A First: Public Transport Cheaper than Driving!

[Kath2003]

...but only if you're travelling alone obviously!

Managed to get Exeter to Sheffield (300 miles) for $32, and then Hemel to Exeter (200 miles, but via London) for $38! My folks are driving between Sheffield and Hemel so no cost to me there (although that means 3 of us in the back, cramped!). That's $70 for 500 miles at only 5 days notice, not bad!

(My car does 50mpg on a good run, fuel is now $10 a gallon so that's $100 minimum for the round trip - and it's faster to take the train to Sheffield than it is to drive by approximately 90 minutes, $30 and 90 minutes saved!).

Also managed to get Plymouth to Exeter for $8 return in January for two weekends. They're about 45 miles apart, so that's $12 per trip saved!

I prefer the train anyway - just sit back and watch a DVD/do some work.

I'm loving the trains this weekend!!

 

[manning]

$10.00 per gal, gulp. Is that an imperial or us gal??

And we think we have it bad here at little over $3.00 per gal.

 

[Kath2003]

$10.00 per gal, gulp. Is that an imperial or us gal??

And we think we have it bad here at little over $3.00 per gal.

US gallons.

Sadly it's not cheaper to get the bus to work yet. It would take an hour and cost $6. It costs me approximately $4 in gas and takes ten minutes in the car Luckily there seem to be lots of people living near me so car sharing should be easy.

 

[Honu]

That's great! Sadly, it's less expensive to commute by car here too. I would have had to take a bus (or leave before 5 am to get parking), then the train and then another bus to go 17 miles. The cost is $11.50 per day, because of all the transfers, and it takes almost 90 minutes each way. I can drive there in 20 minutes for less than half that price.