Cost of commuting

[Asosbabe]

Do other countries pay these commuting costs? We're 25 miles from central London and flexible ticket is over £23 a day. Car park is £12.90 a day , no bus to get to station. Parking restrictions for about a mile around the station and people that park just over a mile away get their cars keyed by pissed off locals. Is this the same in other capital cities?

£37 for a 45 minute journey direct to London bridge 🫠

Mine’s about £59 return + £15 parking. Also from Kent - wonder if we take the same train I’m just a few stops less than you 😂

Luxembourg has free public transport for all (but very high taxes).

I used to pay €1650 per year for the DART commuter train to get 12 miles from the suburbs to city centre in Dublin as a tax free ticket through a work scheme, and €800 annually for parking at the station up to 2023.

In Brussels, I pay €1.89 per journey (because I top up my ticket with 10 journeys for €18.90) on public transport - which can include changing lines in that journey. Most places are within walking distance of a public transport line and they are well connected and easy to manage journeys to most other places so there is far less need to drive for commuting.

I live 9 miles outside of the centre of a big northern city, there is 1 bus service for my village and only 1 bus that can get me into work on time, that’s if it is running and it fills up so it’s miserable.

I drive in now, but have to leave at 7am as there is nowhere to park in town so you have to get there super early, in order to get a spot in one of the £20 a day parking multi stories. Honestly when I get there today at around half 7 there will be a queue. There are some park and rides dotted about, but to get to most of them I have to drive past my place of work, or drive miles and miles in the opposite direction 🤦‍♀️

Its infuriating. There are a couple of train stations but all around 4 miles from my house, again parking is £15 a day, plus the £100+ a month train ticket and the 40 minutes extra time added to my commute.

Thankfully I can do most of my work remotely but I do miss going in to the office and having a social life. I switched jobs during covid and used to work in a business park off the motorway- the commute was awful but parking was free!

£95 per day - 50 miles exactly from London. It is much cheaper after 9.30am.

I am from Kent as well and it’s extortionate. I’ve luckily been able to go in a bit later recently meaning I swerve the peak travel costs!!

£8 per day to park, £12.5k annual season ticket 🤢 for an hours journey into Euston! There’s a reason I don’t do it…

No, it's crazy, though my commuting costs have gone down as I only go in two days a week and enjoy that balance.

Hour and ten here to get into Liverpool Street or an hour into Stratford. £90 return per day plus parking (though I cycle to the station which may be worth looking at).

Privatised rail…

Same from Suffolk/Norfolk

i was in Manchester recently and Andy Burnham has done an amazing job dealing with the costs and reliability of public transport.

Having grown up in London and now living in the north, there is no way you could persuade me to move back down south, those prices are insane!

Yes, but when I was growing up in Stockport the roads in the morning were just as bad as London, and that was in the late 1980s/1990s. Hate to think what it's like now. And you have Northern Trains who are an absolute shitshow. I much prefer my Kent to Charing X commute and actually enjoy it, albeit I've never done it five days a week.

We Pay an extortionate amount to live in central-ish Edinburgh so we can walk to work. We prefer this as it lets us see our kids too. When people can’t afford to live near where they work it damages their family life and leads to parents being exhausted.

The high house's prices in the UK damage our nation in so many ways. It’s disgusting.

To the person suggesting you park in a side street and walk - for a start you've already mentioned the restrictions, and secondly this is incredibly annoying for residents of the actual street. Surely when you move somewhere you factor these costs in? Mine is around £25 a day plus an extra £6 for the tube part. But being walkable to the station was (almost) the only absolute must-have when we bought.

DD commutes. Great salary for young person but cost is high. It’s hybrid (3 days in office) but the 6 month probabtion is 5 days a week in office. So it’s extortionate. She’s holding on for probabtion end but couldn’t sustain this.
We pick up and drop off at station as they want £12 a day to park! Can’t park anywhere near station for parking restrictions. It really needs an overhaul.

I live in Spain and public transport is free for residents - it has been for several years now. It’s meant to encourage people to use their cars less (not sure how well that’s working!)

Similar 25min journey Linlithgow to Edinburgh is £10.80 return but that’s mainly because Scotland have scrapped peak time rail fares.

Sounds great. How is Scotland paying for this and higher education? Is there massive debt?

Wow, I live the same distance from my nearest city - but in the middle of nowhere, and not in the south east, and pay £20 a day return. I would have expected London to be much more expensive!

I'm in Australia, about 45 miles from Melbourne, and a return train ticket is equivalent to about five pounds, full fare. Concession (low income / students etc) is half that price. All people under 18 will travel free everywhere from 1 January. There's also no extra cost to use metro public transport once in the city, such as buses and trams, once you've paid that fiver to get into the city. It's much, much cheaper than driving in and paying parking, and quicker (takes 55 mins to get into the CBD).

Flaming hell !

I buy a annual bus ticket, £800 for this year but I think it's going to rocket next year to pay for the ( deservedl ) rise in bus drivers pay.

Dunno but a lot of people pay high tax than they would in England

Omg...these are crazy prices. You must be on big salaries to justify these commuting costs, or does your employer subsidise?

£6,50 to get into central Manchester from my local metro stop £2 on the bus or park for free! Love living up north