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NYC has Longest avg commute: 35 minutes one way

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Rakehellion said:
Apparently your time isn't valuable.
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I value my time alone in the car, it lets me drink coffee in the morning and get to work not being an asshole and it allows me to unwind on the way home so im never an ass to my fam. I never take my work home with me cause it gone after mile 20 and run a near zero stress level
 
8 hours of sitting in an office is already enough to destroy my body physically. Adding another hour or more of sitting in a car, and I would certainly contemplate seppuku every single day.
 
At least the scenery is nice.
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tHa ShIzNiT said:
8 hours of sitting in an office is already enough to destroy my body physically. Adding another hour or more of sitting in a car, and I would certainly contemplate seppuku every single day.
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lol. Ain't that the truth. I try to stand at work as much as possible.... it's so bad to sit at a desk all day. ugh.
 
CraKaJaX said:
Since they have Long Island, NY separate from NY,NY... I assume that they are saying ~35 mins if you live in Manhattan and work in Manhattan. That seems about right. They aren't counting all the commuters from upstate or LI (including Bklyn & Queens) commuting into Manhattan under the NY,NY category.
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Yeah the LIRR is stupid busy - "With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America."

One way, my wife takes 10 minutes to drive to the station, another 45 minutes on the LIRR, then from Penn another 15 minutes on the subway to her office in Manhattan. The 45 minutes is not even that far east from Manhattan - many people do 60 minutes+. My wife does almost 3 hours a day roundtrip. Contrastingly, I just go downstairs to my office. Of course she makes double what I do too... not a stressful job, just a long commute. On the positive side, she was able to shift her hours so she does 8-4 and is home by 515pm.
 
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rh71 said:
Yeah the LIRR is stupid busy - "With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America."

One way, my wife takes 10 minutes to get to the station, another 45 minutes on the LIRR, then another 15 minutes on the subway to her office in Manhattan. The 45 minutes is not even that far east from Manhattan - many people do 60 minutes+. My wife does almost 3 hours a day roundtrip. Contrastingly, I just go downstairs to my office. Of course she makes double what I do too... not a stressful job, just a long commute.
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Yep - I believe that. My station from home is about an hour from Penn. Depends if it's an express or not. It turns into a nightmare when winter rolls around and the trains get delayed, shut down, etc. Last year they had a ridiculous amount of cars and people getting hit.. which also tends to shut the tracks down. Then you have thousands of people scrambling to find a way to/from work. My ~25 min commute is perfectly fine with me. I would really like to have yours though........... 🙁
 
JulesMaximus said:
Mine is about 35 miles one way with heavy traffic in both directions. Takes me about 50 minutes minimum... 🙁

Typical commute traffic.
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Didn't you used to bicycle? 35 miles? Or did you change jobs? Can't you lane-split that on your motorcycle?
 
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rh71 said:
I farking hate when people decide to commit suicide in the morning just before rush hour. WTF is wrong with them? So selfish.
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Honestly though, there were a lot of derailments and collisions (people & vehicles) last year than average. That also includes the Metro North tracks. I think standing in front of a train to end my existence is probably one of the last ways I would choose to go.... D:
 
CraKaJaX said:
Oh my dear god. 4 hours a day.... 5 days a week. 20 hours of your life melting away in a car every week. I'll pass....
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Driveway ->Short drive -> Train ride -> Subway -> Walk ->Office

I fill up my gas tank once every 4-5 weeks.
I do work from home 1-2 days weekly
 
vi edit said:
That really seems off. I'm guessing it's because everyone else that didn't respond is still stuck in traffic and not accounted for.
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Apparently most people who work in NYC actually live in NYC. Whereas some other areas may have a lot of suburban commuters.
 
Rakehellion said:
Apparently most people who work in NYC actually live in NYC. Whereas some other areas may have a lot of suburban commuters.
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The problem is that different people define NYC in ridiculously different ways. Folks from Buffalo may call Tarrytown NYC. People from LI consider Brooklyn and Queens "LI", though they're part of the 5 boroughs. It really depends. Haven't you seen the stupid maps people have made?

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CraKaJaX said:
The problem is that different people define NYC in ridiculously different ways. Folks from Buffalo may call Tarrytown NYC. People from LI consider Brooklyn and Queens "LI", though they're part of the 5 boroughs. It really depends. Haven't you seen the stupid maps people have made?

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Heh. I'm from Central IL which is like 2.5 hours @ 70MPH away from Chicago. Pretty much everyone asks where I was from and the answer is "Oh is that near Chicago?". Chicago is all the way up in the right hand corner of the state. There's still 400 miles of state south of it.
 
CraKaJaX said:
The problem is that different people define NYC in ridiculously different ways. Folks from Buffalo may call Tarrytown NYC. People from LI consider Brooklyn and Queens "LI", though they're part of the 5 boroughs. It really depends. Haven't you seen the stupid maps people have made?
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I'm pretty sure the writers of the article know where New York City is.
 
Anubis said:
that's a lie I sure as shit call it Soda in western NY
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Nobody in Buffalo did except for the downstate folks coming up for school. It was always pop. They also thought "a pie" for pizza was weird. Then again, their pizza blows monkey chunks so who cares.

CraKaJaX said:
The problem is that different people define NYC in ridiculously different ways. Folks from Buffalo may call Tarrytown NYC. People from LI consider Brooklyn and Queens "LI", though they're part of the 5 boroughs. It really depends.
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No shot anyone from LI would call Brooklyn or Queens part of LI! And there's a reason people from those boroughs say "we're going into LI". Many people do think of NYC as Manhattan only, but only during casual speech.
 
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I leaVe my house 6:45 get in the office by 7:35
Bus + Walk (2 ave 12 blocks)
Going home give or take 10-15 minutes more.
 
Fewer than 30% of NYC commuters are driving to work, so that's 35 minutes mostly of public transit and walking. That's a damn sight better than 35 minutes of driving.

Here in the west, where things are very spread out, a 35 minute drive is pretty common and generally not a major headache. But it's getting a lot more crowded, though, as people flee the rust belt and midwest.
 
~14 miles, 30 minutes or so. Lots of traffic lights and 35mph zones.
There's a highway, but getting to and from the highway takes awhile, and if there's a snowstorm in the area it turns into a deathtrap.



Carson Dyle said:
Fewer than 30% of NYC commuters are driving to work, so that's 35 minutes mostly of public transit and walking. That's a damn sight better than 35 minutes of driving.

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Except that is 35 minutes spent in NYC's public transit system. Most of the subway cars I was on didn't smell like urine, so there's that.
I guess it's better than driving 35 minutes in NYC, which would probably get you about 3000 feet.
 
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