Suburbia - Post Your Commute Time in Rush Hour

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:North Bethesda, close to Red Line. 25 minutes to Farragut North.

Plus fifteen minutes to drive to metro stop from house

Actually, I live 5 minutes from the metro, so with the drive I'm doing a 30 minute commute (assuming no metro delays which, you know, assumes a lot these days).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Near Williamsburg Blvd in North Arlington to Mt Vernon Square. Depending on when I leave and the grace of the gods as good as 30 mins and as bad as 75 minutes in the morning but usually 45 minutes. Evening rush tends to be worse.

Similar commute, similar driving time.

[Anonymous]

I hesitate to post this, BUT...I have an 8-minute driving commute from my home in Takoma Park to my office in NW DC. Yes, I live 2.5 miles from my office. I am about to start cycling to work, too, even though it will take longer. Either way, it's all good.

[Anonymous]

A quiet neighborhood in Falls Church on the east side of Seven Corners. 25 minutes drive (faster than metro) from basically the middle of GW campus in a typical 5 pm rush hour. 15 minutes without traffic. Fantastic commute. However, not great schools filled with ESOL students who can't meet state standards.

[Anonymous]

S. Arlington off Columbia Pike to Rosslyn. A joke of a commute that, comically, varies wildly by the day - but probably 20-25 minutes on average leaving at 8:30-8:45. The drive is like 7 minutes without traffic but getting in and out of Rosslyn at rush hour is a straight up nightmare that has become progressively worse. I have had this few mile commute take 45 minutes and even longer on occasion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A quiet neighborhood in Falls Church on the east side of Seven Corners. 25 minutes drive (faster than metro) from basically the middle of GW campus in a typical 5 pm rush hour. 15 minutes without traffic. Fantastic commute. However, not great schools filled with ESOL students who can't meet state standards.

Which way do you cross the river -- Memorial Bridge to Rt 50?

[Anonymous]

Great Falls (west of village) to tysons. Takes ~30 mins in peak rush hour, only 15mins during the summer though

[mjsmith]

Wolftrap to Georgetown 30 min in 40 going home not on the toll road or 66

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A quiet neighborhood in Falls Church on the east side of Seven Corners. 25 minutes drive (faster than metro) from basically the middle of GW campus in a typical 5 pm rush hour. 15 minutes without traffic. Fantastic commute. However, not great schools filled with ESOL students who can't meet state standards.

Which way do you cross the river -- Memorial Bridge to Rt 50?

Theodore Roosevelt Bridge unless I'm coming from Alexandria, in which case I take Memorial Bridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lower McLean to Penn Quarter: About 40 minutes in rush hour driving.

What route? This is my commute but it normally takes at least an hour unless it's a Monday or Friday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A quiet neighborhood in Falls Church on the east side of Seven Corners. 25 minutes drive (faster than metro) from basically the middle of GW campus in a typical 5 pm rush hour. 15 minutes without traffic. Fantastic commute. However, not great schools filled with ESOL students who can't meet state standards.

Which way do you cross the river -- Memorial Bridge to Rt 50?

Theodore Roosevelt Bridge unless I'm coming from Alexandria, in which case I take Memorial Bridge.

Do you drive in during morning rush hour? How long is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:S. Arlington off Columbia Pike to Rosslyn. A joke of a commute that, comically, varies wildly by the day - but probably 20-25 minutes on average leaving at 8:30-8:45. The drive is like 7 minutes without traffic but getting in and out of Rosslyn at rush hour is a straight up nightmare that has become progressively worse. I have had this few mile commute take 45 minutes and even longer on occasion.

Can you leave earlier? My husband has a similar commute and leaves closer to 7:30 am most days, and it's not nearly as bad at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also I think people are not truly calculating door to door. They'll count the time they are on the metro only or only once they're on the highway

+1.

50 minutes-Chevy Chase MD to office near Farragut west
15 min to walk to metro
25 min on metro to Farragut north
10 min Farragut north metro to office

[Anonymous]

Some of these posts are laughable. They're either not truly rush hour, or they are ideal times vs average, or they aren't counting door to door, or they aren't counting waiting times (e.g., at Metro platform).

I live in CCDC and during actual rush hour (9am), now that RCP is closed for much of my route, door to door (including parking my car in my work garage, waiting for the elevator, and walking the 1.5 blocks to my office)--30 minutes. Ideal time: just under 25. When there's a backup--up to 45. When some idiot truck driver gets his tractor trailer stuck under a bridge on RCP--1.5 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:North Bethesda, close to Red Line. 25 minutes to Farragut North.

Plus fifteen minutes to drive to metro stop from house

Actually, I live 5 minutes from the metro, so with the drive I'm doing a 30 minute commute (assuming no metro delays which, you know, assumes a lot these days).

Doesn't it take you time to park and walk into the metro? And time to walk from Farragut North to the office? I live near Friendship Heights metro, walking distance from the metro, and it doesn't take me less than 40 minutes on a good day once you add in the time to get out of Farragut North Station (crowds and escalator) and walk a few minutes to the office.