▲Two pick up vans loaded with commuters travel on a road in the western Yemeni province of Houdieda.

▲The aerial tram in Portland, Oregon carries commuters between the city's South Waterfront district and the main Oregon Health & Science University campus.

▲Commuters returning home on a highway near Midnapore town, about 120 km (74 miles) west of Kolkata.

▲Thousands of commuters cram the Brás train station during rush hour in downtown São Paulo.

▲Sudanese returnees commute towards the Afuji border on an open truck from Moyo town, in northern Uganda, to Kajo Keje county in South Sudan.

▲A passenger on a platform in Cologne waits for a train during a strike by German railway operators Deutsche Bahn.

▲People ride on escalators after work, this inside a train station in Taipei.

▲Workers from Myanmar's Mon state look from inside a vehicle taking them back across the border to Myanmar after working in Sangkhlaburi on the Thailand side.

▲Weary commuters sit in the top deck of a bus in London.

▲Commuters ride the Staten Island ferry in New York City.

▲An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man looks out of a fogged up bus window in Jerusalem.

▲Commuters wait patiently for the train at the Estação Sé subway station in downtown São Paulo.

▲People hang onto a crowded local commuter train as they travel to Colombo.

▲The queues increase as passengers wait for a Transmilenio system bus during rush hour in Bogotá.

▲Commuters wait on the platform at Earl's Court tube (metro) station in London.

▲Standing room only in a packed public bus in downtown Lima.

▲A man braves the early morning rural rush hour to start his day picking tea leaves at a plantation in the country's Nandi Hills.

▲A passenger reads the newspaper as he commutes to work by a local train in Mumbai.

▲A commuter ferry sails past the Ottoman palace of Topkapi, overlooking the Bosphorus straits in Istanbul.

▲A commuter walks past a closed metro station during a stoppage of the Brussels public transport network.

▲Men are seen at the window of a train about to depart Karachi's Cantonment railway station.

▲Commuters wait on a platform for their regional train in a station in central Paris.

▲Heavy traffic snakes along a highway during rush hour in Shanghai.

▲Commuters of all shapes and sizes ride an overcrowded train at a station in Kawasaki.

▲Unsmiling commuters are seen in a packed public transport bus in Rio de Janeiro.

▲Vehicles are seen jammed on an expressway near a toll station outside Zhengzhou, in China's Henan province.

▲Commuters pose for a photograph in a train traveling from Harare to Bulawayo.

▲A laborer leaves a fuel station after checking the tire pressure on his horse cart in Soweto, near Johannesburg.

▲A farmer rides a donkey on his way to work in a field on the outskirts of Ganthier.

▲The look says it all! Stuck in rush hour on the northern line of London's underground (metro) system.

▲An endless flow of vehicles seen on Beijing's Guomao Bridge during rush hour.

▲Passengers look at sheep for sale during the morning commute in Dakar.

▲A bus carries commuters as it travels over Waterloo Bridge in London.

▲A GO commuter train approaches Union Station after two days of snow in Toronto.

▲Early morning commuters wait for their ferry to leave Circular Quay wharf in Sydney en route to Manly.

▲Commuters ride a train during rush hour on Southeast Asia's first light rail transit network, which operates in Manila.

▲Palestinian laborers with permits to work in Israel wait for transport after crossing into Israel at Eyal checkpoint near the West Bank town of Qalqilya.

▲Morning commuters wait in a queue for the next available car leaving for Bay Area destinations in San Francisco. Called casual carpooling, this is an efficient but unofficial way to move between home and work.

▲Commuters mingle with tourists as they walk through Prospekt Mira metro station in Moscow.

▲Exhausted commuters ride on a van leaving Phnom Penh for their various hometowns.

▲With little regard for personal safety, commuters ride on the roof of a train en route to Dhaka.

▲A suited businessman steps onto an illuminated walkway in Tokyo on his way to the office.

▲Rush hour traffic clogs the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

▲Commuters stream out of suburban trains at Mumbai's extraordinarily busy Churchgate station.

▲Passengers peer nervously from a broken window on a public bus in Lagos.

▲A local trader rides a wooden bike known as a "chikudu," loaded with goods destined for market near Goma in eastern Congo.

▲Commuters hang on tightly to the back of a crowded "jeepney" in Cainta, Rizal province.

▲Indonesian workers cling to a commuter train on their way to work in Jakarta.

▲At least this female commuter is spared the effort of having to drive through downtown Cairo's chaotic rush hour traffic.

▲An elderly villager smokes a cigar as he commutes on horseback in the mountains near Santo Domingo.

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Rush hour traffic crawls as blowing snow batters Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.

▲Construction workers sit on a vehicle as they go to work near Wat Thep Sirin Temple in Bangkok.

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A woman commutes by car in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving officially ended in June 2018.

▲A lone commuter looks out from a primitive-looking cable car in the town of Chiatura, some 220 km (136 miles) northwest of Tbilisi.

▲A group of female commuters in colorful attire stand at an open doorway of a suburban train during the morning rush hour in Kolkata.

▲Chaos and confusion during a typical morning in downtown Lagos.

▲A commuter ferry navigates through an ice floe in the Hudson River between New Jersey and lower Manhattan in New York City.

▲A woman returns home from work, walking along a cabbage flower field in Moc Chau district, 200 km (124 miles) west of Hanoi.

▲Commuters pack New York City's Brooklyn Bridge during the morning rush hour.

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The daily commute is a necessary evil for most of us traveling to work. But how easy or difficult that journey is largely depends on where you live, the job you have, and what kind of mood the transit gods are in.

Browse this gallery and take an amusing look at how people around the world cope with their commuter conundrums.