Fi, you know where I work I live (approx) 35Km from work. My trip to work takes me anywhere from 30 min (granted that is at 6am) to 90+ minutes (for a 930 start). If I am starting work at 0930, I leave home no later than 0800 to drop DD off at Kinder/Creche and then continue on to work (I prefer to leave by 0750 but she isn't always intune with that!). I only do drop off's if I'm starting 0900 or later. If I am on the late shift, my trip to work is 45 min (give or take) and I leave at 1130.

My trip home is much quicker. I can do door to door (including picking DD up from Kinder and having a social chat with carers) in 1 hour. If I'm not collecting DD it is about a 45 min trip.

Coincidently, if I were to catch the train (and didn't have to worry about drop off/pick up) it would take me around 40 min on the train (longer if it's an all stations) plus the 5 min walk each way from the station to home. But because I'd have to take the train two stops in the opp direction of where I actually need to go for work, then walk 2Km, drop off, then walk 2Km and get a train to the city... it would take over 2 hours!