Rate your (car) commute...

[Ki3r]

I live around 2 miles from work, part dual carriageway, takes me 4 minutes...its crap.

[philmots]

Excellent.. Just under 8 miles.

Takes about 2 miles to hit the B roads. Very quiet (start around 2, finish 11-12) but when you do catch someone up they're normally a 40mph dawdler. Easily dispatched with a big dose of turbocharged torque.!

[Chimune]

40 miles south on a68 to work - fast a-road /moors /views /tractors - can be epic, can be terrible.
40 miles north on a1 to home - easy and predicatable. both between 55 mins and 1:10

MG zt cdti copes with both road types very well indeed !

[Trackside Junior]

11 miles of just scenery and twisty roads. It's great, even in the Getz, so it'll be even better when I get the MX-5!

[George7]

I do a Witham to Colchester commute. It's around 13-14 miles, mostly dual carriageway (A12). It's a little boring but pretty easy. Holdups going north on the A12 in the morning are uncommon (the London bound carriageway gets clogged up fairly often though), so I can't complain really. There is an alternate route around Tiptree way. It takes a little longer but has some nice twisty bits. If I got a car like an MX5, I think that would replace the A12 route

[driverrob]

Just 3.5 miles to BCA, most of it on twisty country lane but with a good stretch of usually empty derestricted NSL straight, though a bit uneven. Excellent, if brief, sprint opportunity.

[TeaNoSugar]

45 miles each way, with at least 25 miles of great roads:

Sheffield (west)-ladybower-bamford-hope-castleton-winnats pass-sparrowpits-dove holes-buxton-leek-stoke

Once you're out of leek heading for stoke it's crap, but by then it's good to let the brakes cool down a bit.

the return trip is usually start-stop until approaching leek, then its
leek-the roaches(A53)-longnor-crowdecote-monyash-bakewell-baslow-owler bar-sheff (S.West).

I don't go to the office every day though, maybe twice a week.

Sheffield-Leek 10/10
Leek-Stoke 1/10

[andy-xr]

In the career I'm in I've never had a job where I went to an office that was in the same town I lived in. Either worked from home because it wasn't commutable or had around 30-50 miles each way

[iva cosworth]

I drive into one of the industrial areas of Croydon.......nuff said.

1/10

[thesyn]

4 miles each way in SW19, ste really!

[6potdave]

Quite crap really. Either 30/40mph roads followed by 2 miles of busy M1, or some NSL roads that never allow you to get to the NSL because of the sheer volume of idiots.. sorry traffic. All topped off with Sheffield's rush hour.

[basehead]

27 miles down a twisty B road (NSL) mostly populated by people bumbling along at 40 mph or tractors/lorries that do not pull over despite the huge queue building up behind.

[Pints]

Just under 5 miles of B-roads and roundabouts before a 35 mile motorway trundle.

Or, if I've got the time on the way home, I can take the backroads all the way. Adds a few miles to the journey and even more minutes but the journey from Bristol to Swindon can be really good fun.

[Bitzer]

Back road to J10 of the M40, down to J9, then A34 south to M4. One junction east to Theale. Or cross country from South of Oxford when there's been a crash on the A34.

58 miles of Talksport and 5live

[wiliferus]

About 5 miles of brilliant B road joy, followed by 30 miles of M4.... Good and bad.

[Willy Nilly]

It's half a mile to work, I cycle. On a nice day like today it's quite pleasant. What is less pleasant is the twunt that overtook me while I was clearly signalling right on Wednesday and the bigger twunt that tried to nip betwix me and the verge while making the same right turn, then realising he couldn't fit while he was too my left and barging me across the white line. Hopefully I will meet him one sunny day with some large piece of machinery and return the compliment.

[Gtamaddog]

25.1 miles of A-Roads (A48 mostly) along the River Severn with nice scenic views which normally I could quite easily put up with. Then about 25-30 minutes into my journey on the way into work I come to a series of three roundabouts, which I could easily cope with usually, until you take into the fact that a bus lane, stupidly laid out traffic lights, and the way the road markings are set out have ruined what should be a pretty free-flowing road even at the worst of times. Because of all of those points it means I sit in a stop-start queue pretty much every day for 15-20 minutes, sometimes not on a Friday, but every other day of the week it's guaranteed.

Probably not as much as some people have to put up with, but half of my journey (near enough) sat in a traffic jam. Hate it. Luckily on the way home there's not much to contend with even though it's rush hour, but you get all the impatient idiots who sit on your rear bumper if you don't exceed the speed limit on a road littered with speed cameras.

5/10 if it's lucky.

Edited by Gtamaddog on Friday 23 March 21:15

[OldSkoolRS]

It changes everyday as I'm a Field Engineer. Somedays it's a boring motorway cruise, sometimes a run through the countryside and days like today when it was a crawl into and out of London. I try to find different routes especially those nearer my house and then remember them (that's the hard bit at my age ) so I can go back another time in my weekend car.

[VinceFox]

Short suburban, mile or two followed by about 3 miles dual carriageway then another short suburban. The m3 oil doesnt get up to operating temp and some evenings when i start up to drive home the bloody thing chugs from being clogged up on such a short crappy journey.

Taken to using the bike as often as possible, supermoto seems to be the way forward for my commute.