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How much is you're weekly/monthly commute costing you?

talksr
talksr Posts: 296 Forumite
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edited 23 April 2012 at 11:15AM in Budgeting & bank accounts
Good morning Money savers, I am doing a little research on how much fellow forum users are spending on getting to and from work.

I live in a very rural location which means my travel costs are quite high.
I ride my bike to local train station and then take the train to work. With fares on the increase, it may be time for me to look at alternatives.

One of my friends told me:
At the moment, it is costing me around
£315.00 per month just in fuel.
This works out at around £78 per week.

This sounds massive.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
    I pay about £30-£40 a week to get into uni twice a week. Its a 30 mile round trip.
  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
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    I paid more....home to station £4 by taxi...too early for buses and no direct route to station. Return ticket to closest station near work £16. Walked to the office....and finally a taxi home from the station £4. So that's £24 a day by public transport. £120 a week.

    If I drove it would be a 60 mile round trip and cost £9 a day in petrol plus £11 in M6 toll charges plus the other standing costs of running a car (insurance, tax, mot) at about £8 per day. So £28 a day excluding the capital cost/depreciation of the car itself. If I avoided the M6 toll it adds about 30 minutes to my journey each way and is about 2 miles shorter.
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  • talksr wrote: »
    At the moment, it is costing me around
    £315.00 per month just in fuel.
    This works out at around £78 per week.

    How many miles a week do you do?

    I currently pay around £55 per week and cover around 300 miles.
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  • Broadwood
    Broadwood Posts: 706 Forumite
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    edited 12 March 2012 at 10:10AM
    I travel 13 miles each way to work. It would be impractical to do the journey by bus as I work unsocial hours and anyway it would take about 2 hours using 3 buses each way and probably cost as much getting a taxi.

    So, by car the return trip uses 0.5 gallon of diesel @ £6.50p per gallon (or £1.43p per litre). If I'm in a rush I can get less than 52mpg, but conversely if I take it easy I have got as high as 58 mpg. I make that a total of £16.25p per 5-day week not including tyres servicing insurance depreciation etc. etc.

    Going back 10 years, I had a job 4 miles from home and rode a Honda 90. My fuel bill then was about £1.50p PER WEEK. :o
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  • MoneySaverLog
    MoneySaverLog Posts: 3,232 Forumite
    About £77 a month for a bus and rail pass, which is a bargain as I use it all the time and on the evenings 3 nights a week. A further £40 in petrol a month, though I find I'm using the car less and less and only going to work in it when I have free parking, which is not everyday.
  • stclair
    stclair Posts: 6,844 Forumite
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    Nothing I have the pleasure of being able to walk to work it takes me about 15 minutes.
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  • MoneySaverLog
    MoneySaverLog Posts: 3,232 Forumite
    stclair wrote: »
    Nothing I have the pleasure of being able to walk to work it takes me about 15 minutes.

    Wish I could do that, take me a good 3-4 hours though just to get there :-(
  • I’ve just worked out mine, given the toll bridge rise and just the fuel, this works out to a huge amount


    65 miles round trip x 50mpg x 1.43 ltr = £8.45
    Bridge Toll = £6.00
    Total Per Day = £14.45

    Total Per Week £14.45 x 5 = £72.26

    Total Per Year £72.26 x 47 weeks = £3,395.99

    The toll is the Severn Bridge, I work in Bristol and live in Monmouthshire. My partner works and lives in Monmouthshire, hence one of us will end up paying the toll were ever we live.
  • stewil18
    stewil18 Posts: 73 Forumite
    I pay around £250-£300 a month - i do a 100 mile round trip every day.

    I recently purchased a diesel to help save me money on the daily trip - about £3 difference per day, this is offset by the loan required to buy the car but hopefully saved by the appreciation value of our other car now that the mileage will remain low.

    Swings and roundabouts (and boy, are there a lot of roundabouts!)
  • InsideInsurance
    InsideInsurance Posts: 22,460 Forumite
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    £399.40 a month for train & tube ticket. Walk to and from the station most days but on the occasion I use a taxi then it is another £4 one way.

    If I were to park it would be another £87 a month plus petrol
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