afternoon and 30 minutes later still waiting to enter the highway.

[Liquid_o2]

With little traffic, I can do home to work in about 20 minutes. If there is shitty bridge traffic, closer to 30 minutes. It's a comfortable drive. Whenever I move (which is likely soon), the drive will unfortunately increase by a few minutes.

My threshold though is 30 minutes with no traffic. I really have no idea how people do 1 hour commutes each way by car. Pitt Meadows to Vancouver... ughhhh

[Bouncing Bettys]

30 minutes each way when I'm also dropping off/picking up kids from daycare. 15 minutes each way when I'm on my own. Hwy 1 between Abbotsford to 264th was such a huge source of stress, which I am glad I no longer have to deal with, as I take the Fraser. It does suck when everyone clogs up the Fraser when there is an accident on Hwy 1. I've had times where it has taken 15 minutes just to get through the 264th intersection.

[Acura604]

wow... my current commute has me thinking of quitting my job and finding work nearer my home.

HOME TO WORK: mornings: if dropping off kid to my parents 1hr 30mins
mornings: if no kid, 1hr

WORK TO HOME: 1hr 20mins average

and i drive. essentially to the downtown core from surrey and then downtown back to surrey. However, i'm willing to try the Port Mann bridge but from what I've seen....the bottlenecks along 1st ave through to hwy 1 before the bridge wont save me any time during the 4pm to 6pm rush.

[Dharminder]

Morning door to door just under 1 hour, drive to surrey central(10 min) - train to downtown 40-50 min.

Afternoon can be up too 1.5 hours depending on traffic and time of day.

Transit I dont mind so much even with the odd delay here and there pretty decent and gives me about 40 minutes to nap lol. I think driving my threshold is around 25 min anything beyond that is to much.

[pastarocket]

12 minute commute by car, from home to work and vice versa.

Threshold? If it is a 30 minute drive, then it's not worth it.

[unit]

was 12m round trip, now 30-35m, but almost no traffic. pretty fine with it.

[Spoon]

Approximately 45mins via car or public transit.

In my younger days, I can't imagine not driving to work. Nowadays, you can't pay me to drive to work. Sure, it sucks to be crammed with a bunch of people. But time passes by A LOT faster when I'm browsing on my phone versus being stuck in traffic.

[EmperorIS]

40m-1hr by car. Just need one asshole to turn left into a small street and my day is ruined.

Threshold ...I'll do anything for money.

[Shorn]

15 mins at 4:30 AM.. 30+ mins at 5:30 PM when I get off. And reverse those for night shifts.. Burnaby near highgate to Renfrew & Broadway. Pretty happy with it, could be worse (there's someone I work with who commutes from Chilliwack). And transit is not an option to get to work by 5 AM

[immorality]

8 min, both ways by car.

12 years ago, I used to do 40min/1hour.

My threshold is now nil. I cannot sit in rush hour traffic, anymore. It's so much time wasted.

I'm almost exactly the same. That time sitting in traffic feels like such a waste.

[DragonChi]

45 mins @ 6 am, Surrey Central to BCIT
30 mins @ 5 am

Depends on where I am on site when I head home for return time.

Threshold 45 mins driving. Ideally, 2 km walk to work. That would be the dream.

[Presto]

I'm almost exactly the same. That time sitting in traffic feels like such a waste.

It's mind boggling how much time is spent in traffic just for commuting.

With 2 weeks of vacation, stats, and weekends, there's about 240 working days in a year. If I was still doing the Coquitlam/Richmond commute, that's, at least, 90 min per day. Optimistically, that's 360 hours (15 days) of nothing but commuting each year! UGH.

[Tapioca]

To work: an hour door to door by transit (West Coast and bus)

Return trip home: about 75 minutes

I would feel pretty shitty about life if I was stuck in traffic for that amount of time, but lots of people do it.

