Suburbia - Post Your Commute Time in Rush Hour

[Anonymous]

Springfield to L'Enfant. About 35-45 minutes driving slugs and leaving before 7 a.m. This is door to door:

* 10 minutes to drive to slug lot
* 5 minutes max on most days to get slugs, although usually this is less than 1 minute
* 20-30 minutes to get into the city, drop off slugs, park in my garage. It would be faster but there's traffic on the bridge once you get to DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Forgot to add: this commute is from CCDC to Foggy Bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 For this thread to be useful, posters should post approximate starting point and end point, and include waiting and walking time (from home to metro, parking lot to office etc.). For example, my "time on the metro" is about 20 minutes, but when you add in waits for the metro, to/from home and office time, it's more like 40 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 For this thread to be useful, posters should post approximate starting point and end point, and include waiting and walking time (from home to metro, parking lot to office etc.). For example, my "time on the metro" is about 20 minutes, but when you add in waits for the metro, to/from home and office time, it's more like 40 minutes.

+1. Door to door times would be most accurate. For example, my door-to-door time from Shepherd Park (DC) to my office is about 45-50 minutes (walking to metro, 18-20 min on red line, 8 min walk to office from Farragut North).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 For this thread to be useful, posters should post approximate starting point and end point, and include waiting and walking time (from home to metro, parking lot to office etc.). For example, my "time on the metro" is about 20 minutes, but when you add in waits for the metro, to/from home and office time, it's more like 40 minutes.

+1. Door to door times would be most accurate. For example, my door-to-door time from Shepherd Park (DC) to my office is about 45-50 minutes (walking to metro, 18-20 min on red line, 8 min walk to office from Farragut North).

+1 It takes me about 45 minutes via metro (door to door) from Bethesda metro to my office in Farragut North (12 minutes walk,2 minutes of wait, 22 minutes in train, 9 min to the office). My colleague who takes the metro at shady grove was telling someone he has a commute of 30 minutes. Why? Because he was only counting the time on metro--not the time driving to/from the metro station or walking to our office. His commute is more like an hour.

[Anonymous]

22302 (Alexandria) to 22201 (S. Arlington): 10-15 minutes.

When I was bailing out of private practice (15th/K) and weighing my options, the commute was a major deciding factor. My kids were then 5; being close to home / school has been a major plus in terms of quality of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potomac (right by the village): ~35min to K St

No freaking way, unless you're leaving before 6 am after 9 pm. More like an hour to an hour and a half each way

Agreed. When we lived in Potomac, a realtor swore to us that he could make it downtown in 30 min. My husband's commute to DC was more like an hour during rush hour; 30 min was only during off hours.

Yep, I do exactly this drive (Potomac Village to Farragut area) occasionally when I drop my kids off at school, and it's a solid hour on a good day.

[Anonymous]

From near the Grosvenor metro to Union Station, including walking to metro and walking from metro to office, is about 50/55 min door to door (if there are no metro issues).

[Anonymous]

Off of 123, close to the CIA (McLean 22101). Leave home around 7:15 p.m. and am into work downtown (around 14th & K) by 7:45-7:50 p.m.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 For this thread to be useful, posters should post approximate starting point and end point, and include waiting and walking time (from home to metro, parking lot to office etc.). For example, my "time on the metro" is about 20 minutes, but when you add in waits for the metro, to/from home and office time, it's more like 40 minutes.

+1. Door to door times would be most accurate. For example, my door-to-door time from Shepherd Park (DC) to my office is about 45-50 minutes (walking to metro, 18-20 min on red line, 8 min walk to office from Farragut North).

+1 It takes me about 45 minutes via metro (door to door) from Bethesda metro to my office in Farragut North (12 minutes walk,2 minutes of wait, 22 minutes in train, 9 min to the office). My colleague who takes the metro at shady grove was telling someone he has a commute of 30 minutes. Why? Because he was only counting the time on metro--not the time driving to/from the metro station or walking to our office. His commute is more like an hour.

My colleague at work doesn't include the 10 minute drive to and from the metro as part of his commute, because his wife picks him up and drops him off and he considers it leisure time he spends with her. People use funny commuting math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park to anywhere in the city, maybe 10min.

This is a lie.

More like 15-20

[Anonymous]

Fairfax City to McPherson Square, leave at 5:55 a.m and am in my garage by 6:23 - my best time ever was 23 minutes door-to-garage, but that was in the summer and I got green lights all the way.

Leave work at 3-3:30 and it's about 45 minutes home.

Rush hour either way and forget about it - easily 60-75 minutes.

I used to take Metro when it was still reliable and that was 45-50 minutes door-to-door on a good day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Off of 123, close to the CIA (McLean 22101). Leave home around 7:15 p.m. and am into work downtown (around 14th & K) by 7:45-7:50 p.m.

Similar, but closer to Tysons off 123. Maybe more like 40 minutes usually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park to anywhere in the city, maybe 10min.

This is a lie.

More like 15-20

That's an alternative fact. Just going from Takoma station to Farragut West will take you 18 minutes in the metro to Farragut North, 3 minutes to fight your way out of the station during rush hour and a 10 minute walk to Farragut West. That's 31 minutes assuming you live IN the metro station and that there's zero wait for a train (neither of which are plausible assumptions).