To think £75 a week to get to work is a bit steep

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Why is public transport so expensive??

My DH pays £366 a month for the train and bus, which is always running late.

It's a joke.

YANBU. It mustn't be financially worth your while going out to work. Unless you were on a fantastic wage and even then its ridiculously steep.
Why does it cost so much how many modes of transport per day do you have to take.

YANBU. It's not unusual though. DH used to pay £280 a month for a 35 minute train journey where half the time he couldn't squeeze onto the 2 carriage train.

7 pounds fifty for a train ticket isn’t a crazy amount surely, depending on the distance.

I used to pay £18 a day for a 35 mile train journey. On the slowest train ever. Was so glad to finish that job.

£22.40 a week here for four days on the bus.

Which is never on time either way.

I’ve started driving again and am spending more than that on fuel.

Luckily I’ve been given a parking permit otherwise I’d have £15 per day parking as well.

I pay £50 a week in fuel, add in running costs for the car and it's easily over £75 (insurance alone is £28 a month).

I wouldn't say it's disproportionate for a commute as long as the pay is worth it.

And for dd to get to sixth form I pay £615 a year for a train pass and then £54 every 4 weeks for a bus pass (she has to do train then bus). So over 1k a year while at school!

£23 per day. depends where you work and where you live!

Public transport should be made to be cheaper than cars. It's ridiculous the cost you have to pay.

Dh pays £35 a day.

I'm £56 per week and I only work 3 days!! 30min train journey.

I pay £391 a month and i am only in the office 3 days a weeks! Still works out cheaper than paying daily.

Looking forward to getting that money back while I am on maternity leave!

I pay £104 to get to new train stop. Used to pay £144 to reach old train stop (monthly). Driving would cost same or more, and train means I get to cycle part of journey which is good in lots of ways.

My sibling used to spend a quarter of her salary on commuting to London. They got another job outside London which they drive to and save a ton

I used to pay over £6000 per year so around £500 per month. That was a commute of around 75 miles into London though (plus tube/travelcard).

Most long distance public transport (the stuff that's expensive) is not used by low paid, limited opportunity workers, but by well paid workers who choose to live a long distance from work.

Subsidising the rich commuter who chooses to live in a leafy village and work in the center of a city so that those with more limited options can get to work cheaper makes no sense. Direct the subsidy money directly at the low paid.

I pay £700 a month! But I have a lengthy London commute from the SW.

Public transport in the U.K. is a joke. High prices and poor service. Having said that, the OP is saying nothing unusual. Luckily I don’t need to use public transport for my current job, though I pay around £200 a month on petrol for my commute plus of course there’s the running costs of needing a second car.

Though I should add, I used to live in the US and my same commute there (length wise) would cost a lot more!

It is outrageous OP and PPs.

My parents live down the coast and I wanted to visit tomorrow as my DDad is very ill ,
A return, off peak, would cost me £42.50 !! I will pay it , I love my Dad, but that amount is a lot for me.

It is probably not dissimilar for me in a car (however no public transport would get ds to school and me to work where I live) but about 50 in petrol, tax& insurance and then car maintenence on top.

I used to pay £680 a month! Now it's £240 but the commute takes 30 mins longer despite living so much closer, involves a horrific daily battle to get on the tube and makes me feel stressed before I get to work. It's awful!

I have a railcard and use a cash back site and pay just short of £10 a day to commute by train into London - a 30-minute journey. It would be heading towards £15 a day without the railcard. The same distance up North where my parents live (similar deal, commuter town into a major city) costs less than half that.

The station car-park costs £7 a day, no on-street parking and no cheaper alternatives.

Because I don't work full-time a season-ticket is useless. And a weekly train ticket isn't worth it because they cunningly make it for 7 days instead of 5 so there's no saving. The promised 'part-time season tickets' have never materialised, nor have the carnets they were talking about at one point.

Oyster top-ups add a big chunk on top of all that....it's frightening.

I turned down a job 15 miles away when I found parking was nearly impossible and that it would cost me £46 a week in fares.

The train fare wasn't too bad (under £30) but the bus to the station and back (2 mile walk, not doable with arthritis!) would have been another £16.50 on top!

If I had taken it, I'd have been stuffed now as they cut the buses and there isn't one early enough to get me there by 9. I could drive to the station, of course, but it costs £6 a day to park.

The joys of living semi-rurally...