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Original poster

...to ask how much do you pay per month on bus/train fare for your commute?

66 replies

IdRatherHaveABowlOfCocoPops · 17/02/2018 16:23

I am going to be paying £50 a month. The trip is 4.8 miles. I'm wondering if I should get a bike though doubt I'd be fit enough and would drop down dead before I reached work.

Just curious.

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PickleSarnie · 17/02/2018 17:10

My husband pays £9000 a year. Mine is about 6.5K (depending on how many days working from home I can wangle)

YTho · 17/02/2018 17:12

Approx 20 miles or 1.5 hours (each way) commute. Used to pay £200 per month but changed to a bus ticket and now pay £100 month. Takes only 10-15 mins longer each way but worth it for the money saved.

Rosti1981 · 17/02/2018 17:13

£10.40 per day, or free by bike (13 miles)

Tisfortired · 17/02/2018 17:18

£77 per month for a metrolink four weekly ticket in Manchester.

I also have to drive to and from the tram stop which is about 10 minutes.

frieda909 · 17/02/2018 17:19

£130 a month, 10 months of the year. I have a season ticket loan through work, so it comes off my salary before it’s paid to me each month and then I get two ‘free’ months at the end.

sexnotgender · 17/02/2018 17:21

Mine is £50 a month but my work pay for it.

Kbear · 17/02/2018 17:26

130 per month - 1-4 zones train only

murmuration · 17/02/2018 17:26

Ee gads, I shouldn’t have calculated that. Over £100. The journey is 5.5 miles one way, but the bus only goes 4.5 of them and I walk the rest.

Thinking about the bike thing, too OP. People definitely do it -I pass many of them going the other way walking DD to school, so they’re going even further.

Original poster
IdRatherHaveABowlOfCocoPops · 17/02/2018 18:15

To those who ride a bike is 4.5 miles doable? it's been about 9 years since i last went on a bike. I assume i'd be sore at first... i like the fiver for extra chocolate, that would be so me!

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halfwitpicker · 17/02/2018 18:17

Can't believe some of these prices

Original poster
IdRatherHaveABowlOfCocoPops · 17/02/2018 18:17

I don't mind the £50 it's just it goes through a uni campus and it's always packed, late and smelly!

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BitchQueen90 · 17/02/2018 18:22

£20pw on the bus. Cycling not an option, I wouldn't get there on time. I work school hours and have a tight gap between the school run and starting work.

murmuration · 17/02/2018 18:37

I tried to work my way up to it last year, planning to cycle in once I could get halfway there and back. But didn’t have enough time for all that practice.

My new plan is to wait until it’s a bit more like spring :) and ride the bike in one day, leave it locked up, and ride it back another. Hopefully starting one round trip a week and then slowly increasing? Unless that first ride in does me in and my bike is forever stuck in town...

PaperdollCartoon · 17/02/2018 18:40

£440 a month, 1.5 hours door to door each way.

We’re moving and soon it’ll be £265 a month, but the same amount of time.

That’s just me. DPs petrol currently £200 a month, but soon will be about £80

Sheepasaurus · 17/02/2018 18:42

£53 per month bus pass. 5-10 minute journey, 15-20 minutes getting on site (hospital) depending on the traffic.

PickleSarnie · 17/02/2018 18:50

I used to cycle 7 miles each way from Clapham to City when I lived in London cocopops Totally doable. And quicker, cheaper and more pleasant than the firey pits of hell aka the Northern Line. Do you have showers at work?

Snoopyokay · 17/02/2018 18:52

400 pounds a month Sad damn you London!

Asthenia · 17/02/2018 19:09

£160 a month for 25 mins each way

Pardalis · 17/02/2018 19:35

On an annual season ticket (travel card zone 1-5) £187 per month. I've just changed jobs so had to refund my ticket and now doing pay as you go train only and waking only both ends. There is weekly capping but haven't quite figured it out yet! About £11 a day maybe

carefreeeee · 17/02/2018 19:36

Nothing. I cycle. It's great - free exercise and a brilliant start to the day

Bunbunbunny · 17/02/2018 19:37

£317 per month London season ticket & train ticket £4K per year :(

PlanNumber · 17/02/2018 19:40

I pay £200 pm in bus fares for my DC to go to school! c. £400pm for DH to go to work. I walk...

carefreeeee · 17/02/2018 19:46

4.5 miles is nothing on a bike. Even a very unfit person can ride that in under half an hour. You shouldn't be sore (well maybe on the bum for the first week but only mildly).

V important to get the right bike. Doesn't have to be expensive but needs to be for riding on roads, avoid anything with suspension or cheap mountain bikes. You need smooth fairly narrow tyres, mudguards, pannier rack and good lights. Don't take rucsac, you just get sweaty and get sore bum. Saddle needs to be correct height and comfy, not tilted backwards.

Bojangles33 · 17/02/2018 19:48

Probably £150 a month on fuel, not to mention the cost of the lease for the car which I probably wouldn't have if I didn't have to travel so far for work ☹️

carefreeeee · 17/02/2018 19:48

Also think about route, you will find your favourite ways of getting about that avoid difficult junctions etc over time

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