Commute distance (one-way)?

... as a consultant. If I'm in the home office, it's 13 miles as the crow flies but I can take public transportation and just sleep the whole way in. At the moment, I drive 53 miles to our client site - but I'm paid for mileage so it's all good.

I drive 55 miles each way, but it is a good drive with light traffic. I get to work in 45 minutes, because I start work at 6:30 a.m. I have friends who live just north of the metroplex (less than 10 miles), but have to sit in grid lock for hours. My wife drives 70 miles each way, but enjoys her drive (good time to relax and reflect) and when we get home its worth the drive to get back to country living.

Gas is not a problem in Texas, we all have oil wells in our backyards! LOL!

I am 16.09 kilometres (Canadian spelling of kilometers), from work one way. That is 10 miles. When will the good ol' U S of A switch to the metric system? Officially? I imagine Americans have had to work with metric in various industries, arts, commerce etc. for a long time. Britain just recently changed to metric, although they still build speedometers (along with many other gauges) in both.

I commute about 3.14 kilomiles fortnightly to the OmniNerd underground lair to ensure all of the blipdometers and twinklegraphs are properly functioning. I ride and do tricks on my BMX bike to the port where Conrad readies my submersible vessel that transports me through the murky depths of the Pacific. After fighting off scores of Japanese Cougar Fish, I arrive at the hub where I begin the final leg of my journey in a subterranean drilling craft, just like the one in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (except mine is red). Once at the O-cave, I usually unwind with a taco.

With all the recent talk about whether a hybrid is worth it, and the general worry about gas efficiency, one issue not usually factored into total fuel economy is the actual miles driven in a week.

I used to drive 25 miles one way and my wife about 18. Now she drives 1 mile to work and I drive about 6 miles on country roads. Because of this, our gasoline bill now is more or less the same as it was in 1990.

I travel on two freeways for a total of about 13 miles one way.

The time it takes really depends on if there is an accident or not. The L.A. Times recently did a story on the freeway interchange I use daily, quoting a police officer who calls it a "suicide drive" because there are so many accidents.

In the mornings (15 minutes) it's pretty easy going. In the evenings, especially lately, it's rather slow (35-45 minutes).

For as gadget laden as my Jeep Wrangler is (public address system, digital trunking scanner, puppy cannons, etc.) I actually don't have a modern GPS. Rather, I have an older (go hike in the woods with your digital breadcrumb trail) version that doesn't do anything but tell you where you are. So I was considering getting a newer, cooler GPS for the car to find all these client sites, hotels and crazy roads in NJ, NY, CT, etc.

Has anybody used a traffic enabled GPS effectively? I've seen some that indicate a requirement to have a subscription that uses your bluetooth phone to get information. I'd heard of FM based traffic (from an article where people hacked them with fake traffic signals). So I'm curious if they're worth the extra money and actually find GOOD alternate routes.

My commute is pretty long (7,427 miles one-way, or 11,952 km), but I only need to do it about once a year or so. Averaged over the typical 260 work day year, and it comes to about 28.5 miles each day. Not too bad, I guess ...