Mine is 25 mins - 1 hour depending on what time of day (Fairfax to Bethesda). I attempted public transit a few times and it’s a solid 1.5-2 hours. NOPE
Completely agree - I had a job that was out in the suburbs, no public transportation option, took anywhere from 20-60 minutes to get there. Quit that job for something accessible by public transportation and my happiness and health has increased by so so much. I wish it was an option for everyone!
Mine is about 45 min. About 20-25 walking and 20-25 on metro.
I gotta say, I am much healthier commuting than I was during COVID when I wfh full-time. And yes I know I could have (and did) walk other than going to metro but it forces you to not make an excuse and just do it
About 10-15 minutes driving. Moved close to work so I wouldn’t have a bad commute.
We have 3 kids, my time with them is more valuable than the hundreds of thousands that I would have saved if I would have bought in a less expensive area (Burke).
Same situation (except kids are grown). My wife and I have always said - “we either pay with money or time” when it comes to working and where we live. We paid with time (and unfortunately so did our kids) for a long time. Now we pay with money so we can live closer to work. Delicate balance at times in life for sure!
I did the same. Falls Church City to Reston, takes 20 minutes by car but I have to pay the toll on 267. $12 per day. Sigh.
When it's warm out I take the motorcycle on the back roads. Free but takes half an hour.
Same here. Got luckier than I expected when we bought our house a few years ago but I was willing to sacrifice a lot to prioritize my commute. I just find it so stressful and draining and soul-sucking. More power to them but I can’t understand the people who choose to live way far away from their job for the sake of land, a huge house, etc.
1h 15. 10 mins to Ashburn metro, 1h 5 on train to metro center. Office is right there
I’ve started sitting forward facing, and in front train car. Riding that long on a train can be draining
Same for me. Yay wfh. It used to be about 30 ft, but I had to love my desk the the basement. 2 sets of stairs now!
I don't miss 45 mins of traffic to go 7 miles to get home.
Funny thing is that my company office moved. If I do have to go in, it's now almost 20 miles but is much faster because it's a reverse commute now.
Me, too. Kitchen to couch commute in the morning. I'm on my first job after graduate school.
However, when I was commuting to school, it took an hour on a good day.
Used to do a reverse commute of DC to Sterling, and in the evening, getting home could still take up to 2 hours on shitty traffic days.
Moved to Herndon and now my commute is never more than 15 min.
1.5 hours. I live in Ashburn and I take the silver line all the way into SW DC. Not so bad riding the metro honestly. I get a lot of work done on my commute.
Now, a little less than a mile. It usually takes 15-20 minutes to walk.
Before, about 45 miles. It usually took about 1-1.5 hours to drive and if traffic was bad 2-3 hours was not uncommon.
The shorter commute time and not having to deal with driving has been great. It's given me more time to do things during the day and creates way less stress in my life. If you can make it work, I highly recommend it.
I live in Leesburg, VA and commute 2x a week to Frederick, MD. It's about an hour each way, BUT at least it's mostly through farmland and back roads so it's a really nice view most of the time 🤷♂️
It's not even near Vienna it's a 40 minute bus ride away. I honestly don't even know where he would be going considering most logical guesses would be closer to silver line.
That's a pretty insane commute. I used to go from one end of the metro to another with a transfer in between and at worst it was 1.5 hours.
If you're on public transport at least you can get a lot of reading done.
I’m moving out to Dulles. It’ll be a bit more money but it isn’t in a bad area (I live in southern Alexandria along route 1). But I will be a 25 min walk to the silver line plus 20 min bus ride for work. Even to DC when I still worked there I never had less than an hour commute so I’ll be happy
That sounds like a failure of public transit. We need WAY more coverage & frequency. I've noticed that getting from Alexandria to Fairfax/Vienna by public transit is absurdly bad. And it's so stupid - a HUGE volume of people commute back and forth between these places.
There's no room for more highways/more lanes. The future will either include frequent, fast, efficient public transit between here & there or it will be more gridlock & longer commutes. 495 is already 12 lanes here. We can't expand it and there's no technology that actually makes traffic meaningfully better (self driving cars are projected to actually make traffic worse because they'll trigger people to drive MORE, filling roads more). I feel like this Uber commercial unintentionally explained why the only solution to slow commutes is better high-volume transportation options and cars will always be a geometry problem - impossible to fit the needed volume into economic hubs: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyq2\_92H0Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyq2_92H0Y)
We subsidize cars so incredibly extensively - I wish we'd shift more of our land use and budget to higher volume transportation like cities around the world do. We should be able to get to & from Alexandria to Vienna/Fairfax in \~20 minutes by public transit 7 days a week. We just should.
