Public Transport
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Does anyone go out of their way to avoid it?
I live 43 miles from work.
I could take a coach which gets me to work in just over an hour, and costs £7.70 per day.
Instead, I drive at a cost of £10 (fuel) per day, as close as I can get without paying for parking, and walk the remaining 3 miles.
Now the extra £50 per month would come in handy, but I can't make myself go on the bus. I tried it for a few months, and every day it just got more and more horrible:
Awful drivers.
Rude passengers.
If I sleep in by a minute, I get to work an hour late.
If it's full on the way home I have to wait an hour for the next one.
If I work late I have to wait two hours.
When I was lucky - the bus smelled like someone had an "accident" in the on-board toilet a few years ago and had never been cleaned.
When I was unlucky - someone had just had an accident and it would proceed to dribble down the floor to the front of the bus and around my shoes.
Think I'll stick with driving thanks.
Anyone else in similar position?
I live 43 miles from work.
I could take a coach which gets me to work in just over an hour, and costs £7.70 per day.
Instead, I drive at a cost of £10 (fuel) per day, as close as I can get without paying for parking, and walk the remaining 3 miles.
Now the extra £50 per month would come in handy, but I can't make myself go on the bus. I tried it for a few months, and every day it just got more and more horrible:
Awful drivers.
Rude passengers.
If I sleep in by a minute, I get to work an hour late.
If it's full on the way home I have to wait an hour for the next one.
If I work late I have to wait two hours.
When I was lucky - the bus smelled like someone had an "accident" in the on-board toilet a few years ago and had never been cleaned.
When I was unlucky - someone had just had an accident and it would proceed to dribble down the floor to the front of the bus and around my shoes.
Think I'll stick with driving thanks.
Anyone else in similar position?
t.rasputin said:
I live 43 miles from work.
I could take a coach which gets me to work in just over an hour, and costs £7.70 per day.
Instead, I drive at a cost of £10 (fuel) per day, as close as I can get without paying for parking, and walk the remaining 3 miles.
Personally I can think of nothing worse than having to drive 400 miles and walk 30 miles every week to get to work.I could take a coach which gets me to work in just over an hour, and costs £7.70 per day.
Instead, I drive at a cost of £10 (fuel) per day, as close as I can get without paying for parking, and walk the remaining 3 miles.
If I was in that situation I would move job or move house and if that wasn't possible I'd drive to a train station, and if that wasn't possible I'd get the coach. Doing your journey the way you do it would be my absolute last resort.
I love driving but I wouldn't want to do it every day for commuting.
i live 22 miles from work and driving takes 30-40mins depending on traffic. i pay £100 a month in toll fees and £160ish on fuel if i use the car.
by train, it takes 1hr 45mins plus 30mins walking, cost = £23.60 return!
i'm having to endure the bus all this week. its cheap at £22 a week but it takes 1hr50mins, meaning i have to catch the 6am bus and don't get home until 7pm.
admittedly my route is a public transport nightmare and is split across 2 counties, but the car is just so much easier despite the increased cost.
the only upside of the bus is i get to listen to the chavvy kids from the college going on how they drank a full four cans of carling last night and didn't feel hungover!
one of the scrotes was telling his mates he was fronting his insurance for the car he just bought [its well ace apparently, only cost £150] so i am in two minds to follow him home [same stop as me] and passing his reg. onto the police.
by train, it takes 1hr 45mins plus 30mins walking, cost = £23.60 return!
i'm having to endure the bus all this week. its cheap at £22 a week but it takes 1hr50mins, meaning i have to catch the 6am bus and don't get home until 7pm.
admittedly my route is a public transport nightmare and is split across 2 counties, but the car is just so much easier despite the increased cost.
the only upside of the bus is i get to listen to the chavvy kids from the college going on how they drank a full four cans of carling last night and didn't feel hungover!
one of the scrotes was telling his mates he was fronting his insurance for the car he just bought [its well ace apparently, only cost £150] so i am in two minds to follow him home [same stop as me] and passing his reg. onto the police. Public transport can be good and convenient, when I worked in Norway I very rarely drove and relied on the punctual, clean, public transport system.
Here in Britain I rarely use public transport, I used to get the train to work a few years back and it was convenient, couple of hundred yards from the station to work and the same at the other end, but hanging around a cold draughty station platform waiting for a train that was often late and always overcrowded put me off.
