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Username: Hpgrmln
Post Number: 426
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 7:44 am: |    |
Drive. The commute is pretty good. Its a very direct route getting downtown from Hazel Park. Jump on 75 and just head about 9 miles out. I was tired of 70 mile round-trip commutes so I was lucky to find work closer to home to remedy that situation. |
Russell
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Username: Russell
Post Number: 55
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:14 am: | |
hubby drops me off on the way to his work and I take the bus home. It's great! |
Chris_rohn
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Username: Chris_rohn
Post Number: 425
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:37 am: | |
My wife and I take our son to day care together. I drop her off at work. I get free parking with my job, then mid-afternoon my wife takes the car and picks up our son. I take the SMART Woodward Limited home. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 6272
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
LOL @ Fareastsider.
As for me, two words: Mixing Bowl.  |
Defendbrooklyn
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Username: Defendbrooklyn
Post Number: 823
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:45 am: | |
drive 10 miles... |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 1973
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:15 am: | |
I drive when I have assignments outstate and in Chicago, and when I am picking up boxes downtown. I telecommute otherwise. |
Rocknrollscientist
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Username: Rocknrollscientist
Post Number: 117
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:36 am: | |
I drive, and it involves three state highways, and two interstates. Thank you, Gateway Project! Bagley to Trumbull to the Lodge north to 94 east to 75 north to 8 Mile to Woodward and northward.
I moved recently from north of New Center to Mexicantown, and it used to be a little easier (and closer) at the former location. Either way I can't ride my bike, it's just not feasible for many reasons. I could take the bus, but I'd have to walk down to the CBD or hope for a SMART bus with a bike rack.
I really just want to work downtown or telecommute. |
Islandman
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Username: Islandman
Post Number: 1363
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:38 am: | |
My commute for the first time in my life is one block, but that's living in downtown Charlotte.  |
Islandman
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Username: Islandman
Post Number: 1364
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:42 am: | |
For the first time in my life, my commute is one block, but that's living in downtown (though they call it uptown) Charlotte.
After many years of 696/75/Square Lake hell, it is a welcome reprieve. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 2208
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:46 am: | |
Often drive, sometimes bike, 5 miles each way. |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 235
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:56 am: | |
Walk |
Otter
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Username: Otter
Post Number: 109
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:56 am: | |
Professorscott,
I discovered to some surprise recently that there is a marked bike lane on parts of Atwater from the RenCen eastwards. It seems sort of random, and a bit unnecessary compared to, say, bike lanes on Jefferson. This doesn't really affect your point very much re: Detroit vs., e.g., Chicago, Portland, etc. but it is worth pointing out. |
Funaho
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Username: Funaho
Post Number: 44
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 11:04 am: | |
From SW Detroit, I-96 to Novi on Mon/Wed/Fri and I-94 to Ypsilanti Tuesdays and Thursdays, and hopefully soon to be just Ypsi once EMU gets finished with all this dang paperwork to hire me full time. |
Sciencefair
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Username: Sciencefair
Post Number: 82
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 11:07 am: | |
Walk 1 mile to and from work in the CBD. I used to live closer in. |
Rushbuzz1013
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Username: Rushbuzz1013
Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 11:28 am: | |
I drive 35 miles per day and dream of the day I can pop a few coins in a slot and get on a shiny new railway system to get me to my place of toil. Gosh, I love to dream. But, wouldn't it be great. |
Mdoyle
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Username: Mdoyle
Post Number: 373
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:12 pm: | |
50 miles round trip per day until 6pm today when I finish my last class @ WSU. Then, with any luck, Ill get a job quickly and find a place in midtown/woodbridge. |
Saintme
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Username: Saintme
Post Number: 119
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
Jefferson or Fort St from Wyandotte to downtown.
On the way home I take I-75 |
Birdie
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Username: Birdie
Post Number: 22
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:22 pm: | |
I walk three blocks to the DIA. |
Iseries840
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Username: Iseries840
Post Number: 566
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:31 pm: | |
I drive from Dearborn to SW Detroit. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4660
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:38 pm: | |
Of course, Dstar, I should have considered that you are a suit! Yeah that'll be me too in a while and I don't see myself biking then. |
Psewick
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Username: Psewick
Post Number: 103
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 12:42 pm: | |
Since it got warm I've been biking the 3.1 miles to work in Midtown.
I feel like I'm wasting my $171 per month car insurance payments. |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 3034
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:13 pm: | |
The subway.
ETA: It's about a 5-6 mile trip. It takes 30-40 minutes because I have to make a couple of transfers. The reason I take the subway is because I live in Manhattan.