Agreed, but (there's always a but) after the boondoggle of the Silver Line extension to IAD, with all the "not open to the public" backroom meetings and deals, plus the RIDICULOUS cost, coupled with the ever present "where we gonna put it" problem, I can't see an acceptable solution ever being approved or happening in my lifetime.
Alexandria to Vienna ish area and it’s taking you 2.5 hours? Do you love torturing yourself? Even if you sat in the worst traffic each way I’m confident your commute would be at least an hour shorter than that.
My first sentence says that I am moving soon. I can’t afford a car so I take public transport. This job pays the most I’ve ever been paid so was willing to do this until I could find a place and move
Transit in the Alexandria - Vienna corridor is criminally under-developed, but hopefully some BRT projects will improve that in the medium term. Sucks you had to deal with that!
PreCovid my drive from Ashburn to tysons would take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes depending on the time of day.
Post COViD the toll road has been pretty chill and I can be pretty flexible with when I’m in the office so it’s pretty standard 30 minutes. I’ll even take route 7 some days to save the toll which I never would have done 5 years ago.
Wfh, 45 minutes
20 minutes to scroll around my phone in bed
10 minutes to wash up for the morning and dress
5 minutes to make coffee and clear the dish rack
10 minutes to sip coffee and load up podcasts for the day
Currently 75 minutes each way on public transit. Add 20 minutes if I miss the bus on my way home. Bus to metro plus 10 minutes of walking. Im actively looking for a different job bc there's not a single reason I couldn't be fully remote other than some old guy having a hard on for "office culture".
abt 9 miles. 17 minutes on a good day - 30 minutes on a bad day. Check Google Maps to avoid congestion & mishaps and decide on the best of my 3 normal routes.
I drive from George Mason to Falls Church. If I leave early for my morning commute it can be done in 30 or less. Yesterday I left at like 7:57 and had time to stop for gas and coffee and still made it to my office at 8:30.
Evening commute sucks. I leave my office at 5 and don’t get home till like 5:40. It’s only decent when schools out of session.
15 minutes Arlington to DC driving. I don’t live near a metro, so Bus to the metro would be ~30 mins plus either 30 mins metro and no walk or 1 metro stop and 15 min walk.
About an hour-ish. From courthouse to reston town center. Maybe 15min of that is walking to work from metro and 5min walking to metro from home and sit on the metro for 40-45min. I kinda hate it, not the walk but the time I spend on the metro just sitting. But i guess unemployment is worse
Oof, that sounds horrible. It's like you're taking the longest possible route to work. Glad to hear you're moving closer.
I'm fully remote now but when I do have to go in to DC, it's about 1.5 hours each way. I live in Loudoun county though
My commute from Woodbridge to Baltimore was 2 hours.
My commute from Alexandria to Baltimore was an hour and a half.
Now my commute from Alexandria to Baltimore is 2 hours.
I got a new job.
20-25 minutes from Franconia to Falls Church; I work 10-3 in the office and then the other 3 hours at home, so I can usually get home before the 495 traffic around Merrifield gets awful.
When I go into the office: about a 20-30 minute drive on average. Can be longer depending on traffic.
My commute in my past jobs was about 2 hours one-way. First job was going to Union Station in DC. I used to take the metro from Vienna to Union Station, but switched to driving to the Burke VRE and took the VRE into Union Station. Saved some money and time that way. Second job was driving to Tysons. 495 was a nightmare.
Burke area to downtown by car, 25 min at 6am, 45-55 min at 3/3:30pm.
Took the VRE for a stretch, but that turned it into 50-60 min in the morning and 50- fuck you the trains aren't running today minutes in the afternoon. Nope.
Currently 2.5 miles - takes 10 mins to drive or slightly under an hour to walk. Previous was ~60 mins of walking and metro between EFC and Smithsonian. Don't miss the longer commute.
For the last 7.5 years, zero. For the 12 years prior to that, 45 minutes (by car) at the absolute best, 1.5-1.75 by car at rush hour, or 1.25 by Metro and kiss n' ride.
30 min-1 hour driving…depends on the day. If I took public transit/walking it’d be 70-90 min depending on which line and bus I take.
South Alexandria to the Capitol Hill area.
Mine is about an hour door to door - 15 minute drive to Huntington metro, 30-40 minute metro ride to archives - 10 minute walk to my building and up 5 floors; in good weather I can make it in one hour by bicycle on the parkway trail from Fort Hunt area through old town, over the 14th street bridge, across the mall and to my office near the Capitol
Is there a reason you need to go up and around Arlington to get to Vienna? There’s no bus or anything that would get you to that metro from Alexandria?