Here in Britain I rarely use public transport, I used to get the train to work a few years back and it was convenient, couple of hundred yards from the station to work and the same at the other end, but hanging around a cold draughty station platform waiting for a train that was often late and always overcrowded put me off.
I try not to as often as possible for several reasons.
As my car is in the garage at the minute, I decided to rely on the train to get into town yesterday. As it was a nice day I decided to walk. 40 minutes later and arriving at the train station there's a sign telling me that due to a fault all trains are off and a rail replacement bus was in service.
So a 20 minute train journey (what it normally takes) turned into over an hour on an overcrowded bus in the blasting heat. What a waste of time - they even had the cheek to charge full price as well!!
As my car is in the garage at the minute, I decided to rely on the train to get into town yesterday. As it was a nice day I decided to walk. 40 minutes later and arriving at the train station there's a sign telling me that due to a fault all trains are off and a rail replacement bus was in service.
So a 20 minute train journey (what it normally takes) turned into over an hour on an overcrowded bus in the blasting heat. What a waste of time - they even had the cheek to charge full price as well!!
I guess it is fantastic if you live at your departing station and work and the arrival station (which, I imagine, discounts roughly 90% of users). Then if it runs on time/at all is great (25% probably do if you're lucky... despite what the figures say!!).
This gives you the result that it is great for 2.5% of users...
hmmmmm
This gives you the result that it is great for 2.5% of users...
hmmmmm
I'd be prepared to consider public transport, but only if it suited my needs. I leave for work at 6:15am to be there before 7, and finish at 7pm. The only way to do this by bus starts at 8am, and would get me home for roughly bedtime. That's with bus stops right outside work and at the top of my road.
If I were to go by train, I'd have to leave home 15 minutes earlier to drive to the station, and the return ticket would cost £5.50 a day. I doubt I spend that much in petrol for the rest of the journey TBH.
If I worked 9-5 I'd probably think again.
If I were to go by train, I'd have to leave home 15 minutes earlier to drive to the station, and the return ticket would cost £5.50 a day. I doubt I spend that much in petrol for the rest of the journey TBH.
If I worked 9-5 I'd probably think again.
its the fact its time sensitive that does for most people outside of large towns & cities. the one i caught to work this morning runs once per hour, and i virtually had to jump in front of the bus this morning to get him to stop despite flagging him down from 100yards away. jumped on the bus and got an earful, then because it was so early i took the bait and had an argument. great start to the week!
only place i;ve lived in where i'd take the bus was mcr along the oxford road/didsbury route - 50p any journey and a bus every 2-3mins. that said, it'd take an hr to get from didsbury into town, the same as it took me to drive from the city centre to north wales each day.
only place i;ve lived in where i'd take the bus was mcr along the oxford road/didsbury route - 50p any journey and a bus every 2-3mins. that said, it'd take an hr to get from didsbury into town, the same as it took me to drive from the city centre to north wales each day.
In Turkey I can expect a dolmus (bus) every 5 minutes max and it will stop anywhere to pick me up or drop me off. I pay 40p and it will take me to the next town. That is how public transport should be.
In this country me and the missus would have to fork out nearly £8 for a return trip into town, which would involve waiting half an hour for a bus, sitting on chewing gum covered seats for 40 minutes while it takes us round the houses, contending with gobby kids, and then planning our day around catching the return journey and another 40 minutes travelling...
Why would I use the bus when I can drive into town in 5 minutes, pay to park for a few hours and still have over £3 in my pocket over public transport.
Trains? It's cheaper to drive or even fly in some cases.
National Express? It is cheaper for me to drive to Heathrow/Gatwick, stay in a hotel overnight and have a weeks parking on site than it is for two of us to get a taxi to the station and back and pay for 2 return tickets on NE...
In this country me and the missus would have to fork out nearly £8 for a return trip into town, which would involve waiting half an hour for a bus, sitting on chewing gum covered seats for 40 minutes while it takes us round the houses, contending with gobby kids, and then planning our day around catching the return journey and another 40 minutes travelling...
Why would I use the bus when I can drive into town in 5 minutes, pay to park for a few hours and still have over £3 in my pocket over public transport.
Trains? It's cheaper to drive or even fly in some cases.
National Express? It is cheaper for me to drive to Heathrow/Gatwick, stay in a hotel overnight and have a weeks parking on site than it is for two of us to get a taxi to the station and back and pay for 2 return tickets on NE...
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