On the (few) occasions when I go into the city for a customer meeting, the commuter rail takes "only" something over an hour but, really, we're talking something over two hours from getting up to walking into the office when one includes driving to the station with some slack, paying for parking, and then walking to the office/taking local subway. (Just driving takes about the same 2 hours.) A colleague of mine who lives in a different city and subscribes to the philosophy of if you don't miss one or two flights a year you're leaving too much slack jokes that he can get to our downtown office almost as quickly as I can--and he's not really off by much.