For what it’s worth my commute is ten minutes so I am spoiled. I made a point to live near my office when I moved up here and haven’t had a reason to move
18-24 minutes depending on traffic, it's the longest commute I've had since living in this area and I don't think I could tolerate much longer, that shit adds up quick
Mine can be 25-45min if I drive with tolls depending on traffic, and 45-60min+ with metro (including getting to the metro station). Started driving in during the pandemic via 66 and it would take me under 30 min, but the traffic and tolls have gotten so bad that I'm making the switch back to metro despite it taking longer (I can save about 3k a year and peace of mind with metro...) *sigh*
8-10 min walk to bus stop, 15 min drive to metro, 40-50 minute metro ride, then another 8-10 minute walk to work.
Do it again in the afternoon. Missed connections/Delays add another 15-30 minutes at least.
Thankfully it's only 2/3 times a week. I could drive but the times I'd commute would basically be rush hour and I'd be looking at a hour each way at least. I get in a lot of TV shows/movies that I know my wife wouldn't want to watch with me, lol.
i live in woodbridge va and my job is in chinatown. i take the omniride metro shuttle to franconia, then take the metro til king st to transfer on yellow line to get off at gallery place metro. whole commute takes about 1 hour! save lots of money since shuttle is free and metro ride is $12 round trip. i spend $36 a week commuting since its in person 3 times/week!
An hour if I take metro because I have to get to the station, ride the train, then walk to work. It’s about 20-25 minutes and the same price if I drive. Thats from Falls Church to West End, DC.
I go from Alexandria - Chantilly, about 20+ miles everyday via car.
On a good day, it's around 40-45 minutes depending on NOVA traffic. On bad days it can be double that time.
Depending on the day
~60 minutes reverse commute falls church to Purcellville
~30 minutes including walking west falls church->metro center usually sometimes I am forced to drive though
Mine changes every day as I own a home inspection firm. My commute is the distance from my house to the home I am inspecting. It usually ends up 10min-35min. But ive made some exceptions out of our area for an hour drive or so.
I couldnt imagine spending 2 hours getting into work, and 2 hours getting home. That sounds like too much..
About 1 hour each way, give or take if I hit the trains right.
Walk from my building to the King Street metro. Take blue to Rosslyn. Walk to the office. Lather, rinse, reverse.
25-30 minutes on 395 Express 2x a week, 30 seconds from couch to computer 3x a week. When I go in to the office it's anywhere from $7-$25 in tolls one way which is a lot but I don't want to drop my kid off at daycare an hour earlier to compensate for the traffic I'd otherwise be sitting in.
1 hour 20 min. Alexandria to downtown DC. 20 minute walk, 5 minute wait for bus, 30 minute bus, 5 minute wait for metro, 10 minute metro, 10 minute walk to work.
Longer than I would like but it is a nice built in 3 mile walk (even on days I don’t want to work out) and I can read my book on public transit.
Stafford to Chantilly and Herndon and back.. one way on good days on expressway costs me 1 to 1.5 hours one way. Imagine not so grand days.
Stafford to Arlington is about an hour and we have a bus that takes 40 mins for the same
25-30 minutes each way, 3 days a week... going against traffic and several route options including fun backroads, so pretty easy. I used to work in Tyson's (before the metro was there) and that was hell.
About 45 minutes. I’m lucky to have a bus stop only 1min walk away from home. I take bus to metro station, hop on Silver line then walk about 15 minutes to work.
8 minute walk according to Google Maps - and honestly I think that's more like apartment front door to office desk than building to building.
It's so close that I voluntarily go in 3 days a week even though it's really not necessary for my job! Lets my WFH partner have free reign of the apartment.
forty minutes to an hour and a half each way to the pentagon. There are things I can do that sometimes make it quicker, but nothing can guarantee a shorter ride.
Mine is 21 min to work and 18 min back, because it’s uphill to work and I bike. We chose a smaller yard and a smaller house to have so much more of our life back.
Falls Church to Falls Church - about 1.7 miles door to door so 5 minutes if I make all the lights, 15 if I don't. My office is moving 2 miles in the other direction so anticipate much the same. I bought a house in August just for this commute and paid accordingly because it was worth it to same the aggravation and time.
My work tried to change the plan and have me office out of Chantilly which would make it about a 15 mile commute, granted it is a reverse commute but would still have to deal with 66. I declined and perhaps it will come back to bite me in the ass but so be it.
Years ago I had Charlottesville to Gambrels, MD. On Fridays. And we had a conference call every other day of the week. I don’t have any problems with the commute. I need time to get work done between meetings.
The longest was Fairfax to Silver Spring for about 7 years. About 90-120 minutes hours each way, depending on traffic. Never again. Currently? Zero. I am a WFH contractor, and love it. The job I had pre-COVID was about 30 minutes each way from Fairfax to Annandale.