[Inaii]

By car:
15 to work
20-25 to home

By Transit:
30-35 minutes both ways (skytrain all the way)

I have to deal with boundary though if I drive (which I predominantly do) :lol pretty sure that shaves off a few months of my life each time. Anything more than half an hour by car is a no go.

[snowball]

Car to work: 25 minutes
Car from work good traffic: 20 minutes
Car from work regular traffic: 40 minutes
Car from work with accident on the cut or ironworkers: 1-2 hours

Transit to and from work: 1 hour 15 minutes both ways

Just not worth it to transit for me, maybe if they built a skytrain to the north shore.

[EvoFire]

I almost exclusively transit as I live near the Skytrain. 30mins tops each way(sometimes the trains stop outside the station, notorious for Broadway and Waterfront). 40mins if the train decides to have minor delays.

I occasionally drive to work because I need to be in Richmond or something after work. It's about 30mins-40mins to drive to work but it's not worth it because I can be doing some browsing instead, and also parking ridiculous at Waterfront.

I used to drive 40mins to work and 50mins home from Burnaby to Richmond. HATED it. When I switched jobs to DT, the commute was shorter, and much less stressful. Unless the a job is give me a 50-100% raise, I wouldn't consider a job where I have to drive

[GabAlmighty]

5 minutes each way. And that's from one end of town to the other!

[jackmeister]

Home to Work at 845am - 15 mins

Work to home at 6pm - 15 mins
Work to home at 7pm - 3 mins

Welcome to the fabulous area of Bridgeport

[fliptuner]

Contractor, so commute varies.. a lot.

It really depends how much value you put on time, property size, and income.

[dat_steve]

Door to desk is almost always exactly 30min on transit (assuming no delays)

I'd say 40-45min would be my threshold for commuting before i'd consider moving closer.

[quasi]

10 minutes each way, wife is now the same.

My wife just switched jobs because of commute she was doing 90 to 105 minutes each way. Included driving to Bus loop, catching bus to skytrain on other side of bridge, skytrain to other skytrain and then a 5 minute walk from train station to office reversed on way home. After doing that for just over a year she was at her breaking point and said fuck it, left a job where it was Mon-Fri, choice of start and finish time as long as she did her 7.5 hours, almost 10 weeks of holidays and unlimited sick days for a new job that's shift work with no real set schedule, barely any holidays and she couldn't be happier.

[Verdasco]

10-15 minutes drive at the moment


use to be 30-45 minutes drive or one hour transit for the past couple years

[Jmac]

About 45 minutes in the morning and about 55 minutes in the afternoon.

Approximately 115 km round trip means I'm racking up around 35,000 km/year

[MrPhreak]

I take the elevator down to the lobby of my building, then walk a few blocks outside (about 5 minutes)... then take the elevator up to my office. Sometimes I stop at the Starbucks on the way.

Life is good, haha

[320icar]

Front Door to scanning in? 2:30 to 4:30 depending if I get stopped at street lights. Yes I'm a piece of shit for driving but it's at 4am and coworkers have been mugged before

[hotjoint]

Mornings about 45 mins, afternoon about 35 mins. This is commuting from Surrey (Guildford) to New West (Queensborough Landing) via highway 17 and taking alex fraser. My threshold I would say is 1 hour. My old job was literally a 2.5min drive or 15 min walk. I did that for 10 years, boy I was spoiled :lol

[MG1]

I take the elevator down to the lobby of my building, then walk a few blocks outside (about 5 minutes)... then take the elevator up to my office. Sometimes I stop at the Starbucks on the way.

Life is good, haha

Damn............ not fair but my commute is zero time, lol. Retired and enjoying every single minute of it.

Casino hopping whenever I want.

Oh, once in a while, I do volunteer work, so that makes me use a bit of my lifetime experiences of traffic avoidance techniques.

