You just *have* to have a go at this

[Rawwr]

www.transportdirect.info

Plan your journey to work with public transport. A fun game to play for all the family, so long as you live outside of London.

Normally I can make the 17 mile journey to work in about 20 minutes on the bike or 40 minutes in the Ka. Using public transport, It'll take me 2hrs 19mins and cost me £17, with only 27 minutes of fast walking required!

Well roger me with a rolled-up copy of The Guardian! I'm off to sell my bike and Ka now!

[Plotloss]

On a recent journey

Public transport would have taken twice as long and cost more than twice as much.

Genius.

Is this the relaunched version of this website? It was around a while ago but it got withdrawn because it showed up public transport to be a bit shit.

Hardly the newsflash of the decade but there we go...

[Rawwr]

'a bit shit'? Is that like saying 'the sun is a bit hot and a bit big'?

[thekirbyfake]

According to that (and I believe it) public transport cannot get me to work before 10:23am

I live 27 miles from the office.

[E38]

transport direct said:

Sorry we are currently unable to obtain public transport journey options using the details you have entered.

Mostly due to the fact that my nearest bus stop is 1 hr walk, nearest train station is 2 hrs. And these stops are only passed through twice a day.

So if I am to be 'green' I must stop working and die....

And yet I still have to pay the taxes claimed to be for encouraging the use of public transport....

[Ballistic Banana]

PMSL I live 1.1 miles away from my work. It reckons it will take 30 mins if I bus and walk,which includes 9 min walk bus for 2 mins and a 19 min walk. or 7mins if i take my car..

[z4monster]

Fab! I would have to leave 10 minutes later than normal to arrive 1 hr 20 mins later than I should. I can't travel to work for my start time of 07:00 by public transport. Lol it just shows how bad public transport really is. I have to travel 6 miles north of home to travel 25 miles south.

Outward journeys for Mon 04 Dec 06 arriving by 08:30
Option Transport Changes Leave Arrive Duration
1 Bus, Train, Walk 3 06:09 08:29 2hours, 20 mins
2 Car 0 07:33 08:30 57 mins / 29.9miles

[Parrot of Doom]

I just entered the details of one of my last jobs.

In my car it took just over 90 minutes to get from Manchester to Middlesbrough.

According to that site, public transport would take 3.5 hours.


Shove public transport tbh.

[hairydave]

previous and next job.... public transport takes three times as long, cost three times as much, althou oddly it seems to think the trip takes 45 min longer than it actually does by car, and i don't speed...

[Rawwr]

frazer guest said:

public transport, shove it up your arse!

That's a great slogan.

[Rawwr]

Goatse, shove it up your arse? Maybe not.

[J111]

It manages (by ignoring: the fact that I'd drive to the station in ten minutes or get a taxi - rather than take the bus, the congestion charge, rush hour traffic than can easily add 90 minutes, central London parking, cheap advance tickets) to make the nightmarish car journey on a route I do regularly (my house>Westminster) seem like a much better idea than the painless train journey. Not sure that's what they had in mind

[Mannginger]

30 minute car journey versus 1 hour 15 minute public transport, including 2 changes (read: standing in the cold and wet during winter)

It'll be more expensive via public transport too and I have the security of knowing that my fares will increase above inflation every year.

Wonderful idea to tempt me onto the train and bus network!

Phil

[plug]

15 minutes buy car verses a 1 hour 7 minute bus/walk journey time.

[nda]

this is great! Where do I sign up?

45 minutes of walking and 2 hours of bus and train and all for just £40 (not including parking).

Currently one hour in the car.

So that's it then - I'm selling all my cars today and will grow a beard.

[Ubertractor]

WooHoo!!!!

Bus travel time quoted is equal to my real car time (not the one they quote which is 10 mins longer).

But, the bus requires a 6 minute walk at the start and 17 minutes at the end. They don't know their bus stops either as I know it goes closer than they suggest really, but this is all academic as I physically can't walk that far without keeling over.

They can't quote for costs either but I bet it's a lot more on the bus than the £1 for my diesel...

[crmcatee]

45 minutes in the car.

Or.. 2H 48M and a cost of approximately £40 each way.


So that's a commuting time that's almost as long as my days work would be. (Oh and I can't get to the office until 30 minutes past the start of core operating hours)...


Yes - you're certainly selling me on public transport. Not.

[Mannginger]

Ubertractor said:

...(not the one they quote which is 10 mins longer)

Yes they managed to add another 20 minutes onto my car journey, so I quoted an average when I posted above. I suspect that I could easily add 20 minutes onto their quoted travel time for the Public transport too!

Phil

[Don]

For me it gives four options. Each one hilariously silly. Even so its "Bus/Walk" option takes 40 minutes and the Car option just 16.

In fact I could walk it in 40 minutes, bike it in fifteen and in my car the journey takes just eight minutes or so.

I expect it works in London? Surely doesn't in Basingstoke.

[Raify]

This is the re-designed website that cost £50meeeelion the first time round, yes?

It still thinks I can walk 3 miles in 19 minutes....