Commuting times

crosstownk

Terenure to Tallaght. 25 mins on schooldays - less than 15 mins on school holidays. Return journey is 15 mins every day. I leave for work at 0830h to start at 0900h and I finish at 1745h and get home for 1800h (unless I stop for a quick one!!!)

TheNog

From Virginia, Cavan to Leixlip took me 1hr 20min in the morning. Evening travelling took 1hr 30mins. That's 3hr 50min each day, five days a week with 100 miles a day.
Too time consuming, missed my days and i was wrecked tired so i quit my job.

Oh what joy!!!!!!!!

silverside

posting wile drunk

10~15 mins cycle to work (along river bank if i feel like it)

10~15 mins to shower & change

total 25~30 mins, takes same time by train but less pleasant....

_Kaiser_

Dublin to Navan... about 35/40 mins each way by car. Love my car stereo.

thebookofbob

Wexford - North Dublin - 98 Miles each way to be exact - The Full Length of the M50 at rush hour twice daily.. done it for 8 months & I'm now bolloxed..

spacetweek

11 kilometres, 40 mins. Breaks down as follows:

Home->Stephen's Green by bike / 15 mins / 2 km
Stephen's Green->Sandyford by Luas / 22 mins / 9 km
Sandyford->work by foot / 3 mins

Sounds great and it is, at least it's certainly not a strain. However because we start at 8:15 I'm seriously considering moving even closer, like Ranelagh.

loyatemu

thebookofbob wrote:

Wexford - North Dublin - 98 Miles each to be exact - The Full Length of the M50 at rush hour twice daily.. done it for 8 months & I'm now bolloxed..

I get up at 5:15am & get home at 8:30pm
There's 72 euro a month Toll & nearly 600 a month in fuel..

I don't have a mortgage & if it wasn't for this we'd move but don't want to sacrifice the acre of land & 2000 sq ft for a 10ft square back garden & 3 bed.. we all kill each other..

you're insane!
seriously - if you've no mortgage why not move to somewhere nearer but still relatively cheap like Arklow. or get a job in Wexford - you might have to take a pay cut but you'd save yourself 8k a year in commuting costs.

What you're doing sounds like no fun at all.

Navan Junction

Kaiser2000 wrote:

Dublin to Navan... about 35/40 mins each way by car. Love my car stereo.

Jeez, when do you that? In the middle of the night?!:)

Where in Dublin? Blanch?

road_high

loyatemu wrote:

you're insane!
seriously - if you've no mortgage why not move to somewhere nearer but still relatively cheap like Arklow. or get a job in Wexford - you might have to take a pay cut but you'd save yourself 8k a year in commuting costs.

What you're doing sounds like no fun at all.

This like torture-if you want to still live in co wex, move up to gorey; only an hour (50 or 60miles?) from dublin.
I'd try and move jobs either get closer to home- you'd have a better quality of life.

road_high

Mine is Kilkenny to Athy (Co. Kildare)- 24 miles each way morning and evening.
Not too bad, around 30-35 mins usually.

chamar

Does anyone have any experience of commuting Wexford-Waterford? I'm guessing 1hr 15 mins each way.......is this insane?

loyatemu

the road is pretty good - not sure what sort of delays you'd experience in New Ross though, and taking the Ballyhack ferry is a bit of a diversion onto bad roads.

Marksie

I live about 1mile from portaloise train station, but due to irish rails transport timetables my commute goes something like this:

Portlaoise to Kildare: 35-40minutes
Kildare hazlehatch: 25-30 minutes
Hazlehatch to work 10minutes

Going back you can add an extra 10 minutes or so onto that

so overall its about 2 1/2 to 3 per day roughly

irlirishkev

Right. Those of you travelling for 2 and 3 hours each way every day.. how do you do it?? Seriously. I'm genuinely interested as to how you haven't gone mad or broken into tears.. Some say 'the time just flies by'.. but does it though, or are you just telling yourself that?

I used to commute from Greystones to Fairview. I'd leave the house at 7.40am to get a dart, which would get me into work for 9am. I found that bad enough. I simply cannot fathom spending the length of time travelling that some posters do. We spend so much time in our lives in school/at work as it is, without dedicating another 2 or 3 hours on either side to it.

These days I commute from the City Centre to Ballsbridge. Walking takes 45minutes. Cycling takes 15-20mins. If I get the bus, which I do occasionally, it takes about 20mins - 45mins depending on traffic.

I couldn't go back to a lengthy commute after experiencing the joys of living close to work. I appreciate not everyone has that luxury, but I'd go nuts. I really and truly would.

Paulj

10 min cycle in the morning
15 min cycle in the evening

haven't a clue how you guys can spend so much time each day travelling. I'd change job or where i'm living asap if i was in your boots.

gotta agree with the guys earlier saying that the weather is ok most of the time. It very rare i need wets. Is it just me or is the weather much dryer in dublin. I used to live in limerick and it seemed to rain a lot more.

road_high

chamar wrote:

Does anyone have any experience of commuting Wexford-Waterford? I'm guessing 1hr 15 mins each way.......is this insane?

Have heard of quite a few from both that commute between the two (used to work in Wexford myself for a blast). It's not too insane at all, apart from gridlock at New Ross and Waterford itself the road is not bad between the two. As someone the ferry across the Barrow estuary shaves a lot of time off the journey but it costs 10 or 11 euro/ return journey which is a lot if you're using that daily. There must be a weekly/monthlyyearly ticket for commuters in Waterford/Wexford area.

NewDubliner

30-40 minutes by bicycle from North Dublin to Dublin City centre. Awesome view of Dublin bay along the way. Drove it once, took 90 minutes.

My job's moving to Kildare, bicycle not an option then.

chamar

mfitzy wrote:

Have heard of quite a few from both that commute between the two (used to work in Wexford myself for a blast). It's not too insane at all, apart from gridlock at New Ross and Waterford itself the road is not bad between the two. As someone the ferry across the Barrow estuary shaves a lot of time off the journey but it costs 10 or 11 euro/ return journey which is a lot if you're using that daily. There must be a weekly/monthlyyearly ticket for commuters in Waterford/Wexford area.

Well the locals are picketing that ferry every week for that very reason - the don't want commuters using it. It's actually not as do-able for a commute as I thought. Big tailbacks into New Ross every day plus pretty bad Waterford traffic depending on where you need to be. I would rather commute to Dublin. At least you are moving most of the time....