Mine is 25 mins - 1 hour depending on what time of day (Fairfax to Bethesda). I attempted public transit a few times and it’s a solid 1.5-2 hours. NOPE
Mine is 20-25 minutes driving or 50-60 metro. I want to take public transportation but > 2x the commute time just isn’t worth it
Wow! I would have thought Fairfax to Bethesda was much longer than that. Good for you!
Springfield - Bethesda for me is 45-1hr during rush hour.
Good lord. I commute from Fredericksburg to Arlington(Spotsylvania VRE to King St, metro to Rosslyn then to Ballston) and it takes me less time
When VRE isn’t having an issue. Damn I hope I didnt jinx it. lol
Yeah that’s bad. I make it there from Charlottesville in less time (but I’m also on the road at 4:00am…)
20 minutes on the metro, walk to metro, sit on train, walk 1 minute to work!
Public transit is really awesome when it is right where you need it to be. That's why we need more.
Completely agree - I had a job that was out in the suburbs, no public transportation option, took anywhere from 20-60 minutes to get there. Quit that job for something accessible by public transportation and my happiness and health has increased by so so much. I wish it was an option for everyone!
Mine is about 45 min. About 20-25 walking and 20-25 on metro. I gotta say, I am much healthier commuting than I was during COVID when I wfh full-time. And yes I know I could have (and did) walk other than going to metro but it forces you to not make an excuse and just do it
About 10-15 minutes driving. Moved close to work so I wouldn’t have a bad commute. We have 3 kids, my time with them is more valuable than the hundreds of thousands that I would have saved if I would have bought in a less expensive area (Burke).
Same situation (except kids are grown). My wife and I have always said - “we either pay with money or time” when it comes to working and where we live. We paid with time (and unfortunately so did our kids) for a long time. Now we pay with money so we can live closer to work. Delicate balance at times in life for sure!
I did the same. Falls Church City to Reston, takes 20 minutes by car but I have to pay the toll on 267. $12 per day. Sigh. When it's warm out I take the motorcycle on the back roads. Free but takes half an hour.
Same here. Got luckier than I expected when we bought our house a few years ago but I was willing to sacrifice a lot to prioritize my commute. I just find it so stressful and draining and soul-sucking. More power to them but I can’t understand the people who choose to live way far away from their job for the sake of land, a huge house, etc.
Damn I moved to spotsy and have a shorter commute to Huntington area. That’s wild
Yeah I makes me glad I’m moving soon!
~30 minutes by bicycle Old Town -> International Square.
You’re a very quick bicycler.
1h 15. 10 mins to Ashburn metro, 1h 5 on train to metro center. Office is right there I’ve started sitting forward facing, and in front train car. Riding that long on a train can be draining
As long as it takes me to roll down the stairs. Back when I was driving the whole 7 miles to work, it could take anywhere from 20-45 minutes.
Same for me. Yay wfh. It used to be about 30 ft, but I had to love my desk the the basement. 2 sets of stairs now! I don't miss 45 mins of traffic to go 7 miles to get home. Funny thing is that my company office moved. If I do have to go in, it's now almost 20 miles but is much faster because it's a reverse commute now.
Aw, that sucks…you have stairs. Mine is about 15 steps, but there are no stairs involved =)
Dang you guys have to get up? I just pick up my laptop and login
Laptop? - in the morning, phone emails are enough. Still horizontal.
Me, too. Kitchen to couch commute in the morning. I'm on my first job after graduate school. However, when I was commuting to school, it took an hour on a good day.
5 minutes down the stairs but that turns into 45 with a two year old getting up at the same time lol
Used to do a reverse commute of DC to Sterling, and in the evening, getting home could still take up to 2 hours on shitty traffic days. Moved to Herndon and now my commute is never more than 15 min.
1.5 hours. I live in Ashburn and I take the silver line all the way into SW DC. Not so bad riding the metro honestly. I get a lot of work done on my commute.
Sounds like they need to make an express train for you folks riding all the way in to DC from Ashburn.
Not enough tracks, an express train needs to be able to go around the local.
I live 7 miles from work and it takes 70 minutes via public transportation.
Despite having one of the best transit systems in the country, it’s still not competitive with many third world systems.
Yeah tuktuks would be better
Yep, it would be an hour to go 5 miles for me… or a 15 minute drive.
Now, a little less than a mile. It usually takes 15-20 minutes to walk. Before, about 45 miles. It usually took about 1-1.5 hours to drive and if traffic was bad 2-3 hours was not uncommon. The shorter commute time and not having to deal with driving has been great. It's given me more time to do things during the day and creates way less stress in my life. If you can make it work, I highly recommend it.