[roflwaffle604]

1hr 10 min

- 40 min drive from Coquitlam to Burnaby, then jump on Skytrain
- 20-30 min transit to office downtown

[fliptuner]

1hr 10 min

- 40 min drive from Coquitlam to Burnaby, then jump on Skytrain
- 20-30 min transit to office downtown

I guess you don't work during wce operating times?

[Infiniti]

7 mins door-to-door by bike

[Teriyaki]

6 minutes on a good day. 12 minutes on a bad day.

[mb_]

About 20-25 mins each way (20km)

I used to work in North Van (live in Surrey) and that varied from 45mins - 2 hours lol. My threshold now is 30~ mins each way

[Inaii]

1hr 10 min

- 40 min drive from Coquitlam to Burnaby, then jump on Skytrain
- 20-30 min transit to office downtown

I guess you don't work during wce operating times?

Or live near the Evergreen Line?

[haha13]

30-40 min by transit each way. New west to Burnaby

[way2quik]

The minute I step foot out the door, walk a few minutes to the bus stop, wait for the bus, transfer onto the skytrain, walk more, 52-55 minutes to work.

OMW to home, if I take the one bus straight home, 55min - 1hr.

All within East Vancouver.

[Obsideon]

Around 20-25min driving to work with heavy traffic (and making unnecessary turns because of stupid bike lanes) into downtown core
7-8min breezing home with practically empty roads at 2am

I both respect and cringe at the people that don't mind commuting close to an hour back and forth.
Personally I'm the type that would rather live in a small condo that's only 10min from work than in a big house further out and have to rip it down the highway for 50min.

[westopher]

20-25 minutes on transit. Car would take exactly the same or more both days, other than Sundays, car takes about 15 mins or less @6am. It's the only day I'll drive, if I schedule myself to work. Keeping commuting out of the car makes driving a lot more of a treat.

[Cillu]

40 minutes each way when it's rush hour. 1 hour and 20 minutes in total.

[azncreationz]

20 minutes each way, by bike, never any traffic
10 minutes to work by car, 15 minutes home as there's always traffic
30+ minutes by skytrain, only use this if it's last resort.

[a90a93]

My commute is 4-5 minutes depending on if the one intersection I have to deal with has a green light or red.

On my mountain bike it's around 7 minutes.:fullofwin:

[smoothie.]

15 minutes with traffic

Used to be 45-1hr on bus and skytrain from. Burnaby to downtown.

I'll die before I go back.

[bcuzracecarz]

Depends where the next site is...

Drove to Spirit River, Alberta (13 hours) Monday, 12 hours of work, drove home Wednesday. Drive back to Edmonton, where our home base is, this Sunday. Have put on 25k kms this year since March on my commuter, and another 30k on my work truck that sits in Edmonton. Have to drive to Sherbrooke, Quebec in August

That being said I'll never leave BC. Lol

[Dragon-88]

I live by Coq Center and commute to BCIT area.

By car ~45mins
By motorcycle under 30mins

I dont take the bus/train since its not worth my time.. I'd rather be able to commute myself.

[winson604]

By car:

PNE to Olympic Village is my route

To work: No more than 15mins regardless of time of day

To home: No more than 20mins regardless of time of day

Threshold, dunno to be honest I'm much less about the duration it takes vs the actual drive itself. I'm the type that likes to keep moving, doesn't have to be fast but if route A will take my 30 mins but the "drive" is better I'll take that over route B even if that route only takes me say 22mins but the "drive" is shittier.

[fsy82]

It was 7 mins each way but because of the amount of people moving into Surrey over the last five years its now 15mins.

Wife if she gets all green lights I would say 2mins each way..lol

[murd0c]

about 45mins to get to work and to get home could be from 45mins to an hour and a half depending on traffic. I live in Mission and work in Poco

[heleu]

With my current hours: 30 to 40 minutes each way.

When I used to start/end early: 20 minutes each way.

My record? 12 minutes. All green lights, 5 am, speeding.

