I pay £49 per month for my bus pass, this covers all travel. I get 1 bus to work and it's a 10-15 min walk. Sometimes I'll get a bus back as there's a stop right outside and sometimes I'll walk. If I got a daily ticket it'd be £3.40 per day. Once I've finished my probation I'm going to get an annual pass for just over £400 and pay it back at £35 per month, saving £14 a month.
I walk to work, so nothing.
It's a 10 minute walk down a road with hedgerow's either side, followed by a walk along the riverside. Lovely walk and it's free:)
I know wages in London are higher than average but surley after you have to pay for transport, plus the astronomical price of housing even on the outskirts of the city, the benefit of the higher wages is just eaten away and then some. I always think only the Queen and that rich Russian bloke can actualy afford to live anywhere near the centre of the city, anyone else has to haemorrhage money to afford so much as a rabbit hutch, regular folk seem to have to live miles and miles away and pay a small fortune in train fares just to get to work.
That can be true but my mortgage is £500 rather than unaffordable so would be £1,500 rent in SW London so I am saving overall - of course the compromise of a 1.5 hour commute is loss of time. One which I won't do forever...
Yes, my husband gets an annual PlusBus because he can get it as part of the Season Ticket scheme through work and because it works out cheaper than buying direct from the bus company.
With the rail fare increases I suspect my season ticket will go up. I pay £750 a year for a bus, train and ferry ticket. I haven't had a pay rise in years either. I still consider myself lucky to those in London paying £5,000!
Used to cost about £5 a day in petrol but now it costs £5 in petrol plus about £20 for parking and rail. Nigh-on £400 a month
I know wages in London are higher than average but surley after you have to pay for transport, plus the astronomical price of housing even on the outskirts of the city, the benefit of the higher wages is just eaten away and then some.
True, but those who stayed in London pay less to commute and the price of their property rises more. It probably balances out - provided you can afford to buy at all. It is those that can't get a mortgage who have if hardest. Workers in London chose to pay either in commuting costs and time or more expensive properties which is a lifestyle choice.
Currently it is £1400 for a. Zone 1-3 travel card and the value if my flat has risen at double what I pay in mortgage for the last couple of years. It's easier to endure financial commitment like a mortgage when you are effectively paying it to yourself as savings each month and can cash in if you really needed to at any time. It is still hard but hardly hardship.
£47 for a monthly bus pass, which gives me unlimited travel for that month - not too bad considering how much other people have to pay to get to work, although I only earn just above minimum wage.
Nothing. Work from home so I just roll out of bed each morning, wander downstairs and bring the laptop out of hibernation then I start my daily work of monitoring Facebook, Twitter and emails for the animal rescue
£28 a week for a bus & train pass. Have to pay an extra £13.50 a week now cos I got a second job in December. It was £27 but they put it up a £1. The local return fare went up by 30p from £2.90 to £3.20. All the other bus passes went up by 50p & fares got 10p added on. It's getting ridiculous now.
At the end of the three years do you just drive the car off a cliff or something? As Presumably it should still be worth a reasonable amount.
Fair point; of course there will be a residual value to deduct from the £15k cost of the car.
However, it's interesting that CRTHD is the only car-commuting poster who's attempted to calculate the full cost of using a car. Everyone else has mentioned only the fuel cost, which is just a small proportion of the total cost.
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It's a 10 minute walk down a road with hedgerow's either side, followed by a walk along the riverside. Lovely walk and it's free:)
It costs my boss about £80 a week though.
That can be true but my mortgage is £500 rather than unaffordable so would be £1,500 rent in SW London so I am saving overall - of course the compromise of a 1.5 hour commute is loss of time. One which I won't do forever...
Yes, my husband gets an annual PlusBus because he can get it as part of the Season Ticket scheme through work and because it works out cheaper than buying direct from the bus company.
Husband is £38 per month, a daily ticket would be £4 so if he had to pay daily he would be £80.
Currently it is £1400 for a. Zone 1-3 travel card and the value if my flat has risen at double what I pay in mortgage for the last couple of years. It's easier to endure financial commitment like a mortgage when you are effectively paying it to yourself as savings each month and can cash in if you really needed to at any time. It is still hard but hardly hardship.
7 miles...and you don't cylce?
Fair point; of course there will be a residual value to deduct from the £15k cost of the car.
However, it's interesting that CRTHD is the only car-commuting poster who's attempted to calculate the full cost of using a car. Everyone else has mentioned only the fuel cost, which is just a small proportion of the total cost.
Scratch that, apparently it has been reduced to £4.00.