Travelling to work

[Casdawer]

Evening gents, hope you're all having a good weekend.

I was just wondering how much you lot spend on getting to work? I used to spend £100pm going to London everyday and now have to spend £160/200 to drive to work and i personally think that's quite a lot but then again it might not.

So fellow OcUKers - what's your average monthly spend on petrol/bus/train etc..

 

[timmothy]

Spend about £130 in fuel, thats with a 1.4 litre engine, its the stupid cornish roads, they are aweful for fuel economy

 

[kae2]

£260 a month in fuel alone, more than a quarter of my wage....

 

[Scam]

I'm surprised people using cars are spending over £100pm, I always assumed it was us peasants on public transport that are getting ripped off

I pay £116 for a zone 1-3 travelcard in London. Probably going to get a loan from work for the annual ticket and pay £103 or something, before they raise the prices in January.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Around £300 a month - but then my commuting car has either a 2.9l V6 Cosworth engine or a 4l V8, depending on what mood I'm in.

 

[timmothy]

i earn about £450 a month so i spend over a quarter of my wages on fuel to get to work

 

[Worthy]

~£100 per month. I noticed it was going up every week, and then I pumped my tyres up.

That's around 14 miles a day.

 

[Biohazard]

Its £43 if I get a monthly bus pass, if I drive probably around £80 pcm.

It's hard for me to work out though, as if I have the car I invariably do stuff straight after work etc

 

[kiteloopy]

£0

work provide a free bus from reading to bracknell.
soon to be considerably more, moving to richmond.

 

[borich_planner]

A round trip of 4 miles a day in my car, and work pay me £94 a month private fuel allowance and 12p a mile when going on site.

 

[Murf]

I cycle the 10 miles each day so apart from replacing items due to wear and tear on my bike. Nothing. I stay fit in the process too. Win.

 

[MiNxYyY]

I fill my car up with £51 worth of petrol and that gets me to work and back 5 days a week for a month.

 

[hux]

About £100 pm, i do 75 miles per day 5xpw plus shopping/gym etc

However i give a lift which provides £25 pw so it's a win/win atm

 

[ins0mn1ac]

I fill my car up with £51 worth of petrol and that gets me to work and back 5 days a week for a month.

Same ere, plus free parking

 

[Trifid]

Probably around £50? I don't really pay attention to it, when my car says refill, I put petrol in it.

 

[reilly]

£0

work provide a free bus from reading to bracknell.
soon to be considerably more, moving to richmond.

Who do you work for if you don't mind me asking?

I spend £110 a month on driving to work. I live in the middle on the country side, so no buses, no trains, nothing. Where if I lived in the city (Nottingham and have to get to Leicester). I could get a season ticket on the train and it would cost roughly £75-£85 a month.

I have been travelling and recently went to Berlin and the Germans definately know how to do public transport. They even apologized for a train leaving under 1 minute late, and they are regular as clockwork.

Only if the UK had this attitude to public transport, but why bother when they are making billions on the 'drivers'.

Sorry sidetracked

 

[NiCkNaMe]

£300 on the nose, excluding wear and tear. That's approx 650 miles a week.

Got to change soon - paying to get to work, - pah!

 

[MagicBoy]

Zilch. I walk, car stays at home.

If I need it during the day then I walk home then drive wherever.

 

[manic111]

Around £30 a month in rickshaws

Will be up to the usual £60 a week or so in the car once I get home though.

EDIT: Actually, have petrol prices changed much since early August?

 

[Bear]

£50 driving to Luton and back, return flights to Edinburgh approx £280, taxis from airport to work and back to airport £45. All costs are approx for a calendar month but costs are tax deductable.