(Message edited by iheartthed on April 23, 2008) |
Mbr
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Username: Mbr
Post Number: 379
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:19 pm: | |
Drive, 18 miles each way, reverse commute from Midtown to Oakland County. |
Danindc
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Username: Danindc
Post Number: 4170
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:27 pm: | |
20-minute subway ride, transfer to 10-minute bus ride. Reverse for the commute home. |
Solarflare
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Username: Solarflare
Post Number: 580
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:36 pm: | |
Drive, about 60 miles round trip daily. Mt Clemens to Dearborn and back, 94 the whole way. Recently switched to a 4-cylinder, THANK GOD. Would love to find something on my side of town that paid the same, just haven't yet.
It's 30-45 minutes in the a.m. and about 60-75 minutes in the p.m.
(Message edited by solarflare on April 23, 2008) |
Swingline
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Username: Swingline
Post Number: 1100
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:59 pm: | |
quote:I drive a heavy duty Ford Excursion from Marysville to Belleville Michigan. I think im going to move further out though as it is getting to built up north of 26 Mile rd now. That statement is hilarious on so many levels that I lost count. Fareast, do you drive your Excursion to your weekend comedy club gigs? |
Harmonie
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Username: Harmonie
Post Number: 734
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 3:22 pm: | |
Walk two blocks...because it's the quickest way. |
Udmphikapbob
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Username: Udmphikapbob
Post Number: 561
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 3:32 pm: | |
Livonia to Rochester Hills = 75 mile round trip. Drive a compact car and average close to 30mpg. Bought the house when I worked in Plymouth and wife worked in Farmington Hills. She's still there, and I'm on my 5th job since then. Had an interview with a New Center company yesterday that would cut my commute in half. Can't move because we owe $170,000 on a house we'd be lucky to get $160k for. |
Skylark
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Username: Skylark
Post Number: 39
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 4:09 pm: | |
I drive 12 miles round trip to work and back. |
Udmphikapbob
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Username: Udmphikapbob
Post Number: 562
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 4:11 pm: | |
In theory, if I get the job in the City, I can take the #38 Plymouth Road bus to Dexter, and ride the #16 to WGB and 2nd in New Center. About an hour on the buses, plus walk time. I'd have to leave the house by 6:30, and get to work around 8am. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5345
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 11:19 pm: | |
From the burbs all the way down Van Dyke to Gratiot. Follow Gratiot into downtown. It takes about 40 minutes on a good day to go 15.3 miles but that will end with Kettering getting out of school. Avoiding 75 altogther due to bridge work and general bullshit, plus 75 adds 6 more miles onto commute. |
Detourdetroit
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Username: Detourdetroit
Post Number: 389
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:54 am: | |
I walk through alleys
My wife takes hallways. |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 822
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:35 am: | |
i walk a half mile. |
Hamtragedy
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Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 141
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 2:21 am: | |
I'm re-discovering Davison Ave now that the LIGHTS ARE FINALLY TIMED, and the muslims aren't selling bean pies at Linwood. |
Wpitonya
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Username: Wpitonya
Post Number: 73
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 9:07 am: | |
I walk about a mile from West 47th Street in Manhattan to West 25th. |
Applesauce
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Username: Applesauce
Post Number: 157
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:10 am: | |
I commute from Harper Woods to Ann Arbor M-F. I would love to take a train some day. |
Sturge
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Username: Sturge
Post Number: 243
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:54 am: | |
I take the park and ride bus from Farmington to Detroit. |
Kimmiann
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Username: Kimmiann
Post Number: 78
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:14 pm: | |
Like Saintme, drive Wyandotte to downtown (midtown, actually) via Jefferson or Fort. Its not quite 15 miles one way; it still takes 40 minutes most days. Jefferson used to be my cherished little secret, until the Gateway project. |
Brougham
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Username: Brougham
Post Number: 61
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:27 pm: | |
I take Hines drive, Livonia to Dearborn, 15-20 mins in the early am and 20-30 mins home in the afternoon. |
Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1798
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:42 pm: | |
I take a bus 10 minutes or I walk 30 minutes.
1.5 miles door to door.
Chicago. |
Crew
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Username: Crew
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:58 pm: | |
10 mile drive down Woodward to midtown. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 2049
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:09 pm: | |
i live "near" the scientist, i get on 75N at rosa parks, and run it north to 696E, then mound rd. north into NW warren. its about 17 miles round trip i think, takes me about 20-25 minutes. though given my destination, taking the bus/bicycle or a combination of the two is not ideal. my girlfriend works in oak park and we are hatching a plan to drive together to some sort of central point and bike the rest of the way.
if i worked later, or you worked earlier mr. scientist, we could possibly car pool |
Erikd
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Username: Erikd
Post Number: 1012
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:24 am: | |
I walk a few blocks to work, so it takes no time, and costs no money for gas.
Living and working in downtown Detroit is sweet. |
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