[hotong]

1 hr 30 min

[Gh0stRider]

20 mins by car from bby to coq. Going against the traffic which helps.

hopefully i can get it down to a 5 min walk when i decide to move

[originalhypa]

2 mins to the kid's school, then another 8 mins to work.
I used to take 45 minutes from Langley to Maple Ridge, and an hour to get home. Langley to BCIT was also about 45 mins to get there, and an hour home.

fuck commuting.

I took a major financial hit to cut out my commute and have no regrets.

[Gh0st]

currently 15 mins each way driving.


when my apartment completes it will be 35-40 minutes each way per google maps (16kms)

[lilaznviper]

15-20 minutes from vancouver to richmond over knight st bridge going to work after rush hour

20-40 minutes back home depending on how messed up the bridge is around rush hour

about 11km each way

[freakshow]

i'm in richmond, work in olympic village.
10 min drive to sky train
sky train for 30 mins
10 min walk to office
around 50min total

my tolerance has changed over time. When i was younger, i would do any commute, because it was more about the job and opportunities. now that i'm a little older (and have a kid), my tolerance is less.. i think an hour is the max for me, and even then, it's only because my work is also flexible, so if i need to leave early or come in late, its not a big deal

[fliptuner]

2 mins to the kid's school, then another 8 mins to work.
I used to take 45 minutes from Langley to Maple Ridge, and an hour to get home. Langley to BCIT was also about 45 mins to get there, and an hour home.

fuck commuting.

I took a major financial hit to cut out my commute and have no regrets.

Agreed. I'll take the hit to be 10 minutes from home.

Haha, I thought you were still driving to Port Moody.

[originalhypa]

Our old warehouse is now a section of track for the evergreen line.
Up and over Gatensbury every day was tough on the clutch but built a strong left leg. ACT ftw!
:lol

[XplicitLuder]

my threshold used to be an hour .. leave gaglardi area down to cambie station on marine (going thru 10th ave and down to marine) but now i wonder..current job is 20mins to and from work. down cariboo to government to lougheed to brentwood (20mins) and on the way home i take willingdon onto the hwy and get off at gaglardi (20mins)

i use to think it was quicker going back the reverse way of my commute to work (everyone would take lougheed since they would hate the backup on the hwy i guess so it made my commute home 30-35mins) , but honestly hwy is about 5-10mins quicker even with the bottleneck at willingdon and at kensington.

[coneZONE]

By car, about 10 mins to work. 15-20 mins if i don't leave before 7:20AM.
Stupidass parking situation, usually have to park about a km away from the workplace.

Going home is around 30 mins because of the rush hour plus the stupid bottle necks at Cassiar Tunnel, Hastings on-ramp, McGill on-ramp, Seymour Pkwy on-ramp.

GG if there's an accident on either side of the highway LOL

[Klondike]

From my house to work, by car, is 15-18 minutes (depending on weather and congestion)

Fastest time I've gotten home was 13 minutes.

My old workplace took 20 minutes both ways and varied a lot by traffic. It took 45 min to an hour in the winter time.

My commute to my new job is so much more relaxing and predictable. ^_^

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

commuting more than 10% of your work hours should be illegal. what a waste of fucking time and energy. so inefficient.

[Hehe]

commuting more than 10% of your work hours should be illegal. what a waste of fucking time and energy. so inefficient.

Quote for truth...

I now work mainly at home... although that's probably exactly true as I tend to fly a lot.. but I used to commute 30min each way and that's about as far as I'm willing to go.

Wife used to travel for the same amount of time and she already hated it. Now she doesn't care as she gets paid to do it. :fuckthatshit:

[cdizzle_996]

Truck - 35min
1000rr - Some times sub 19min

[DGN23]

Travel by car:
45min to work
1hr to 1hr15min to get home.

I also pay bridge toll so it's costing me over $300 a month just to go to work once gas is factored in. FML

[evil_jigglypuff]

Commute is about 4.8km and which is 10 minutes drive each way.

[invader]

when you hit all the green lights on your commute, doesn't it feel like you won the lottery?

