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Hi everyone. I'm in the process of applying to medical residency programs and i have a question. My husband and i inherited a house in Londonderry and i'm trying to figure out if it'd be possible to live there and commute to boston everyday. From what i've seen on previous posts, it sounds like the traffic would make the commute > 1 hour during normal commuting times. however, i'll probable need to be there by 6:15 or 6:30 everyday, and will likely leave around 6:30 in the evening. Does anyone know what the commute would be like during those times?
lately there is a lot of company at 6AM - what used to take an hour from Derry to Boston grew into 1.25 hours. Coming home at 5 was closer to 1.5 hours. Coming home at 6 would be back to the hour long commute.
I suggest checking out the bus schedule from either Exit 4 or 5. I find it much better than driving as well as costing less than Boston parking fees. I think the website is Bostonexpress.com
Hello there - I was on the 6:45pm bus from South Station tonight (such a pretty sunset leaving Boston) and we pulled into Exit 4 at about 7:30pm. I would say that this time frame is pretty standard. That bus stops at Exit 4 and 5 (all the schedules are on the Boston Express website). I leave later than 6:30 in the morning, but it only takes about an hour and a half to get there. I say 'only' because I used to live in Woburn (10 miles outside Boston) and it still took an hour to get to work (by car or train).
I completely agree about the bus being a good option. Especially when there's a rollover on 93 South during rush hour...like this morning. The bus crawled through the traffic on the back roads while I worked on my laptop. Good times.
An hour, tops, in the morning. I can get to Boston in no more than 90 minutes if I leave my house at 5 and I live a good 50 minutes from you.
Going home at 6:30 you'll pick up more traffic but it's not horrible, usually. That's probably relative, of course, depending on what you are used to - I grew up in metro NY and spent the last 13 years in the DC metro area so what NH people call "severe traffic," I call "moderately crowded"
wow - you can get to Londonderry from Sunapee in 30 minutes? It used to be an hour commute from Derry to Boston in the '80's. Because of the increase in traffic, the minutes kept adding on and it became 1.25 hours, sometimes longer.
wow - you can get to Londonderry from Sunapee in 30 minutes?
I don't live in Sunapee but I don't imagine you could get there that quickly.
I can get from I-89/exit 10 to I-93/exit 5 (N. Londonderry) in 40 minutes and to exit 4 (Londonderry, I think) in no more than 45 minutes. With no traffic I can get to North Station in 90 minutes.
Ex: Today I left at 8:40am and was exiting onto the ramp to North Station at 9:57am. 10 minutes on the ramp, and I was in the parking garage at 10:07am.
I can't speak to the 80s -- I can just say that for the past 2 years if I am at the NH/MA border no later than 6am or after 9:15am, it takes me 35 minutes +/- to get to North Station. In the summer I can push that to 6:20am with no ill effect.
If I leave North Station at 3:45pm there is no traffic. It increases steadily through about 6:15, then starts dropping off. If I leave at 6:45 - 7pm, there is no traffic to speak of.
At those times you are talking 45 minutes at the most. The cost of living there is fully 25 percent of what it costs to live in Boston. Rt 93 is a great road, piece of cake.
Last edited by CaseyB; 09-26-2010 at 11:52 AM..
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Yeah, 93 is an excellent road...in NH. In Massachusetts, not so much.
Well that's true of a lot of roads that run between NH and MA!
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