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Re: Busy Bee goodies
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Thu, 18 May 2000 09:58:53 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> In lugnet.loc.uk, Jonathan Reynolds writes:
> > All this talk about £1 a mile has to be put in perspective - if you regularly
> > carry passengers the alternatives are more expensive (tube, trains, buses,
> > trams) in most domestic situations. I drive about 35,000 per year in a car • and
> > do about 1/1000th of that on public transport. I'm not proud of this, I'd
> > rather use an efficient train service but it costs too much ion the UK unless
> > you are travelling alone.
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> Again this depends on the total cost of the journey and taking into
> consideration the true pence per mile rate, not just petrol.
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> Even ignoring the true pence per mile rate, my family of four can go into
> London at weekends much cheaper on the train than just the cost of petrol and
> parking alone. I live about 45 miles away. Costs say 3 gallons with some city
> traffic, say £10 petrol. Then around £18 parking. Plus and tube fares.
> Whereas it costs us about £15 for the four of us using my Network card (1/3rd
> off plus kids travel for £1) which also give unlimited tube travel too.
> London might be an exception, But even more local Reading costs me at least a
> gallon of petrol plus £1.50-2.00 per hour depending on car park, whereas all 4
> of us go in on the train for £6.00 and can stay all day.
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> Of course travelling in the rush hour is totally different, and I could
> probably buy a second hand car for the price the train would charge 4 of us
> then. It would be around £55, whereas the car would still cost the same as
> weekends.
Even so, Jonathan's 35000 miles adds up to a lot of time. If we assume an
optimistic average speed of 60mph, 35000 miles will take him a mighty 583.3
hours - or 24 days and seven hours. How many books could he have read in that
time?
Scott A
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> regards
> lawrence
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| (...) Or for people who are self-employed or work in jobs where you can do reading/computing type work at home - how much work could you have done in that time - and how much is that worth financially? (even after deducting time to walk or drive to (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Again this depends on the total cost of the journey and taking into consideration the true pence per mile rate, not just petrol. Even ignoring the true pence per mile rate, my family of four can go into London at weekends much cheaper on the (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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