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Title: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on February 28, 2010, 11:10:07 pm
Well, i was reading the how much sleep you get thread and i realised, some people take a while to get to school.

So, i was interested how long everyone else takes to get to school/uni, for me personally its about 30 minutes, one way. (bus)

I guess you can factor in how long you take to get ready in the morning for how early you wake up but unless you spend heaps of time or go to school naked (damn judge..) i dont think it would vary that much.  I think travel is the big one that determines the time.

Maybe, also say the way you travel. (eg. bus, car, private jet)
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: shinny on February 28, 2010, 11:18:00 pm
Over an hour for uni, as well as when I went to school.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on February 28, 2010, 11:19:22 pm
If i end up going to monash its going to take me 2 hours one way on public transport -_-.

Ah, the joy of living in the west.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: GerrySly on February 28, 2010, 11:21:01 pm
Was 20 minutes to school, half an hour to work (bus and car resp.)

If i end up going to monash its going to take me 2 hours one way on public transport -_-.

Ah, the joy of living in the west.

That's what it would have been for me, another reason to to take the year off. Get some cash together to board there
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: EvangelionZeta on February 28, 2010, 11:21:16 pm
About half an hour, more or less depending on the traffic at the time.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Gloamglozer on February 28, 2010, 11:21:50 pm
To Melbourne Uni during peak hour:

1.  Bus (30-35 minutes)
2.  Tram (10 minutes)

Or I've done it in 30 minutes before with an aggressive bus driver, which was pretty awesome.  All in all, for the next few years, I'm going to be very best friends with bus lanes.  :)

Other than that, it does suck living in a LGA with no trains or trams.  :(
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: crayolé on February 28, 2010, 11:23:55 pm
Haha Westies ftw!

Yeah i get up around 7:30 takes me one hour of walking around the house with my eyes closed/showering/eating/getting ready
then 10 minutes to get to school  (:

Hopefully I can get into Melb uni otherwise its two hours for Monash, we can go there together LOL (:
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: kendraaaaa on February 28, 2010, 11:32:43 pm
20 minutes, Get on the freeway which is ~2 minutes from my place, get off the freeway which is about ~5 minutes from monash haha. Monash freeway FTW!
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: minilunchbox on February 28, 2010, 11:37:23 pm
Car - 2 to 4 minutes
I normally walk home which takes 20-25 minutes because I can't wake up early enough in the morning.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on February 28, 2010, 11:39:44 pm
2 to 4 minutes O_O do you like live next door?
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: QuantumJG on February 28, 2010, 11:43:07 pm
For me it's about an hour to get into uni.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: mandy on February 28, 2010, 11:50:23 pm
Haha Westies ftw!

Yeah i get up around 7:30 takes me one hour of walking around the house with my eyes closed/showering/eating/getting ready
then 10 minutes to get to school  (:

Hopefully I can get into Melb uni otherwise its two hours for Monash, we can go there together LOL (:

Rofl, that's another reason why I wanna go to Melb Uni - cos its so much closer than Monash :)
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: /0 on February 28, 2010, 11:55:13 pm
0 minutes  :laugh:
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: minilunchbox on March 01, 2010, 12:00:02 am
2 to 4 minutes O_O do you like live next door?


That's by car! But yeah my parents chose my school because it was so close (it's also right behind my primary school so I've always had the luxury of sleeping in).

Sort of irrelevant; they recently found a dead body really close to my school, it's on a street which I've walked past for years.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Fyrefly on March 01, 2010, 12:01:35 am

My house to Monash... hmmm....

Option One: 2 hours by public transport

or

Option Two: 1~2 hours by car (oh, the joys of peak-hour traffic).

I choose you, pikachu!

(http://sherryism.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/pikachu_car.jpg)
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on March 01, 2010, 12:08:03 am

My house to Monash... hmmm....

Option One: 2 hours by public transport

or

Option Two: 1~2 hours by car (oh, the joys of peak-hour traffic).

I choose you, pikachu!

(http://sherryism.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/pikachu_car.jpg)

Haha epic car, about the same times for me as well.

Do you live in the west also?

I reckon for me the car would get expensive quick.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: teebagger* on March 01, 2010, 07:31:09 am
That pikachu car is bad ass. :o

Seems like there's a lot of westies here? Usually takes me half an hour to get ready, then about 20 minutes by car to get to school.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: the.watchman on March 01, 2010, 07:33:51 am
I always get up around 1.5-2 hours early, to cram work, get ready and maybe fit some violin practice in :D
Then it can take anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes to get to school
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: d0minicz on March 01, 2010, 07:46:27 am
1 hour to uni !
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 01, 2010, 11:22:29 am
1.15 hours by car

Around 1:30 hours by public transport

Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Fyrefly on March 01, 2010, 12:14:42 pm
Haha epic car, about the same times for me as well.

Do you live in the west also?

I reckon for me the car would get expensive quick.

Yeah, I'm west-sider as well.

