Longest Commute
Daragh | April 22, 2006Irish people, especially people living in and around Dublin spend quite a lot of their time talking about traffic, the length of their commute, and how poor public transport can be (when they’re not talking about the weather that is!). Damien Mulley has been writing about a Cisco employee in the US who commutes for an average of 7 hours every day to and from work, and is interested to find out about Ireland’s longest average commute, which I’m sure is going to come from someone living down the country and working in Dublin every day. I know I personally spend just under three hours commuting every day to and from Temple Bar, let us know what your commute is either here or on Damien’s site.
Not that long ago my commute within Dublin was an hour and a half/two hours to work and it could be anything up to three hours going home.
Fair enough if I lived outside Dublin, but I live close to the city centre. God I hated it.
Rathmines to Clondalkin used to take me about an hour and a half in the mornings and more going home, depending on traffic (I will admit during school holidays, this time was generally cut by a good bit, but still!)
This wasn’t really anything to do with the fact that these suburbs are huge distances away from each other, more because there is no direct public transport link between the two, so it was generally a bus or walk into town and then a loooooooong bus journey out.
Now that I’ve moved, the bus I get is notoriously unreliable, but when it does come it’s generally about 45 minutes journey time to work and it’s direct almost to the door of my office. The evening commute can be about an hour.