A couple of times a week I am traveling from where I live, close to Amsterdam, to Eindhoven, and already doing so for 7 years. That is a commute about 120km and when I started with that it would take me 1 hour 10 minutes in the car. In morning traffic I would calculate 1 hour and 30 minutes and I was always on time. Nowadays our roads are clogged and 1,5 hour is regular often going up to 2 hours or more, the record is already 3 hours travel time. No fun anymore! Last Friday I decided to drive down to Eindhoven, after all it was the middle of the day, 11:00 in the morning, so no traffic I assumed. Well, after 1,5 hours and not even being half way I decided to turn around and reschedule the internal meeting in Eindhoven.
Traveling by train it will take me 2 hours, door to door, but almost always two predictable hours of which I can work about 1 hour and 15 minutes using my 3G connection. Of course I have experienced some delays while traveling by train too, but never reached the 3 hours so far. And I must admit that as an avid car driver (at least upto earlier this year) I am still surprised every time how relaxed I am after traveling by train instead of car.
