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- From: tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham)
- Subject: Bus vs Car Costs (Was: Re: City Traffic)
- Organization: BT Group Computing Services, Birmingham, UK
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:22:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.122213.6563@its.bt.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk> roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson) writes:
- >Its a shame that the cost of catching the bus from point A (or rather the
- >nearest bus stop) to point B (or some point near it) costs as much as if
- >not more than driving from point A to point B.
-
- While the marginal cost of driving is certainly lower, the actual cost
- of driving is usually a good deal higher than catching the bus. I could
- buy a year's bus-pass with just my insurance premiums and still have
- enough left over for a newspaper to read on the bus every day; to say
- nothing about depreciation. The money it takes to run a car buys a lot
- of public transport.
-
- Your mileage will vary; the relative costs will depend on your travel
- pattern, access to buses, car parking fees, particular bus-pass schemes,
- number of passengers, costing in your time, exposure to car thieves etc
- etc.
-
- Tim.
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- Tim Oldham, BT Group Computing Services. tjo@its.bt.co.uk
- ``Sounds good to me''
-