How long is your commute and £££?

MonkeyMan said:
Good man :D

Place I worked at years ago had a dodgy alarm system and the poor woman who was made a key holder spent pretty much every weekend having to go in and turn the alarm off. That taught me never to do it.
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Poinless setting an alarm that keeps going off. After a few times people will just ignore it. As will the police and security company.
 
50 mile round trip, share with my sister.

I drive 3 days she does the other two.

Cost for me is fuel, tend to fill up twice a month which is approx £80 (includes personal journeys) and £1.66 for the tunnel as I get the local resident tariff.
 
24 miles each way. 45 minutes in the morning but over an hour getting home. £110 to £130 a month in fuel. Though that includes the weekly food shop miles.
 
Moved house and job last year, was a 15 min walk to the office before then. Now got a 30 min bus ride each way and cost is £86 a month :( although that bus pass does grant me some freedom of travel around West Yorkshire so not all that bad.
 
Nick1881 said:
£400+ a month in fuel, is that by private jet or helicopter? :p
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£400 a month isn't a lot tbh. Well it is and it isn't. I was easily £50 a week and only driving 15 mins each way. So double that to 30 mins each way and I'd likely be around £80-£90 a week. It's easily done if you have ford mustang, bentley or most sport cars for instance, not everyone drives an eco box or a diesel. Ask anyone who drives something like an R8, GTR, Range Rover Sport (petrol supercharged version) etc as a daily what they spend on fuel. It's all relative.

Basically OP's question is very subjective. You have the extremes of some people who work from home so spend nothing and have zero travel time. Then you will have others who take 2 hours 1 way to get to work and spend a fortune. It shouldn't matter what others do. Do what suits you. My commute like I said was 15 mins and cost me £50 a week in fuel. Now it's 15 mins in the opposite direction and costs me nothing as I get a lift most days. On the odd occasion I'll take my car it costs £7 in parking plus probably £10 in fuel. So £17 a day on the odd occasion, which IMO is a lot but it's rare and I enjoy the drive and since it costs me £0 most days I don't care about the odd 2-3 times a month.
 
2.3 mile each way every day. Used to get yearly bus pass but it went over £600 so I bought a bike and 10-15 mins per journey best thing i could have done. Cost 0 now and only replacement gear which is rare.
 
4.3 mile drive into Manchester city centre which takes around 15 mins and then a 10 min walk to work. Petrol costs are £10 per week or so.

I'm lucky to work 12-9 shifts and only 4 days a week so traffic is non existent really. I used to do the same journey whilst working 9-5 and it was double the time and 5 days a week instead of 4.
 
19 miles each way, typically a 30 minute journey now that they've finished the A1 Western Bypass works. Costs about £5 in fuel each day.
 
Freefaller said:
It's funny when people baulk at my season ticket yet spend £400 a month on fuel.

I am jealous of some of your commutes though :(
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My issue is less the cost and more about the service you're getting for the money. Just shy of £4k for a service that is frequently delayed or cancelled is a bit more galling than if it were reliable albeit I know that you can claim some of it back.
 
semi-pro waster said:
My issue is less the cost and more about the service you're getting for the money. Just shy of £4k for a service that is frequently delayed or cancelled is a bit more galling than if it were reliable albeit I know that you can claim some of it back.
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On that you're not wrong! Especially now they are down to 1 train an hour at the moment.
 
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