We have moved. Two ways to get to work from the new place — which one?

Option B is the more sustainable and reliable default. Although cycling looks faster at 25 minutes versus 40, that advantage is largely offset by showering and changing at the office, which can add 10–15 minutes and bring the effective door-to-desk time close to parity. Cycling is also weather-dependent and variable: gear does not solve ice, heavy rain, summer heat, or arriving presentable, so it cannot be a dependable year-round plan without metro fallback days. Option B is robust in all conditions and converts 20 of its 40 minutes into guaranteed seated reading, turning dead transit time into restorative leisure and mental decompression, which lowers its felt cost to roughly 20 neutral minutes. The time saved by cycling at home is unlikely to become committed reading or decompression in the same reliable way. Option A remains defensible for its 30 minutes per day saved and built-in exercise, especially if cycling would replace a separate workout, but that benefit depends on a specific exercise context not given here. On balance, the predictability, comfort, zero weather risk, presentable arrival, and guaranteed reading benefit of Option B outweigh the marginal net time savings and conditional exercise advantage of cycling.