I overslept and it is raining.

You know what that means? Probably no one slugging and everyone driving. Instead of wasting and adding the 10 minutes to look and wait before deciding that no one is coming, I went ahead and went slug-free for today. The funny thing it still takes the same amount of time to get to work.

You go out of the way and drive 10 minutes to the commuter lot. You wait from 1-15 minutes for a slug/ride.So that's a minimum of 15 minutes there (from driving to the lot and waiting with 5 minute average wait time). It takes 25 minutes to get to Pentagon in HOV. From there, it's another five to ten minutes to Crystal City or Pentagon. Right there that is 45 minutes not including metro from leaving the door of my house. The walk to my Ballston office is five minutes, and the metro ride is 10 minutes from Rosslyn. So from when I leave my house it's about an hour; if I slug it in, my cost is the gas to the commuter lot (5.2 miles each way, say 10. That's $1.20 with today's gas prices), and then $3.30 in round trip Metro tickets.

Commuter Cost from Slugging to Ballston from Woodbridge daily: $4.50
Commuter Cost from Slugging to Crystal City from Woodbridge daily: $1.20

It took me 55 minutes to get to work this morning driving solo. This means driving up Route 1 and taking the Route 1 exit past 123 (to bypass traffic on 95 where people don't know how to merge). Then getting off at Edsall - Sleepy Hollow - Wilson; to get to Ballston because it bottlenecks again at Edsall Road / $395.

Commuter cost from Driving solo to Ballston from Woodbridge daily (32 miles not including stop and go and lower mpg rate): 3 gallons of gas round trip = $7.32. with no parking fees. With parking fees / $15 / $17 / $20 depending on the car lot you park at.

This does not include a parking cost which would be $8 daily. I have someone else's parking pass. So it could potentially be $15 in commuter costs a day, if you get the early bird. If not you're paying up to $19 a day to commute.

Taking the VRE costs $7.80 each way, and metroing to Ballston from Crystal City is $4.50 round trip.

Commuting via VRE to Ballston from Woodbridge + Metro = Roughly $20.10

Math is fun.