Your commute...let's hear about it!

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18 miles each way = 36 miles per day

Morning: 16 miles highway, 2 miles local roads.
Evening: 2 miles local road traffic (stop and go), 16 miles highway.

Last fill-up yielded me 37mpg even though my speed on the highway is typically 70mph and I have the A/C on.
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I have:

To work: 1.5 miles through town to the freeway, 25 mph to 35 to 45 to 55. 8 miles on the freeway, 3 of which are down a 7% grade coasting in 5th gear. 1/4 mile from the offramp to the office parking lot.

From work: 1 mile or so to onramp through surface streets, then 3 miles on the flat, 3 miles up the 7% hill in 4th at 3500-4000 RPM, 2 miles on the flat again and a mile from the offramp to home.

Not much traffic. It's a decent commute.
 
3km / 2 miles each way.

less than 3 minutes.

"traffic" through the main drag ( i live on one end) can be harrowing at school dropoff time. it could add 1 minute.

i LOVE my commute.
 
My commute used to be 25 miles each way, and thanks to Toronto's brutal rush hour traffic, that trip could take as little as 30 minutes on a good day to as long as 3 hours in a bad winter storm. Most times I would find it would take me 45-50 minutes though.

I lost my job in February, and have definitely enjoyed not having to drive in rush hour! I'm hoping my next job is closer to home so I don't have to deal with that [censored] anymore. One company I'm trying to get into (a former employer) is just 2 miles from my house, so that would be ideal as I wouldn't even bother driving my car there, I'd just ride a bike or walk!
 
I still live about 9 miles from work, 25 minutes in the early morning (I beat the rush across the GNO Bridge) to 35 in the evening. Two miles to the bridge @ about 30-40 mph with a couple of lights, then three miles up and through the toll plaza and across at about 50-60.

Then I have two reasonably well-paved ways to get to the campus where I work. Either is about four miles. I generally do about 35-40 through that.

The evening commute is the same distance, but I almost always take the route along the river, @ 30-35 mph. Up the last East Bank ramp to the bridge, off at the first exit on the West Bank side, the same two miles with lights as in the morning, and I'm done.

During the Annual Insanity (i.e., Mardi Gras), I have to take another route entirely, since the street along the river is occupied in late afternoon by parades as they line up the floats. So for about ten days in late winter, my homecoming commute's a mile or so longer and about five minutes slower.
 
If I leave from the kitchen it's about 60 feet to my home office. If I go there from the living room it's another 25 feet or so.

If I happen to be out in the field playing with the dogs it's around 400 feet.
 
Mine's 65 miles and takes pretty much 1 hr exactly. It's about 25 miles on two interstate highways with the rest being a mix of state highways and Farm to Market roads. I also cross a state line if that makes me special. It certainly seems to do so for Texas DPS. Speed limit on the interstate is 70 mph once I get out of the city. Then a mix of 60, 65, and 70 on the various other roads. Additionally I have about two miles of city street driving to get to the interstate.
 
28 miles mostly highway to work. Then 10 miles to meet my brother to go to the gym. Finally 23 miles to get home. So, about 61 miles per day.
 
22 miles. Mostly 2 lane roads where I'm going against the traffic. Speeds are usually 65-75 with stops every 3-4 miles. I've made it in 20 minutes one Saturday morning around 5:30am, and it's taken me 45 because of bad traffic light timing, a train, and a couple of [censored] school buses. Overall, I'm lucky.

Of course, when it snows people's communtes triple or quadruple, but mine stays under an hour.
 
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Exactly.

I take the BMW about 80% of the time, basically whenever I don't need to stop at Lowes or the pool supply store on the way home. As far as the commute itself, 13 miles each way 50/50 hiway and city but I work the graveyard shift so traffic at 2230 is a non factor and on the way home in the morning the scoot out of town is a breeze.
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Back in the Spring, I was transferred to another office. Of course, it is further away from my house.

Old commute: 22 miles each way

New commute: 56 miles each way
 
I do about 40 miles round-trip per day.

House to freeway - 2 miles
Freeway to work - 20 miles
- Almost all moving at limit, only about 5 miles of stop & go towards the end, and then back up to speed.
Drive home - Reverse minus traffic.
 
95 miles, each way, every weekday, and some Saturdays.

30 minutes in the country and another hour on the highway into the city.

Overall average speed (including time spent at top lights and in traffic jams) is 57 MPH.

Overall fuel economy is currently 31.3 (Which is low, it's usually about 32.5, I have tried a big treatment with Lucas and several different brands of fuel, and nothing works, I'm starting to think it is the new Kumho Ecsta LX Platinum tires I recently put on).
 
10 miles city, than 65 miles at 60+ mph. Total 75 miles one way. The end of my 12 hour shift is reversed. Lather, rinse, repeat everyday every other week.
 
My work commute is brutal...

It involves me moving from wherever I happen to be in the house to the computer equipment area... also in the same house.
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