So How Much Is Your Commute?

[Evanivitch]

I do 80 miles a day in a banger getting about 60 MPG. Oil change every 6 months, and tyres every 18 months. But I'd be paying that, if not more, on a nicer car if I had a shorter commute. MX5 for the weekends then.

[paul789]

okgo said:

paul789 said:

Any cheaper this way?: https://www.commuterclub.co.uk/nationalrail

Surely people are bright enough to work out that an interest free credit card is the way to do an annual ticket?

Surely?

[HappyMidget]

okgo said:

Surely people are bright enough to work out that an interest free credit card is the way to do an annual ticket?

Loan from work is the same, but not when you are looking for a new job not in London though.

[Munka01]

About 1k a year for a 10 mile each way bus journey in Sydney.

[davepoth]

If I take the car as entirely for commuting (and more than 80% of my miles are to work and back) then I'm at around 22% of take home pay on commuting.

[bad company]

davepoth said:

If I take the car as entirely for commuting (and more than 80% of my miles are to work and back) then I'm at around 22% of take home pay on commuting.

That's a frightening percentage though you do have the car for other uses.

[xjay1337]

Saleen836 said:

43034 said:

Mine would be very reasonable, if it wasn't for the fking Severn Bridge toll. £6.60 a day, a long with fuel.

fking hate paying it, don't get used to it!

You will be better off soon...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-358125...

I would be intersted if your employer covers the cost of the bridge, or if that was part of the overall salary package.
I would begrude spending £30 a week extra to get to and from work, enough to drive a man crazy!

[AB]

£0 if working from home.

£1 round trip if going into the office.

Ridiculous amounts being paid here, the salaries must be worth it.

[okgo]

davepoth said:

If I take the car as entirely for commuting (and more than 80% of my miles are to work and back) then I'm at around 22% of take home pay on commuting.

Wow.

Why?!

[shep1001]

Work from home, so I bill it to the company as soon as I move off the drive. Never paid a penny to commute since I started work 25 years ago, hoping to keep it that way too for the next 15-20 years

[43034]

xjay1337 said:

I would be intersted if your employer covers the cost of the bridge, or if that was part of the overall salary package.
I would begrude spending £30 a week extra to get to and from work, enough to drive a man crazy!

Some employers do, others (mine!) do not. Jobs are better paid in Bristol than in say Newport/Cardiff so even factoring in the bridge, people are still better off.

Not sure whether you're being sarcastic about the extra £30 but more than doubles the cost of my weekly commute. Luckily I work nights so there's never a queue but heading towards to Bristol on a Friday evening and seeing mile after mile tailbacks at the tolls would send me insane. Paying £6.60 to sit in traffic for hours.

[towser44]

Nothing here as I work from home. If i have to go the Office, after petrol etc I probably earn about £20 each time I go.

[RizzoTheRat]

Until last week my weekly commute was about:

• Wife drops me at the station, probably costs about £1 running the car
• £23 for a return to Gatwick on the train
• €100-150 for a return flight to Schiphol depending how far in advance I booked it
• €9 euros each way on the train to Den Haag
• €3ish each way on the tram to Scheveningen

The weekday commute was a bit cheaper though, €1.50 on the bus and a 1km walk, or a 3.5km walk to work in the morning, and then a 4km run (to the nudist beach), whip off my trainers and a further 2km run down the beach to my flat.



Now I'm back to a 9 mile each way drive so probably about £4 per day. Not as nice as running down the beach but then again I've gained 6-7 hours every Sunday and Friday.

[xjay1337]

43034 said:

Some employers do, others (mine!) do not. Jobs are better paid in Bristol than in say Newport/Cardiff so even factoring in the bridge, people are still better off.

Not sure whether you're being sarcastic about the extra £30 but more than doubles the cost of my weekly commute. Luckily I work nights so there's never a queue but heading towards to Bristol on a Friday evening and seeing mile after mile tailbacks at the tolls would send me insane. Paying £6.60 to sit in traffic for hours.

I see.

And no I wasn't being sarcastic, it would seriously fk me off if I had to pay tolls.
For me going into London it's OK at the moment until I think it's september 2020hen they put the toll on motorcycles over 13 years old. Assholes. (basically you need a biker newer than 2007 which mine should be by then lol).

[Crumpet]

okgo said:

Wow.

Why?!

Not that outrageous, really. How many people would bother owning a car (or at least a second family car) if they didn't need it to commute to work? I'd hazard a guess that it would be quite a few.

And even if they earned a good salary of say £2500 take-home a month it's quite easy to spend £250 a month on the car itself (lease/PCP/depreciation - whatever) and then another £250 on running it. That's an easy 20%, more if they do the same on a lower salary.

[okgo]

Crumpet said:

Not that outrageous, really. How many people would bother owning a car (or at least a second family car) if they didn't need it to commute to work? I'd hazard a guess that it would be quite a few.

And even if they earned a good salary of say £2500 take-home a month it's quite easy to spend £250 a month on the car itself (lease/PCP/depreciation - whatever) and then another £250 on running it. That's an easy 20%, more if they do the same on a lower salary.

Quite a few? I don't need a car but I've got one. Do about 2000 miles a year.

Personally I wouldn't think spending £500 of £2500 each month on a car was a great idea, but many do I'm sure.

[Saleen836]

My commute to work in my 12 year old Astra van costs approx £6 a day for fuel

[va1o]

£10 a day in fuel, happy enough with that

[Ki3r]

One job is 2 miles away, so pennies. The other I get 45p a mile to where ever I'm going. Parking costs are refunded as well. Or 25p if I use my bike and can park in the works car park on that (not meant to park cars there)

[paolow]

My commute is about a 5 mile round trip. This costs me nothing other than an hour and a half of my time per day as I walk but the excersise keeps me active and, sadly, I can also hunt Pokemon there and back too.
Only downside is that work are getting increasingly snarky about the holes in my trainers (no dress code at work) and so I might have to buy a new pair...
A better paid job with better prospects is right there a 40 min train journey away - but I am more than happy the way I am.
I used to live a realtively easy commute by train into London. Hated it - and the looks on the faces of my fellow commuters broadcast that they hated it too. That was my catalyst - and I wouldnt go back.