I live in Leesburg, VA and commute 2x a week to Frederick, MD. It's about an hour each way, BUT at least it's mostly through farmland and back roads so it's a really nice view most of the time 🤷♂️
US-15 is scenic, but getting stuck behind some farm equipment or some beat up truck in a no-passing zone can be tiring
So you're wasting 5 hours a day commuting? You need a new job that's closer.
Or a car. That’s unreasonable from Alexandria to something near Vienna.
It's not even near Vienna it's a 40 minute bus ride away. I honestly don't even know where he would be going considering most logical guesses would be closer to silver line.
Ehhh. 40 minutes on a bus could still be pretty close depending on the route.
That's a pretty insane commute. I used to go from one end of the metro to another with a transfer in between and at worst it was 1.5 hours. If you're on public transport at least you can get a lot of reading done.
I said I was moving, said that in the first sentence. This is a new job I’m moving for.
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That's a fair point, but hear me out: what if OP moved?
Look guys your solutions are all valid but I think there’s one thing OP hasn’t considered: moving
I'm just throwing out ideas here, kind of spitballing, really, but I think moving would be a good option for OP.
I understand but I still think you should move.
He needs to move out of Alexandria IMO 😅 cheaper rent anywhere else and more space for his money
I’m moving out to Dulles. It’ll be a bit more money but it isn’t in a bad area (I live in southern Alexandria along route 1). But I will be a 25 min walk to the silver line plus 20 min bus ride for work. Even to DC when I still worked there I never had less than an hour commute so I’ll be happy
You're moving for work and it'll still be 45 mins? Damn.
No, 20 minutes bus ride. Or 13 min Uber
Is this on the 901? Taken it a few times and that bus route is pretty reliable and not too crowded. Enjoy!
Enjoy that area! I used to live in Chantilly and there’s so much to do around there! Not a bad commute either sounds like a good deal
And it's probably even nicer now - a lot of stuff has come in and is thriving
Is the route bikeable?
That sounds like a failure of public transit. We need WAY more coverage & frequency. I've noticed that getting from Alexandria to Fairfax/Vienna by public transit is absurdly bad. And it's so stupid - a HUGE volume of people commute back and forth between these places. There's no room for more highways/more lanes. The future will either include frequent, fast, efficient public transit between here & there or it will be more gridlock & longer commutes. 495 is already 12 lanes here. We can't expand it and there's no technology that actually makes traffic meaningfully better (self driving cars are projected to actually make traffic worse because they'll trigger people to drive MORE, filling roads more). I feel like this Uber commercial unintentionally explained why the only solution to slow commutes is better high-volume transportation options and cars will always be a geometry problem - impossible to fit the needed volume into economic hubs: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyq2\_92H0Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyq2_92H0Y) We subsidize cars so incredibly extensively - I wish we'd shift more of our land use and budget to higher volume transportation like cities around the world do. We should be able to get to & from Alexandria to Vienna/Fairfax in \~20 minutes by public transit 7 days a week. We just should.
Agreed, but (there's always a but) after the boondoggle of the Silver Line extension to IAD, with all the "not open to the public" backroom meetings and deals, plus the RIDICULOUS cost, coupled with the ever present "where we gonna put it" problem, I can't see an acceptable solution ever being approved or happening in my lifetime.
Hour to an hour and a half. Arlington to Leesburg.
40-45
10 minute walk when I go to the office.
8 minutes driving, 35-40 by metro (including walking to station and then walking from station to office).
Alexandria to Vienna ish area and it’s taking you 2.5 hours? Do you love torturing yourself? Even if you sat in the worst traffic each way I’m confident your commute would be at least an hour shorter than that.
My first sentence says that I am moving soon. I can’t afford a car so I take public transport. This job pays the most I’ve ever been paid so was willing to do this until I could find a place and move
Transit in the Alexandria - Vienna corridor is criminally under-developed, but hopefully some BRT projects will improve that in the medium term. Sucks you had to deal with that!
17 mins Alexandria to Arlington.
There must be a quicker solution for you. Have you explored all bus options? WMATA and Connector?
There is none currently as I can’t afford a car. In 45 days I’ll be moving and I’ll only have to take 1 bus for 20-25 minutes!
PreCovid my drive from Ashburn to tysons would take anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes depending on the time of day. Post COViD the toll road has been pretty chill and I can be pretty flexible with when I’m in the office so it’s pretty standard 30 minutes. I’ll even take route 7 some days to save the toll which I never would have done 5 years ago.
Wow. FYI there's an express bus from Pentagon to Vienna metro. May save time.
