To ask Londoners their advice on this commute?

[LumpenMonkee]

I am moving house soon and starting a new job too at the same time.

House is just over a mile away from Turnpike Lane tube station and just under a mile from Hornsey rail. Job is near Holborn Viaduct (Chancery Lane/Holborn/Farringdon all nearby).

This is my first time commuting in London... I am just wondering how realistic it sounds to walk over a mile to the tube every morning, take tube to Holborn then walk? So about 2 miles, 4 miles a day in total. Buses are available but I'm worried they'll be packed and I like fresh air in the morning anyway. I'm fairly fit and training for a 15k so the exercise will do me good.

I walk 40 mins each way to and from work, through central London. Everyone I know is so jealous of this. Treasure the walking OP, it is so much more pleasant than every other option in London.

My DD walks from Willesden Green to Notting Hill every day. Takes her 45 minutes each way but she says that's about the same time as the bus takes because of the traffic. She wears trainers to walk and takes spare trousers if it rains. Her Fitbit step count is immense!

Scooter is a great suggestion- I see so many people on their scooters now!

Otherwise, definitely look into cycling. I thought I wouldn't be confident enough to do my commute by bike because of similarly busy roads, but picked it up really quickly. Free cycle safety training helped too.

Scooting only works if the pavements aren't too busy though.

Scooter is a great suggestion- I see so many people on their scooters now!

Really?! I walk up Kingsway/High Holborn about 4 times a day and don't think I've ever seen a commuter on a scooter.... it would be absolute fucking carnage IMO!

Until last year (when I moved out of London), this was my exact commute.

It's fine, except when there are problems on the Piccadilly Line (which there are, fairly often) as your alternative options for getting into town are limited and, when the Tube is off, packed full. If you have the option to work from home on those days, it makes life so much easier.

The commute itself is fine though and as others have said, it's fairly straightforward for a London commute. I did it pretty much every day for 8 years and it was hassle-free for the most part.

That sounds very do-able. I live and work on opposite sides of London (currently job hunting for something more central!) and I walk 1 mile, take the tube for 10mins, then the train for 40mins and walk another mile. I wear block high heels most days (shoes in the summer and boots in the winter) and have my Barbour/winter coat, hat and brolly for rainy days. It very rarely snows. I often find waiting in the rain for a bus more annoying than walking in the rain.

I would say that is the perfect commute. I always walk if I can when I get off at Waterloo (I work at lots of different places) as it's often quicker than getting on a bus, and no waiting around.