Public transport - why?

In article <87ej38sizw.fsf@news2.kororaa.com>,
August West <august@kororaa.com> writes:
> For me, train takes 20 minutes, door to door; the car 45-60. Cost of
> train: about fiver; just parking the car costs rather more than that.

Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the driver
and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the student-
discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses. Working out the bus-fare
is extremely complicated and effectively non-deterministic. I can't help
thinking that the bus company must like it that way.

Car takes 12-18 minutes for 6.8 miles (excluding outliers like snow/ice/fog
and obstruction by accidents) which is a little bit more than a litre of fuel
for the trip. Car-parking at works costs ~50p/day. Considering I have the
car anyway, the timing and arithmetic is pretty clear.

> I'm in central Scotland, too.

Likewise. Still getting to work by car. If I need to do _anything_ other
than just go to work and come back (bit of shopping, etc.), which I do maybe
one day a week) bus is a no-hoper.
--
SAm.

In message <ec5sq5-7lg.ln1@nntp.stir.ac.uk>, at 11:22:38 on Thu, 25 Sep
2008, Sam Nelson <sam@ssrl.org.uk> remarked:
>If I need to do _anything_ other than just go to work and come back
>(bit of shopping, etc.), which I do maybe one day a week) bus is a
>no-hoper.

I can travel around on the bus all day for a shade over £2 (because I
have a pre-pay card) or £3 on a turn-up-and-go basis. Parking at the
station is £8 per day and you'd be lucky to find any parking in my city
centre (Nottingham) elsewhere for less than £2 per hour. I work from
home, and the parking there is free.
--
Roland Perry

In article <87abdwsdi1.fsf@news2.kororaa.com>,
August West <august@kororaa.com> writes:
> sam@ssrl.org.uk (Sam Nelson) writes:
>
> >> I'm in central Scotland, too.
> >
> > Likewise. Still getting to work by car. If I need to do _anything_
> > other than just go to work and come back (bit of shopping, etc.),
> > which I do maybe one day a week) bus is a no-hoper.
>
> But then you essentially, and unusually, work in the countryside, so
> your pressures are almost entirely the reverse of a town-worker like
> me.

Pfft. I drive past a city twice a day!

> For example, my office contains about 100 engineers, but there are
> only 5 parking spaces for the two floors we are on. The ank & transport
> company on the 4 floors above have the same ratio of staff: parking
> spaces. But we are very near shops, etc.

That ank business, it's a killer.
--
SAm.

Sam Nelson wrote:

>
>> For example, my office contains about 100 engineers, but there are
>> only 5 parking spaces for the two floors we are on. The ank & transport
>> company on the 4 floors above have the same ratio of staff: parking
>> spaces. But we are very near shops, etc.
>
> That ank business, it's a killer.

Tank? It's one way to turn rush hour into crush hour, I suppose. The
mpg's not brilliant.

Tom

Not in Scotland now, but bus costs me nothing (Old Codger's Pass),
long-distance coach is half fare.

Stopped using a car...

Motorbike for fun, though.

--
Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

The message <87skroqrfi.fsf@news2.kororaa.com>
from August West <august@kororaa.com> contains these words:

> Ah, I misrepresented (missed out a comma): it's one bank, and one
> transport company. And it's none of the banks menitoned above, either.
> The transport company does trams.

So does Banksy

--
Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:11:51 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

> Someone needs to update wikipedia.

And, in other news...

--
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

> Someone needs to update wikipedia.

Don't let us stop you.

Sam Nelson wrote:

> Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the driver
> and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the student-
> discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses.

Don't suppose you have an easy link to anything about that, do you? It
could be worth suggesting hereabouts.

In article <gbkul5$1li$2@anubis.>, Huge@nowhere.much.invalid
says...
> On 2008-09-26, Bing Trotsky <ericjarvis@> wrote:
> > In article <gbinl4$5ot$1@anubis.>, Huge@nowhere.much.invalid
> > says...
> >>
> > Could be worse though. You might have had to go to Grimsby.
>
> I last went to Grimsby about 30 years ago. I don't recall it being particularly
> horrid.
>

It's the combination of the biting see breeze direct from Scandanavia,
the smell of rotting fish (though not from Scandanavia), and the added
bonus of the entire contents of just about every sewer in the Midlands or
Yorkshire emptying into the Humber to wash ashore at Cleethorpes.

--
eric
Live fast, die only if strictly necessary.