This is the rob blatt blog.

So I wanna cut some costs down. Mostly thing I spend money on relating to work like lunch, travel and things of that nature.

First is a serious consideration to commuting to Stamford by train when I work there. It’s 52.4 miles round trip to work. My car gets between 18 and 20 miles to the gallon, which makes it about 3 gallons of gas to get to and from work daily (I usually sit in an hour to an hour and a half of extra traffic each round-trip). Currently I pay about $10 to commute by car daily.

I have two option of train stations to go to, one closer and slightly more expensive and one a little further away and less expensive. The one that is further away also is juuust past the point of where traffic begins to pile up. Amber can show me a back roads way, but I question if it will save me any more time. I’m too lazy to wake up on days I’m not contracting there and do some trial runs at approximate times on the two routes because I value my slumber too darn much.

The train requires me to leave much earlier in the mornings than usual, up to an hour earlier because of the shuttles that run from Stamford to my job. The ride home would be shorter, and the prospect of that I like. The math works out to that if I take the train from the closer to work station then I’m looking at the train ticket paying for itself after 6 days of travelling to work. In an average month I spend approx 10-12 days there so it pays for itself easily.

The differences to my schedule would be leaving the house by 8:05 instead of by 9:05 to arrive at work at 9:50 instead of somewhere between 9:30 and 9:45. If I have to be in the office earlier than that, I’d have to leave at 7:30 instead of 8:30 or 8:20.

Something to think about.