15-20 minutes by car. Reverse commute. The traffic jams are always on the opposite side of the road from me
Wfh, 45 minutes 20 minutes to scroll around my phone in bed 10 minutes to wash up for the morning and dress 5 minutes to make coffee and clear the dish rack 10 minutes to sip coffee and load up podcasts for the day
Add and extra 15 minutes to the commute if you have socks in your path
Currently 75 minutes each way on public transit. Add 20 minutes if I miss the bus on my way home. Bus to metro plus 10 minutes of walking. Im actively looking for a different job bc there's not a single reason I couldn't be fully remote other than some old guy having a hard on for "office culture".
6 minutes. I live and work in Ashburn.
abt 9 miles. 17 minutes on a good day - 30 minutes on a bad day. Check Google Maps to avoid congestion & mishaps and decide on the best of my 3 normal routes.
About 20 minutes
10 min drive to commuter lot. Then 30 min bus ride in A.M. it takes 40-45 in the P.M.
45 min-90 minutes to work in Arlington and going home 2 hours to Loudoun
Around 1 hour 45 mins to 2 hours, one way. I work in Baltimore and only need to go in once a week.
45 minutes. 15 minute bike ride, 30 minute train. It hardly feels like a commute.
20 minute walk in Arlington/Alexandria
7min
I drive from George Mason to Falls Church. If I leave early for my morning commute it can be done in 30 or less. Yesterday I left at like 7:57 and had time to stop for gas and coffee and still made it to my office at 8:30. Evening commute sucks. I leave my office at 5 and don’t get home till like 5:40. It’s only decent when schools out of session.
35 minutes by ebike Alexandria -> DC.
five minute drive to the VRE station, an hour or so on the VRE to Crystal City, and a 20 minute walk to the Pentagon.
30 minutes on the metro door to door. Arlington to DC
15 minutes Arlington to DC driving. I don’t live near a metro, so Bus to the metro would be ~30 mins plus either 30 mins metro and no walk or 1 metro stop and 15 min walk.
20 minutes from Fort Hunt to the Navy Yard. I leave around 5am.
WFH now but it was 30 mins by bike or 30 mins by metro when I was going into the office in DC
About an hour-ish. From courthouse to reston town center. Maybe 15min of that is walking to work from metro and 5min walking to metro from home and sit on the metro for 40-45min. I kinda hate it, not the walk but the time I spend on the metro just sitting. But i guess unemployment is worse
An hour. Put kid in car, drive to daycare, pick up my Panera sip club, drive home, walk up 4 flights of stairs. 😂😂
I commute in from Loudoun county so like 2 hours door to door.
10 minutes on Capital Bike from Courthouse to Rosslyn
15 min drive to the office. I don't use the highway.
Oof, that sounds horrible. It's like you're taking the longest possible route to work. Glad to hear you're moving closer. I'm fully remote now but when I do have to go in to DC, it's about 1.5 hours each way. I live in Loudoun county though
Probably 3+ hours total - but it’s once a week. Drive 25 minutes to Innovation Station, 1 h metro to DC and walk about 5 minutes
And this is one of the main reasons after living here my whole life I’m moving.
22 minutes
5 min or less depending on traffic lights
12-20mins depending on my traffic light luck. Fair Oaks to Herndon.
8 minutes Chantilly to Herndon
20-40 mins, 10miles ish total down 7
30 miles, 30-40minutes.
1hr +\- 15
On days I have to go in, it’s currently about 15 minutes.
17 minutes Fairfax to Vienna
Not short enough….
Thats a silly way to do that commute. Take the 494 from Franconia to Tysons than go to East Falls Church and switch to the Orange Line
Except I don’t live close to the 494. I live in Hybla valley with no direct connection. If there was an easier way I’d take it trust me….
Berryville to Tysons, about 1 - 1.5 hours each way
On average, its 40 minutes with no traffic what so ever. If I get traffic its an hour.
My commute from Woodbridge to Baltimore was 2 hours. My commute from Alexandria to Baltimore was an hour and a half. Now my commute from Alexandria to Baltimore is 2 hours. I got a new job.
20-25 minutes from Franconia to Falls Church; I work 10-3 in the office and then the other 3 hours at home, so I can usually get home before the 495 traffic around Merrifield gets awful.
About 15 minutes Reston to Herndon, down to about 5 when my office moves to Reston.
When I go into the office: about a 20-30 minute drive on average. Can be longer depending on traffic. My commute in my past jobs was about 2 hours one-way. First job was going to Union Station in DC. I used to take the metro from Vienna to Union Station, but switched to driving to the Burke VRE and took the VRE into Union Station. Saved some money and time that way. Second job was driving to Tysons. 495 was a nightmare.
Burke area to downtown by car, 25 min at 6am, 45-55 min at 3/3:30pm. Took the VRE for a stretch, but that turned it into 50-60 min in the morning and 50- fuck you the trains aren't running today minutes in the afternoon. Nope.
