For me, my fastest option is probably by the subway. Can't argue with travelling at 80kph on a dedicated rail. After that, it's a toss up b/t car and bike. The road traffic here can be snarly. In that case, commuting by car is not much faster and sometimes I think it may be slower.

So for me the fastest is
1) Subway
2) Tie b/t Car and Bike.
3) Bus

How about you?

1. Drive
2. Bike (very close second, usually depends on traffic)
3. Bus (Distant third, and no way to get home when I work until 9PM)

drive car , but by only a few minutes
th en bike
bus, but with all the waiting for the bus to come a ridiculous option
personally i prefer the bike routine as i feel safer going at my own speed, and having the peace of mind that if i break down with the bike i can fix it in short order usually.

Thanks to upgrades to our transit system that work in my favour, driving and public transit are now pretty close. Cycling is the slowest, but not by much.

Well, for me, there are a lot of factors.

1) If I leave at 5:30 AM, the car is probably the fastest, I can make it in probably 50 minutes. But I can't seem to regularly get up that early.
(tie) 1) If I get a ride to the train station from my wife, I can make it in 50 minutes
2) If I leave at 8 AM, the car is usually fastest, but sometimes I'm late due to traffic, construction, etc. So I don't do this often.
3) If I ride to the train station, it takes about an hour, but this doesn't vary with traffic or rush hour. Also, the time on the train is "free" I can sleep, read, talk to people, whatever. So this is preferable to a shorter commute by car. No risk of wear & tear on the car or car accidents.
4) If I drive during rush hour, it takes 90 minutes and I'm cranky when I get to work. This is the absolute last resort. (if I've missed my last train that will get me in on time)

To add to that, there are express trains and regular trains. So for me, it is more about how I prefer to travel than the duration of the commute.

1) Driving. 15ish minutes.
2) Cycling. 35-55 minutes depending on the weather, my route, and how hungover I am.
3) Bus. Haven't actually tried this one. I just know to get to my job I'd have to do two transfers, which according to the schedule would take around 2 hours.

I can ride the same speed as the trams here, but with no waiting, and the ride is door-to-door. Both are faster than cars, which get low priority in urban areas.

Bike: 40 minutes average
Subway + bus: 40 minutes minimum, usually more like 1h, often longer due to problems.
Driving: out of question! I'm not driving to Manhattan during rush hours, period. You've got to be nuts to do that. Caged? No, thanks.

1: car
2) bike
3- walk
[4] bus

1.5 miles with 4 lights. One crosses a major road, and usually is red, two more never change, and the last one is where I make a left and am about 100m from my office. By only stopping twice on a 40mph road, the car is pretty quick.
Public transit basically doesn't exist. It runs in the opposite direction from work

1 car, motorcycle=35 min
2 bicycle = 1hr 45 min.

There are no transit options. The bike is way slower, and that is the point. I can decompress after work. (As much as I can beside a two lane highway)

I live in New York.

I am definitely fastest on my bike, but only by a small margin vs. the bus. The margin widens outside of normal rush hour though; the bus I take runs far less often off peak. Of course, the bus can be less stressful than riding on NYC streets sometimes...

The subway would be much faster, were it not for the fact that I need a transfer (and an inconvenient one at that). If they ever finished the 2nd Ave line the subway would take the lead.

Drive: 18 minutes
Bike: 35 to 50 minutes depending on season
Walk: 3 hours

Those are the choices here. 90% rural with no traffic or reason to slow down at all, I get in my car, get up to 50 MPH and stay there most of the way until I get to work. Bike is only faster if there are a lot of reasons that a car would have to stop.

In summer, biking is the fastest option at 10 minutes. Well, actual road time is the same as a car (I sometimes get caught by all the same lights as coworkers driving a similar route). But in order to match the bike time to the car time, I'd have to pay $200 to park in the same parkade where I have a free bike rack. Additionally, most of the car stalls are on lower levels, so I get a time advantage in getting to my bike and getting it up to the surface.

The bus isn't terrible. In winter, the bus is pretty similar to the bike (15-20 minutes), except that it's unpredictable when it'll come. Leaving at exactly the same time can give me anything from "walk straight onto the bus" to "wait 15 minutes and be late for work."

I can also walk in 30-35 minutes.

I'm about 2 blocks from a proposed light rail route, to be built at some point in the next 6 years, which might be faster. However, I intend to move in 3-4 years (once my wife is finished law school), so I may never get a chance to compare those options for speed.

bingo. going in, all downhill, it's almost a wash between car and bike. coming home it's not even close.

Drive - 10 minutes / Ride - 20 minutes / Bus - no direct route so it would be a while and involve multiple transfers.

My commute is about 10 min on bike. I can do it around 6 or 7 min if I blow some lights and get there sweaty. It takes at least 12 min by car. Or 45 min walking. Bus would probably take an hour because I don't know the schedule.

Now (5 mile commute one way) local streets, no...car is faster but only about 10 minutes depending on catching lights.

a number of year back withh an 8 mile one way commute, the bike was faster. by 5 to 10 minutes.as the traffic was horrrible (first street/ Tasman ave for San Jose types)

For me, driving is like 15 minutes, bike 20. Subway 30-35, bus 40. Public transit loses because of the time to walk to and from stations. Car is fastest, but most stressful, so most days it's bike.

Morning
1) Car 20 minutes ($16 to park)
2) Car/subway 40 minutes ($4.50 to park)
3) Bike 1 hour: includes shower & change ($30/month gym membership)

Evening
1) Car 30-45 minutes
2) Subway/Car 40 minutes
3) Bike 1 hour: includes walk to gym to change

1) Train (I'm pretty sure at least)
2) Car
3) Bike

Bike, for me, has only been 2-3 minutes slower than car, so I just need to get faster! It's only 3.5 miles, so it's pretty quick no matter how I go.

I have a 2 mile commute to school.
1. Bike. Between 6 and 10 minutes, depending on traffic and the wind.
2. Car. Probably 10 minutes on average. I haven't driven it in a long time. Often 8 minutes and often 15 minutes. Traffic can be especially capricious in sprawling cities.
3. Bus. I have never ridden the bus, although I'd guess I could make it in 20 minutes on a good day.

Of course, my time by bike is a sprint. If I'm in a hurry, I'll blow through the 4-way stops with no traffic. However, if any drivers can see me, I stop.

Bike 35 minutes
Car 20 minutes
Helicopter 5 minutes

.... The speed of the commute isn't a major factor for me.

Drive - 15 min. in the AM, 20-30 min PM
Bike - 20-25 min
Bus - 1 h 45 min

I took the bus...once.

at first it wasn't, but now biking is my fastest option.

driving across the freeway (5m) + biking 12-13m (55m) = 1 hour. used to take 1:20 but a better bike and some exercise has helped :-)

driving to the train station (10) + riding the train (25m) +taking the subway = 1 hour, though there are often delays on the subway so it's usually longer.

driving in rush hour = 90m. at 6am it's only 30m, but I don't get up that early.

Bicycle: Typically 75 minutes
Car: Typically 25 minutes