It's like "I've got a bonus 10 minutes of my life" *opens smartphone, wastes the 10 aimlessly*

[dark0821]

About 15min-20min each way, normal 9 to 5 job from Burnaby City Hall to Market Crossing. Honestly its about a 10min drive if it wasnt rush hour traffic

Threshold about.... 1 hour I said? Use to drive to Richmond everyday on knight bridge during rush hour.... LOL

[CCA-Dave]

Oh it's brutal...like 25sec to climb over the boxes I need to put away in my office door. And the coffee machine, so far away across the hall. lol

Self employment is tough in a lot of ways, but the commute to my desk is not one of them!

[TouringTeg]

13-15 mins (depending on traffic) to downtown Victoria.

Before moving closer to downtown my commute was about 45min - 1hr each way. I am so much happier now.

[tegra7]

Used to be 15min 4 years ago, now it's 20-25 min same route.

[AstulzerRZD]

About an hour from Richmond to Lonsdale by Car.

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[Gh0st]

About 15min-20min each way, normal 9 to 5 job from Burnaby City Hall to Market Crossing. Honestly its about a 10min drive if it wasnt rush hour traffic

Threshold about.... 1 hour I said? Use to drive to Richmond everyday on knight bridge during rush hour.... LOL

one thing about knight street bridge is that it keeps moving. even if its 1km/hr unlike some other bridges...

did the commute from Broadway and Rupert to Shell and Cambie business complex. 35-45 minutes for 2 years.

[ImportPsycho]

SW Marine dr closure added at least 20min each of my ways, because 41st turned into parking, everyday, day or night! :swear:
what is up with closing all SW neighborhood, including 49th?
They went hard core to keep out non locals from detouring around that neighborhood.
windshield decals for local traffics, and putting VPD road checks at every major intersections.
Rich folks there really doesn't want too many traffics in their precious neighborhood?

[6o4__boi]

^ wtf

local decals and VPD road check?
that's a huge fucking waste of money if true

[TouringTeg]

^ I was curious if there was decals for local traffic and came up with this:

Road work closes part of Southwest Marine Drive in Vancouver until September - British Columbia - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/road-work-closes-part-of-southwest-marine-drive-in-vancouver-until-september-1.4104548)

[quasi]

^ wtf

local decals and VPD road check?
that's a huge fucking waste of money if true

The road checks are true for sure. I had to take my son to a football tournament at UBC a few weeks back and found out about it unexpectedly and first hand.

I seldom go west of the Fraser, that really hit home like why the fuck our we even out this way, I hate this fucking place and this traffic can suck my dick. My 11 year old was the voice of reason, Dad calm down we'll go the long way it's fine if we're late. Lol, not one of my better moments.

[IfUCare]

Live near richmond center, work in south surrey.
To work 30-35 mins
From work 45-50 mins

worse ever was when there was a massive accident at massey tunne and alex fraser.

i stayed around work till 8 and it was still heavy traffic.

[!e.lo_]

From North Delta to Richmond
Car:
30-120 min (yes, if there's a few accidents, it takes about two hours)
Motorcycle:
15-20 min

Richmond to ND
Car: 30-50+ min
Motorcycle:
20-30 min

I usually takes Alex Fraser and HWY 91.
Sometimes I'll go home HOV HWY 99, HWY 17.

[6o4__boi]

The road checks are true for sure. I had to take my son to a football tournament at UBC a few weeks back and found out about it unexpectedly and first hand.

