how long is your commute?

Trauma Columnist · Apr 8, 2006

15 miles, 30 minutes due to rural area.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

Roughly 8 miles - but thanks to Buffalo's brilliant traffic light system and the wonderful quality of roads can take me anywhere between 7 minutes to 25 minutes :rolleyes:

70 miles each way - an hour and forty minutes twice a day to school.
Yes, I'm exhausted. No, there's no way around it.

Do you drive the I-90 a lot? I HATE that road - probably as much as I hate roads (and drivers) in much of New Jersey. Too many idiots.... :uhoh3:

beautifulb · Apr 8, 2006

15-20 mins. Quite honestly I don't think I would want to drive any further.

Barb2000 · Apr 8, 2006

What used to take me 30 minutes, now takes me 60. This is due to the hurricanes (I live on the Gulf Coast). Construction on the roads (from Hurricane Ivan 2 years ago), is still going on, but hopefully in the next couple years, I'll be back to 30 minutes again.

SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

Roughly 8 miles - but thanks to Buffalo's brilliant traffic light system and the wonderful quality of roads can take me anywhere between 7 minutes to 25 minutes
Do you drive the I-90 a lot? I HATE that road - probably as much as I hate roads (and drivers) in much of New Jersey. Too many idiots....

Nope, starting in Albany 90 takes one west - to Buffalo. :) I'm about 100 miles north of Albany, in Ticonderoga. Depending on which of two ways I drive to school the only real highway I might hit is 87 for two exits. NCCC, in Saranac Lake. I move from a place where my commute could be like yours - Staten Island - to a place where the only traffic lights are hit are right here in Ti and then it's rural all the way. With lots of troopers. Until I moved up here I'd never been stopped for speeding in my life.

Jersey drivers are just insane. Vermonters drive me crazy, now. They never pass and never even approach the speed limit, preferring 10 miles below.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

There's just too much traffic in Jersey and the roads are a little too narrow for my liking. Probably one of the few things I really dislike about the Garden State.

And for all the snow and ice people have up here, y'd think they'da learn'd how to drive by now - 'specially on the 90. But noooooooo..... :uhoh21:

Whoever came up with the design and co-ordination for the traffic lights (especially on main St) of Buffalo needs to be shot. It's insane...

SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

I've never been to Buffalo.

The problem with ALL of the roads in that part of the northeast (Jersey, NYC, Ct) is that they were built when I was an infant, and were never designed to carry the amount of traffic they do, let alone monster SUVs.

Staten Island, where I grew up, had roads that had started out as cowpaths that were later paved. That was fine until the Verrazanno Bridge went up and the population went from 125k to half a million.

People are pretty good at driving in snow and stuff up here - but then, it really is rural, and people do stuff like wave other people in front of them. The only habit I hate up here - and maybe there's just too much traffic downstate for me to have ever noticed it - are the idiots who tailgate and won't pass even when they can. What's that all about?

unknown99, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

30 to 40 minutes

palesarah · Apr 8, 2006

60 minutes, one way, plus 5-20 minutes for the shuttle (parking is off-site). Just under 100 miles round trip. Good times.

HeatherLPN · Apr 8, 2006

7 minutes. And both my jobs are on the same road, less than 30 seconds apart. Nice after driving 1/2 hour each way for a lot less money :)

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2006

5 minutes one way. Wouldnt have it any other way. I come home for lunch and can get back within 30 minutes.

If i really wanted close to home i could work at a LTC that is maybe 3 minute walk, but i prefer an acute setting.

pickledpepperRN · Apr 8, 2006

I give myself ten minutes to get to work and another twenty to find a parking place. Working nights I am too stubborn to do the smart thing and pay for the parking lot.

I work registry sometimes and know to NEVER work at certain hospitals during the Christmas shopping season.

So does I-90 parallel the old Erie Canal?