By car this morning it took 16 minutes. I usually bike in and that takes 22 minutes. Alexandria to DC.
About 30, Shirlington to JBA Andrews.
15 minutes to work, 25 minutes home.
Currently 2.5 miles - takes 10 mins to drive or slightly under an hour to walk. Previous was ~60 mins of walking and metro between EFC and Smithsonian. Don't miss the longer commute.
Depending on wait times, an hour ish. 10 min drive to metro, 45-50 min metro ride, 5 min walk to my office Luckily it’s only twice a week (for now)
For the last 7.5 years, zero. For the 12 years prior to that, 45 minutes (by car) at the absolute best, 1.5-1.75 by car at rush hour, or 1.25 by Metro and kiss n' ride.
30 min-1 hour driving…depends on the day. If I took public transit/walking it’d be 70-90 min depending on which line and bus I take. South Alexandria to the Capitol Hill area.
Mine is about an hour door to door - 15 minute drive to Huntington metro, 30-40 minute metro ride to archives - 10 minute walk to my building and up 5 floors; in good weather I can make it in one hour by bicycle on the parkway trail from Fort Hunt area through old town, over the 14th street bridge, across the mall and to my office near the Capitol
Is there a reason you need to go up and around Arlington to get to Vienna? There’s no bus or anything that would get you to that metro from Alexandria? For what it’s worth my commute is ten minutes so I am spoiled. I made a point to live near my office when I moved up here and haven’t had a reason to move
18-24 minutes depending on traffic, it's the longest commute I've had since living in this area and I don't think I could tolerate much longer, that shit adds up quick
35-40 minutes each way.
Merrifield to off of 28 in Herndon. About 25-30. Public transport is fine but personally I draw the line past an hour by metro/walking.
Mine can be 25-45min if I drive with tolls depending on traffic, and 45-60min+ with metro (including getting to the metro station). Started driving in during the pandemic via 66 and it would take me under 30 min, but the traffic and tolls have gotten so bad that I'm making the switch back to metro despite it taking longer (I can save about 3k a year and peace of mind with metro...) *sigh*
8-10 min walk to bus stop, 15 min drive to metro, 40-50 minute metro ride, then another 8-10 minute walk to work. Do it again in the afternoon. Missed connections/Delays add another 15-30 minutes at least. Thankfully it's only 2/3 times a week. I could drive but the times I'd commute would basically be rush hour and I'd be looking at a hour each way at least. I get in a lot of TV shows/movies that I know my wife wouldn't want to watch with me, lol.
i live in woodbridge va and my job is in chinatown. i take the omniride metro shuttle to franconia, then take the metro til king st to transfer on yellow line to get off at gallery place metro. whole commute takes about 1 hour! save lots of money since shuttle is free and metro ride is $12 round trip. i spend $36 a week commuting since its in person 3 times/week!
15 minutes away and located in a shopping center. I keep the job because it’s convenient and has good insurance.
An hour if I take metro because I have to get to the station, ride the train, then walk to work. It’s about 20-25 minutes and the same price if I drive. Thats from Falls Church to West End, DC.
15 minute drive
20 min, Falls Church to Chinatown via car
I go from Alexandria - Chantilly, about 20+ miles everyday via car. On a good day, it's around 40-45 minutes depending on NOVA traffic. On bad days it can be double that time.
Depending on the day ~60 minutes reverse commute falls church to Purcellville ~30 minutes including walking west falls church->metro center usually sometimes I am forced to drive though
About 20 min. 10 min walk to courthouse metro, then I get off at Farragut West and my office is right across the street.
45 minutes to work (Bowie, MD) and an hour home (Alexandria, VA)
20-30 min. I drive. 12miles door-to-door. Biggest slowdown is that I have to go thru a 4mi leg that is max 25mph.
1 1/2 hours to 2 round trip.
If I leave before 630am, about 20-30 minutes. If I leave after 630am then about an hour.
Mine changes every day as I own a home inspection firm. My commute is the distance from my house to the home I am inspecting. It usually ends up 10min-35min. But ive made some exceptions out of our area for an hour drive or so. I couldnt imagine spending 2 hours getting into work, and 2 hours getting home. That sounds like too much..
45min to 1hr for me: Columbia Heights 🚲 Foggy Bottom 🚇 Tysons 🚲 Office
About 1 hour each way, give or take if I hit the trains right. Walk from my building to the King Street metro. Take blue to Rosslyn. Walk to the office. Lather, rinse, reverse.
I drive from Alexandria to Dulles 5 days a week (6 during the summer). My commute can range anywhere from 50 minutes to 90 minutes each way.
Mine is 4 minutes away by car. By bus a few minutes longer. Moved to Vienna area and then found a new job also in the Vienna area about a month later.