My car's actually very fuel efficient... costs me about $40 a week, and I do a fairly generous amount of driving.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: claire92 on March 01, 2010, 11:07:34 pm
School about 10-15 minutes on the bus, 5 minutes by car, but with the bus, the stop is outside my house and drops me off outside the school, so their really isn't any complaints.

With Uni next year, if I get into the uni I hope to go to - about 30 minutes on bus and tram and about 10 driving so pretty good as well.

Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: *ryan777* on March 01, 2010, 11:28:24 pm
yay so many westies on VN
never realised :)

yeah, it normaly takes me 1.5 hrs to get to monash using public transport, little bit more in peak
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: darkphoenix on March 01, 2010, 11:52:35 pm
2 to 4 minutes O_O do you like live next door?


That's by car! But yeah my parents chose my school because it was so close (it's also right behind my primary school so I've always had the luxury of sleeping in).

Sort of irrelevant; they recently found a dead body really close to my school, it's on a street which I've walked past for years.

Loll yeah same parents want to live near school. Hahah i used to live like behind my primary school too.

But now:

By car: ~5mins

Walk: 15-20min

Of course it depends on traffic and how fast you walk as well.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: *ryan777* on March 02, 2010, 08:43:31 pm
lol my parents moved within like 50m of a secondary school then as soon as i got to about year 8 there the school decided to become a prep~9 school :P
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: midas_touch on March 02, 2010, 09:32:31 pm
Great to see a lot of fellow west siders on VN :)

Takes me about 40 mins to get to uni (UoM), consisting of a 5 min drive, 20 min train and 5-10 min bus, plus waiting times.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: methodsman on March 02, 2010, 09:36:45 pm
It was meant to take me 15mins - but because the shitty freeways can't handle the traffic - it took me 35 mins :(
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 02, 2010, 09:39:09 pm
wow so many westsiders, maybe us westsiders shud have a meet at highpoint sometimes xD
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: polky on March 02, 2010, 09:44:36 pm
1+ hours, and that's by car!
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on March 02, 2010, 10:01:02 pm
wow so many westsiders, maybe us westsiders shud have a meet at highpoint sometimes xD


You mean knifepoint?
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: *ryan777* on March 02, 2010, 10:07:03 pm
wow so many westsiders, maybe us westsiders shud have a meet at highpoint sometimes xD


You mean knifepoint?

lol a VN meetup to hang around the cinemas/game arcade place (is it called playtime still?) like all the other gangs XD
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 02, 2010, 10:11:36 pm
wow so many westsiders, maybe us westsiders shud have a meet at highpoint sometimes xD


You mean knifepoint?
lol fkn those fights near the back of highpoint so many of them...

wow so many westsiders, maybe us westsiders shud have a meet at highpoint sometimes xD


You mean knifepoint?

lol a VN meetup to hang around the cinemas/game arcade place (is it called playtime still?) like all the other gangs XD
yeah playtime hahaa, i went there the other day actually
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on March 02, 2010, 10:33:22 pm
I love the names for everything in the west...you got...stab albans...fear park...knife point.. footscary...
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: *ryan777* on March 02, 2010, 10:51:40 pm
I love the names for everything in the west...you got...stab albans...fear park...knife point.. footscary...

lol where is fear park?


edit: nah i get it now lol
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 02, 2010, 10:57:16 pm
lol fear park that's one i havent heard b4
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: redmosez on March 03, 2010, 01:57:37 am
Takes me about 10 mins by tram to get to Uni, about 1-2 mins walk to tram depending on how much coffee I've had.

Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Toothpaste on March 03, 2010, 02:31:48 am
High school: 15 minutes
Uni: probably 1.5 hours (drive, park, walk a bit, train, tram) or drive all the way 45 minutes non-peak - 1.5 hours in peak effing stop-start traffic
Lectures from home in PJs: 0
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Christiano on March 03, 2010, 07:15:52 am
<-- Another west sider livin' near stab albans. An hour by bus, catch 2 buses. 2 hours each day in commute.

When are they gonna invent jetpacks so we can just fly to and from school/uni.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Noblesse on March 03, 2010, 01:36:27 pm
Lectures from home in PJs: 0
FTW

Otherwise 2 hours in off peak, 1.5 hours in peak (trains/trams run more often etc)
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: midas_touch on March 03, 2010, 09:05:28 pm
I love the names for everything in the west...you got...stab albans...fear park...knife point.. footscary...

add scumshine to the list.
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 03, 2010, 09:19:03 pm
Add Maribong as well
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: *ryan777* on March 03, 2010, 10:32:10 pm
Add Maribong as well

nice, btw y r all the names for the places up in the footscray/sunshine/sydenham line area?

has anyone got names for places down here in the south-west?
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: TrueTears on March 04, 2010, 02:31:53 pm
he is boarding at ANU atm
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: Collin Li on March 04, 2010, 04:53:53 pm
What about 20-30 minutes and 40-50 minutes?
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: slothpomba on March 06, 2010, 10:55:14 pm
Fixed
Title: Re: How long does it take you to get to school/uni [poll]
Post by: sillysmile on March 08, 2010, 02:10:31 pm
takes me about half an hour to get to get to school via train :)