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- From: roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Bus vs Car Costs (Was: Re: City Traffic)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.132745@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:27:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.122213.6563@its.bt.co.uk>, tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:
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- |> 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.
- |>
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- Are you taking into account the hidden costs of:
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- Taxis late at night / in strange towns where you don't know
- the bus times
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- Train or other transport costs when travelling further afield
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- Hiring vehicles when you want to move anything more than
- just yourself
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- The truth is that even if you are using public transport to commute you
- will still run a car for the other uses ie shopping and so you will incur
- the 'hidden costs' anyway.
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- Maybe the solution to city conjestion is more teleworking ?
-
- -roj
-