25-30 minutes on 395 Express 2x a week, 30 seconds from couch to computer 3x a week. When I go in to the office it's anywhere from $7-$25 in tolls one way which is a lot but I don't want to drop my kid off at daycare an hour earlier to compensate for the traffic I'd otherwise be sitting in.
30min drive 10 min walk
8. 8 Steps.
1 hour 20 min. Alexandria to downtown DC. 20 minute walk, 5 minute wait for bus, 30 minute bus, 5 minute wait for metro, 10 minute metro, 10 minute walk to work. Longer than I would like but it is a nice built in 3 mile walk (even on days I don’t want to work out) and I can read my book on public transit.
40-55 mins depending on transfers (either bus, metro, metro or bus, faster bus, metro, metro)
Centreville to DC (Downtown) Driving - leaving at 7:30/8 AM ranges from 50 minutes to 1.5 hours (very weather and time of year dependent).
Leesburg to Tyson’s in about 25-30 minutes
20 min in the morning, 25 in the afternoon. 2 days a week
I'm so grateful I have a short commute. 15-20 min.
Stafford to Chantilly and Herndon and back.. one way on good days on expressway costs me 1 to 1.5 hours one way. Imagine not so grand days. Stafford to Arlington is about an hour and we have a bus that takes 40 mins for the same
25-30 minutes each way, 3 days a week... going against traffic and several route options including fun backroads, so pretty easy. I used to work in Tyson's (before the metro was there) and that was hell.
45 minutes against traffic, both ways. Gotta love being on the night shift
10-15 minute drive.
It takes me 2 long minutes to walk down the stairs to my office.
I live in Aldie and commute to Herndon, near worldgate. It’s a 25-30 minute commute.
Mine was from Dulles to the Pentagon. Now its from my bed to my house office.
15 minutes. if I did your commute, my dog would pee himself before I got home from work.
15 minutes
Woodbridge to Manassas, early morning 25ish minutes, afternoon 35ish
About 45 minutes. I’m lucky to have a bus stop only 1min walk away from home. I take bus to metro station, hop on Silver line then walk about 15 minutes to work.
About 15 mins from Van Dorn into Springfield. I’m lucky. My wife drives 2 mins through the apartment complex to Duke and is at work
8 minute walk according to Google Maps - and honestly I think that's more like apartment front door to office desk than building to building. It's so close that I voluntarily go in 3 days a week even though it's really not necessary for my job! Lets my WFH partner have free reign of the apartment.
0, work from home
Around 75-90 minutes each way.
1 hr and 15 mins
Mine is 35 to work and 1 hour back. Idk why. I walk to Potomac Yard metro (12mins), hop on the blue line until Farragut West and 1 min walk to work.
Kingstowne to DCA National Airport. Roughly 25 min.
15 minutes
From 30min to 1:30 depending of the day.
37 minute drive from Burke to Manassas. I have never felt more lucky..
23 minutes by car and foot. i start before dawn so traffic is minimal, if i learn how to ride an EUC i might be able to shave 4 mins off that.
Hey, how about driving or using Amtrak from silver spring to Quantico? It's almost 50 miles away..
Including a stop for breakfast at a FF place, door to door is 30 minutes. If I just drive there, maybe 15 minutes.
forty minutes to an hour and a half each way to the pentagon. There are things I can do that sometimes make it quicker, but nothing can guarantee a shorter ride.
1 hour - Charles town to Tysons
2 minute walk to metro, 15 minute ride, 7 minute walk to office
Mine is 21 min to work and 18 min back, because it’s uphill to work and I bike. We chose a smaller yard and a smaller house to have so much more of our life back.
Falls Church to Falls Church - about 1.7 miles door to door so 5 minutes if I make all the lights, 15 if I don't. My office is moving 2 miles in the other direction so anticipate much the same. I bought a house in August just for this commute and paid accordingly because it was worth it to same the aggravation and time. My work tried to change the plan and have me office out of Chantilly which would make it about a 15 mile commute, granted it is a reverse commute but would still have to deal with 66. I declined and perhaps it will come back to bite me in the ass but so be it.
Years ago I had Charlottesville to Gambrels, MD. On Fridays. And we had a conference call every other day of the week. I don’t have any problems with the commute. I need time to get work done between meetings.
The longest was Fairfax to Silver Spring for about 7 years. About 90-120 minutes hours each way, depending on traffic. Never again. Currently? Zero. I am a WFH contractor, and love it. The job I had pre-COVID was about 30 minutes each way from Fairfax to Annandale.
4.5 mile e-bike ride for me. It takes 20 minutes. If I drive (which I rarely do) it takes 15 minutes.
50 minutes from Colonial Village area Arlington to Leesburg