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It takes me less than five minutes (four blocks, which I walk) to get to work with my main job and twnety minutes (seventeen miles) to my other job. No rest for the wicked.
I live about 3 miles from where I work in downtown Rapid City. If I don't have to travel during rush hour (7:30-8:00) I can get to work in about 10 minutes. If I do, it can take 15 or 20. Today I got stuck at a train and it took 20 minutes. Grr! Why do they let trains go through town at 8:00am?
Hi all, I live exactly three miles from my garage to my office. With the price of gas, this is a Godsend. Sometimes I will run into work and back, but I have a small car so gas lasts a good amount of time for me... Hope everyone is doing well.
It's just exactly two miles from my house to work. The most it takes me is eight minutes and that's if the two stop lights tie me up OR if there is traffic and I have to stay stopped at a stop sign. I'd love to walk to work, but don't want to walk home so I drive.
I guess nobody on the forum travels too far for work! Chris, you must have a job out of town... My work is about 3 1/2 miles... Google maps claims I can get there in 9 minutes ...Part of the route is Interstate though. Usually takes me about 15 minutes. I used to live in SW Sioux Falls... My commute to work was very different then. I had to travel through the 41st & Louise (Empire Mall) area. Around the holidays, and even rush hour times, I was late to work multiple times!
Good to hear from you Mark, I hope all is going well with you.
I think when I checked, my apartment is just under 2 miles from my office in downtown Rapid. I love the fact that I moved from Ellsworth into town (takes about 5-10 minutes to get to work now, instead of 20-30), but now I'm scared that I'll be so spoiled with my commute that I'll never be able to consider living in a big city again! But, then again, I moved here for a reason, I don't think I'll ever WANT to go back to a big city anyways!
I guess nobody on the forum travels too far for work! Chris, you must have a job out of town... My work is about 3 1/2 miles... Google maps claims I can get there in 9 minutes ...Part of the route is Interstate though. Usually takes me about 15 minutes. I used to live in SW Sioux Falls... My commute to work was very different then. I had to travel through the 41st & Louise (Empire Mall) area. Around the holidays, and even rush hour times, I was late to work multiple times!
Good to hear from you Mark, I hope all is going well with you.
My second job is in Sioux Falls and the 17 mile drive is not bad, except in the winter and when there are severe thunderstorms/tornadoes. I-29 is usually not bad in the winter with the exception for the type of drivers who are still in a hurry if the roads are icy, slick, and/or snow-covered and when there is blowing snow when driving on the southbound lanes. The Klondike Rd. (as what the locals nickname the road) going west is being widened (so I have to take an alternative route to Sioux Falls) but was a narrow road and can be scary to drive on if snow-covered or icy.
I almost got into a head-on collision (darn lucky that I did not) with a truck in the winter of 2006-2007 on the Klondike Rd. when the roads were slippery (and the truck was driving in the middle of the slick and narrow road). If I would have shifted to the right, I would have lost control of the car and slid in the ditch or had a possible rollover.
SD 17 going south is generally kept up well and is not bad to drive on during the winter for the most part.
I cannot image how people in some areas of West River and other parts of SD can manage to drive at least 35-40 miles to work in the winter, especially West River when the roads are icy/slippery. I am used to my relatively flat land.
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...Part of the route is Interstate though. Usually takes me about 15 minutes. I used to live in SW Sioux Falls... My commute to work was very different then. I had to travel through the 41st & Louise (Empire Mall) area. Around the holidays, and even rush hour times, I was late to work multiple times!
