Daimo B
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Originally posted by Colin
Public transports a joke anyway, I had to get a bus into town one day when my car was in for a service, £1.80 to go about 3 miles.  wtf, thats almost 4 quid there & back. Theres no way it would cost anywhere near that to drive my car
Busses suck. In fact, public transport sucks ass, period
You would be suprised 
Take your tax, insurance, servicing and consumable costs, fuel, tyres etc....
I thought this about my bike (Vs Train into city). Adding up cost of gear, fuel, servicing etc, i was paying far more than the train..
Adding it all up, cars are not cheap toys anymore
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Colin
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As would I if going out for a bevy. Ive been out in edinburgh a few times lately & could jump on the bus at Hairy Twat Uni (where I was staying) & go into town center (princess St) for a pound, roughly 10 mile route!! Thats more like it!! 
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Colin
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Originally posted by VXR
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Originally posted by Colin
Public transports a joke anyway, I had to get a bus into town one day when my car was in for a service, £1.80 to go about 3 miles. wtf, thats almost 4 quid there & back. Theres no way it would cost anywhere near that to drive my car
Busses suck. In fact, public transport sucks ass, period
You would be suprised
Take your tax, insurance, servicing and consumable costs, fuel, tyres etc....
I thought this about my bike (Vs Train into city). Adding up cost of gear, fuel, servicing etc, i was paying far more than the train..
Adding it all up, cars are not cheap toys anymore
Im not convinced, if I used public transport every day id spend a small fortune, plus its not outside whenever I need or want it.
Bearing in mind I travel roughly 70 miles every day, id need about 4 buses and a train and a lot of walking just to get to my work. Id also need to leave the house about an hour & half earlier & get back equally later.
Then once your home need to nip to tesco to get some supplies...............taxi? Its going to get expensive!! I'll keep my car
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Daimo B
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Yeah you northeners have even less transport than we do.
Don't get me wrong, paying more is fine for me, as i've mentioned somewhere else, cars are a luxury, but not a nescessity.
My bike cost me more in total than paying for a yearly ticket (think it was about £1500py on the train). But thats x4 services (4k each), fuel every 3.5 days, tyres every 4000 miles, brake pads, gloves, jackets, trousers, boots (ok these last longer than 1 year), tax, insurance, MOT etc. Final figure was big.
BUT, as you've already pointed out. Having your own transport is SO much better. 2+ hours each way on the train Vs 45min-1+ hour on the bike. Can use my bike on other days, go for rideouts etc... Plus can come n go when I want.
I pay for that luxury 
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SVM 286
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Originally posted by VXR
Fuel is expensive yeah....
How much is your litre bottle of coke, or litlre bottle of water?
Petrol doesn't seem so expensive now eh
Pro rata no, but then most people won't be consuming 20 to 80 litres or more of cola per month/fortnight/week/etc.
Plus the above are frivolities and as such surplus to requirements, especially when we normally have good quality drinking water on tap in the British Isles.
I'm sure there are a lot of people that have a car purely as a luxury item, but many many more have to have a vehicle for transport and as such the fuel (along with insurance etc) is a costly neccesity.
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