On 24 Sep, 21:57, "Peter Hucker" wrote:
It's just not viable.

For a laugh (and because they just built a station next to my house) I decided to check the feasability of a train to work. *It takes twice as long and costs twice as much as by car. *(1.5 hours instead of 45 mins and 16.50 instead of 7.50)

Silly treehuggers.

Is this the same throughout the country? *I'm in central Scotland.

Nope. Train for me takes 1h05 - 1h20 depending on when I leave, car
takes 1h25 in good traffic

I also get to watch TV/read a book/reply to trolls while I'm on the
train. Either that or work, and hence leave early.

Also get to go to the pub after work

Cost wise train costs about £13 a day, car costs £11 a day in petrol
alone -- £45 a day in inland revenue mileage.

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Paul Weaver writes:

On 24 Sep, 21:57, "Peter Hucker" wrote:
It's just not viable.

For a laugh (and because they just built a station next to my house) I decided to check the feasability of a train to work. *It takes twice as long and costs twice as much as by car. *(1.5 hours instead of 45 mins and 16.50 instead of 7.50)

Silly treehuggers.

Is this the same throughout the country? *I'm in central Scotland.

Nope. Train for me takes 1h05 - 1h20 depending on when I leave, car
takes 1h25 in good traffic

For me, train takes 20 minutes, door to door; the car 45-60. Cost of
train: about fiver; just parking the car costs rather more than that.

I'm in central Scotland, too.


I'm in central London. A 45 minute journey by car I can probably walk in
15 minutes.

--
eric
Live fast, die only if strictly necessary.

In article ,
August West writes:
For me, train takes 20 minutes, door to door; the car 45-60. Cost of
train: about fiver; just parking the car costs rather more than that.

Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the driver
and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the student-
discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses. Working out the bus-fare
is extremely complicated and effectively non-deterministic. I can't help
thinking that the bus company must like it that way.

Car takes 12-18 minutes for 6.8 miles (excluding outliers like snow/ice/fog
and obstruction by accidents) which is a little bit more than a litre of fuel
for the trip. Car-parking at works costs ~50p/day. Considering I have the
car anyway, the timing and arithmetic is pretty clear.

I'm in central Scotland, too.

Likewise. Still getting to work by car. If I need to do _anything_ other
than just go to work and come back (bit of shopping, etc.), which I do maybe
one day a week) bus is a no-hoper.
--
SAm.

In message , at 11:22:38 on Thu, 25 Sep
2008, Sam Nelson remarked:
If I need to do _anything_ other than just go to work and come back
(bit of shopping, etc.), which I do maybe one day a week) bus is a
no-hoper.

I can travel around on the bus all day for a shade over £2 (because I
have a pre-pay card) or £3 on a turn-up-and-go basis. Parking at the
station is £8 per day and you'd be lucky to find any parking in my city
centre (Nottingham) elsewhere for less than £2 per hour. I work from
home, and the parking there is free.
--
Roland Perry

In article ,
August West writes:
(Sam Nelson) writes:

I'm in central Scotland, too.

Likewise. Still getting to work by car. If I need to do _anything_
other than just go to work and come back (bit of shopping, etc.),
which I do maybe one day a week) bus is a no-hoper.

But then you essentially, and unusually, work in the countryside, so
your pressures are almost entirely the reverse of a town-worker like
me.

Pfft. I drive past a city twice a day!

For example, my office contains about 100 engineers, but there are
only 5 parking spaces for the two floors we are on. The ank & transport
company on the 4 floors above have the same ratio of staff: parking
spaces. But we are very near shops, etc.

That ank business, it's a killer.
--
SAm.

Sam Nelson wrote:


For example, my office contains about 100 engineers, but there are
only 5 parking spaces for the two floors we are on. The ank & transport
company on the 4 floors above have the same ratio of staff: parking
spaces. But we are very near shops, etc.

That ank business, it's a killer.

Tank? It's one way to turn rush hour into crush hour, I suppose. The
mpg's not brilliant.

Tom

In message , at 13:50:24 on Thu, 25
Sep 2008, August West remarked:
For example, my office contains about 100 engineers, but there are
only 5 parking spaces for the two floors we are on. The ank & transport
company on the 4 floors above have the same ratio of staff: parking
spaces. But we are very near shops, etc.

That ank business, it's a killer.

Tank? It's one way to turn rush hour into crush hour, I suppose. The
mpg's not brilliant.

bank dank hank lank rank sank tank wank yank

Take your pick as to the most likely!

Angel Trains is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland; HSBC Rail (formerly
Eversholt Leasing) by err, HSBC; and Porterbrook by Abbey National; so
that's three possible "bank and transport" companies.
--
Roland Perry

Not in Scotland now, but bus costs me nothing (Old Codger's Pass),
long-distance coach is half fare.

Stopped using a car...

Motorbike for fun, though.

--
Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

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from August West contains these words:

Ah, I misrepresented (missed out a comma): it's one bank, and one
transport company. And it's none of the banks menitoned above, either.
The transport company does trams.

So does Banksy

--
Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

In message , Roland Perry
writes

Angel Trains is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland

They sold Angel Trains for £3.6 billion to a group lead by Babcock &
Brown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7452205.stm
--
David