Tell Us: How Bad (Or Not) Is Your Commute?

Earlier this month, area Patch.com websites asked readers in their respective towns about their commutes – something the Boston area tends to be notorious for.

We started off asking readers on the Lynnfield Patch Facebook page about their commutes, and several folks offered some insight. For example, Christine Hartnett Reardon noted that conditions tend to be bad in Lynnfield pretty much any day around the Route 1/Salem Street intersection – especially between 3:30 and 6 p.m.

Danielle Lepore O’Blenes expressed almost the exact same sentiments – Salem Street to the Rotary from 3 p.m. onward is tough – and with added construction, it tends to be even worse. 

Pam Scantalides and Jonathan Campbell largely agreed that there’s essentially no good way to commute to Boston during the week. Pam reported that she gets on Route 1 at the Square One Mall in Saugus, which allows a commuter to avoid at least a mile or so of gridlock on any given morning.

Personally, the best commute I ever had was a 10-minute walk through early morning in a New Hampshire town. The worst was a decade ago, attempting to get to and from Burlington from Salem on Route 128 day after hellish day - perhaps not coincidentally, right before I left the state for a few years. So with that – How’s your own commute these days? Are you one of those lucky few who works out of the house or works locally? Or do you enjoy a “reverse commute” north of here? Or do you pretty much just grit your teeth and slog through the gridlock?