I seldom go west of the Fraser, that really hit home like why the fuck our we even out this way, I hate this fucking place and this traffic can suck my dick. My 11 year old was the voice of reason, Dad calm down we'll go the long way it's fine if we're late. Lol, not one of my better moments.


ahh...the voice of reason
still have yet to experience that burning rage of being stuck in a jam in Vancouver


I went out to lunch with my parents in South Van this weekend, late lunch too...and I thought it was gonna be a breeze

but nope
literally took me 15 minutes from my door in PoCo to Grandview exit
then 30+ fucking minutes from there to 45th and Fraser
fuck Vancouver sideways

[hal0g0dv2]

5 min
Victoria :p

[blkgsr]

Near coquitlam center to just over the 2nd narrows bridge, taking the barnet and hastings in HOV.

takes about 20-25mins to get to work, we leave at 6:20am

I leave work around 3:30pm, and we generally head straight to our gym near silvercity coquitlam right around 4pm. thankfully i'm the first exit to get onto the highway forming from dollarton so I don't have to deal with main street

[vexor]

5 minutes if I hit all green lights, 10 min if not

[Mancini]

30-35 in.
45 home.

[l2_narain]

just wanting to get a sense of how long the commute is for people on here :
(with all the congestion we're seeing here and of course on shiddy rainy days when people forget how to drive)


HOME TO WORK?

WORK TO HOME?

TRANSIT or CAR?

...and in your opinion, where is 'YOUR' threshold? i.e. if it takes more than an hour, it isn't worth it to me.


Home to work - 35 to 45 mins

Work to Home - 35 to 45 mins

If there is an accident then I stay at work doing extra work unless there's an errand I can run near my work or try to do last minute meet-up with friends nearby.

Car

There is no threshold for me. The only place I can afford is where I reside and I commute to a job I like and works out with my lifestyle choices.

[ssjGoku69]

leave @ 8:00 am: 15 minute drive
leave @ 8:10 am: 25-30 minute drive

[Skittlez160]

Argyle & 57th, Vancouver to Lougheed & 207th, Maple Ridge

Car

Morning:
Leave home at 6:55am (+/- 5mins), arrive at work 7:40am (+/- 5mins)

Afternoon:
Leave work at 5:00pm (+/- 5mins), arrive at home 6:00 (+/- 5mins)

Been doing it for 9 1/2 years. Quite the improvement after Hwy. 1 and the Pitt Meadows Bridge was upgraded. Prior to that it was quite a bit more.

[Mikoyan]

Victoria & 49th to Willingdon & Canada Way area.
Morning: ~20 minutes
Afternoon: ~25-30 minutes

+/- 5 mins or so, usually less as I'm at work by 7am, off at 3pm, so I beat most of the traffic. If I get stuck past 3, then 30-40 mins back home.

During the snow? +1hr. I've had to backtrack to Royal Oak before to avoid the traffic snarls.

[jinxcrusader]

PNE Area to/from Tsawwassen - ~30 mins with no traffic. Typically 1.5 hours with traffic (George Massey Tunnel and Knight Street Bridge)

[UFO]

Did Coquitlam around Austin and Mariner to Richmond Hospital, usually have to leave at 645am to get in just a bit before my start at 8, unless there are any accidents. Coming home at 430pm, initially took about 50 minute when we first moved to Coquitlam 2.5yrs ago. Then it hit an hr, then 1:15-1:30 even 1:45 if there is even a hint of rain on the ground. My love of the job masked how bad the commute was, I left after 3 years and the commute was a part of that decision.

I work in East Van now, commute time is typically 35- 40 minutes both ways. Don't like the job as much, but I can't imagine going back to the old commute.

[Badhobz]

West Richmond to downtown. About 35 mins if I leave at 0700. If I leave at 0800 it's closer to 55mins

[messupdude]

Car 1 min from the barracks to the squadron parking lot.

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[european]

1 hour each way. If there is any kind of back up (accident, inclement weather, speed trap) it can easily double

back when I had a job

[MattUA]

An hour and a half each way. Hopefully I can purchase a car soon to cut the commute in half.

[Ronin]

15-20 minutes, depending on traffic. 10-ish KM through Richmond...

[jeedee]

An hour and a half each way. Hopefully I can purchase a car soon to cut the commute in half.

yikes i remember the days of transit - ing for that long :heckno:

never again