Commuting - The Daily grind - Just how fast is it..

[Switch`]

I drive to work every day for 8am. I leave the house at 7.20~ and its 5.7 miles to work.
I average 8.5mph over the duration of my commute.

Where as last year I commuted 28 miles from a different house to the same location and averaged 42mph.


I could drive to and from work for a week on a tank (280 miles), but this year despite the massive distance change I can only drive to and from work for 2 weeks on a tank(114 miles), at least halving my fuel economy, Which got me thinking.

Is a longer commute (distance) worth it to increase my average mph, thus saving me fuel (and probably rent per month) or would this be a false economy due to increased wear on the vehicle?

Just a thought, and lets have your average mph's on a normal day while you're at it!

(In before ∞ mph as I work from home and it takes me NO TIME )

[Colonial]

Thought about public transport?

20 minutes on the bus for me vs 45 minutes driving.

Only works near public transport though.

[HundredthIdiot]

Scooter?

[Bonefish Blues]

A very consistent 38-44 mph ave on my commute down the M40.

[Switch`]

Public transport takes an hour plus. (fu north London) and I effectively drive a scooter now...

I was more interested in what other people's commutes were like and how they weighed up the above realities

[Agoogy]

80 miles at average of 40mph
Its those wasted minutes at at lights and motorway bottle necks that ruin it...

[Gizmo!]

14 miles. Roughly 45 mins.

Walk-tube-walk

[spikeyhead]

At the moment, a half mile walk takes eight minutes.

I've also had, Luton to Hayes (near Heathrow) 37 miles, used to average 90 mins.

A four mile trip into Dunstable, 20 mins by bicycle or 45 mins in the car.

[Hitch78]

120km/h for 90% of the journey with the other 10% probably averaging 60km/h. I have to stop at just two traffic lights on the way to work.

The ridiculous American road network they built in Dubai does have some benefits!

[Mastodon2]

16 miles in about 25 minutes during the day, when there is traffic. Finishing work at around 11pm, when the roads are pretty much empty and most drivers on NSL roads are dawdlers, way under the speed limit and easily overtaken without breaking the speed limit, or taxis (way over the speed limit, so not blocking me) I can do the 16 miles in about 18 minutes, so thats about 55mph average or so.

[mnkiboy]

I do just over 6 miles in 20 minutes, so about 20mph. Averaging low 20's MPG, which is why i'm looking for a cheap runaround at the moment.

[Cost Captain]

spikeyhead said:

At the moment, a half mile walk takes eight minutes.

I've also had, Luton to Hayes (near Heathrow) 37 miles, used to average 90 mins.

A four mile trip into Dunstable, 20 mins by bicycle or 45 mins in the car.

should have gone by plane!

[Silver940]

50miles each way, generally about 50-55mins.

[phib]

92 miles each way about 1hour 20mins no traffic can make it all the way without turning off cruise control.

Done 12,000 miles since sept average 61mph

Phib

[BlueProp]

58 miles normally takes 1hr 5 mins no matter how fast I drive - A34/M4

[bigdods]

first 71 miles A43/M1 average 53mph, last 2.9 miles takes 30 minutes. Its getting through the traffic lights and junctions thats the killer

[jon-]

Until recently it was 20 miles each way, which was anything from 40 minutes to over an hour at this time of the year.

Now it's 20cm to my desk.

Ho hum.

[_Batty_]

my O/H
11 miles, between 1hr and 1.5hrs Bath
couldn't this be done in a proper spreadsheet style format, with city and duration etc?

[benjiegsi]

Mine is 15 miles. Also a Bath run that takes over an hour. Fine unitl you hit the centre of Bath then the consumption drops rapidly.

[Rawwr]

17 miles from work, all on twisty B-roads and unclassified roads. In the car, about 35-40 minutes on a good day. On the bike, I believe the record is 14 minutes.