Rate your (car) commute...
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I travel about 7 miles from home to work in Herts, and have just found a new route, with the minimum of traffic/traffic lights and some fun twisties,roundabouts etc...
It made me realise what a cracking drive a commute can be in the right car, compared to my old 35 mile trip down the M5,which was boredom incarnate.
How do others rate their driving commute? Dread or enjoyment come 5pm?
It made me realise what a cracking drive a commute can be in the right car, compared to my old 35 mile trip down the M5,which was boredom incarnate.
How do others rate their driving commute? Dread or enjoyment come 5pm?
27 Miles door to door. First 3 miles in town. After that A roads with a mile of dual carriageway blast. If the traffic is non-existent its a fast, sweeping road than is good for making progress. If the traffic is heavy its s
te. Regularly work an extra hour just to avoid the traffic on the way home.
te. Regularly work an extra hour just to avoid the traffic on the way home.A350 Warminster to Shaftesbury and vice versa. Provided you don't get stuck behind a lorry or granny dryden, it's a good, fast flowing road. Not too technical, but you can easily maintain speed, and you rarely need to use the brakes. Overtaking spots are abundent as well which is handy, as you generally get stuck behind an idiot.
Going home, 9 minutes or so on a two lane stretch of motorway, then some nice twisty bits round the countryside. Although a bit dodgy in winter when you can hit deer like the other year. 
All in all takes just over 25 minutes. Not much fun in the Polo diesel though.
Although fingers crossed come Monday it's gonna be in a Civic Type R.
All in all takes just over 25 minutes. Not much fun in the Polo diesel though.
Although fingers crossed come Monday it's gonna be in a Civic Type R.
designforlife said:
Dread or enjoyment come 5pm?
I wouldn't go as far as dread, but I don't enjoy it very much when I'm in the car.It's 7.5 miles of suburban back roads. Long jams are actually pretty unusual, but it's just a frustrating series of minor hold ups at regular intervals and irate Londoners beeping at each other.
That's why I'm not that fussed about using a car. That sort of travel isn't really what I think of as driving.
Now in the past, however... I used to commute across Devon, where a Monday morning drive to work could be more enjoyable than the best Saturday afternoon hoon round here.
25 miles door to door. 5 miles dual carriageway, the rest a mixture of A and B roads plus a couple of miles of ring road.
Cracking fun in the MX5 with the top down on a nice day and still a good laugh in the MG ZT when it's not so nice. Looking forward to getting the track car back on the road, taking it to work and treating some of the back roads like a rally stage.
Nick
Cracking fun in the MX5 with the top down on a nice day and still a good laugh in the MG ZT when it's not so nice. Looking forward to getting the track car back on the road, taking it to work and treating some of the back roads like a rally stage.
Nick
20 miles from Ealing to Beaconsfield. The first 3 miles through Greenford with the usual twonks jay walking and broken down buses etc. Then the rest is A40 / M40 with the usual middle lane mongs, rep mobiles and tailbacks from the M40 / M25 junction. Sheer boredom.
Did see a Mustang t'other day though, four up, too, looked like they were havin' fun ! :-) And when it's Ace Cafe meet time, you often get some interesting chariots going to and fro. Scant relief from the boredom though !
Did see a Mustang t'other day though, four up, too, looked like they were havin' fun ! :-) And when it's Ace Cafe meet time, you often get some interesting chariots going to and fro. Scant relief from the boredom though !
Best I've ever had, it's a 40mph that used to be unrestricted and no speed cameras which means it's easily done at 60+ due to the road layout being designed for the original speed limit.
The only parts that slow me down are the 4 roundabouts which just makes it more fun and two traffic lights one at the start one very close to the end. I leave before 6am so it's rare to see another car for the first 8 miles 12 miles in total. In fact it's probably the best part of the day.
Sometimes I'll circle back for a missed apex.
The only parts that slow me down are the 4 roundabouts which just makes it more fun and two traffic lights one at the start one very close to the end. I leave before 6am so it's rare to see another car for the first 8 miles 12 miles in total. In fact it's probably the best part of the day.
Sometimes I'll circle back for a missed apex.
If I do drive in it's pure joy on the way home.
Southbank, London Eye, Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Park Lane, Marble Arch, Edgeware Road, Maida Vale, Queens Park, home.
In a big V8 waftmobile.
Not very Troy Queefe but I never tire of driving a great city like London.
Southbank, London Eye, Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Park Lane, Marble Arch, Edgeware Road, Maida Vale, Queens Park, home.
In a big V8 waftmobile.
Not very Troy Queefe but I never tire of driving a great city like London.
7 miles of my 3rd favorite driving road, in Wales.
Getting onto the campus to park is a nightmare though, imagine 1500 cars served only by 1 800m road thats 'just' too narrow for 2 cars to pass each other, pedestrianized in the center too and they have right of way. If they added a 10ft connecting road on the other side of their campus it'd half my commute time.
Getting onto the campus to park is a nightmare though, imagine 1500 cars served only by 1 800m road thats 'just' too narrow for 2 cars to pass each other, pedestrianized in the center too and they have right of way. If they added a 10ft connecting road on the other side of their campus it'd half my commute time.
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