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How much money do you spend on travelling to work?

I work around 27 days a year on an ad hoc basis.

I take the tube to work, tube back home or tube and bus home if I finish late, around 11.30pm.

It costs me either

£5.35/£4.70/£4 to get to work and back home. I live in Zone 2 in London, and need to travel through Zone 1.

How much money do you spend on travelling to work? What form of transport do you use? and does it take a small or significant amount of your weekly salary?
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  • princessdon
    princessdon Posts: 6,902 Forumite
    edited 13 October 2012 at 6:55PM
    My oh it's approx £300 pw.

    Train taxi tube etc

    Mine £30 pm by car It's all relative to the salary though.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    £40 a week by car
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  • xxJudexx
    xxJudexx Posts: 422 Forumite
    I will be spending at least £350 a week when I start my new job. It's quite depressing thinking about it but It's still better than no job!
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I am about to start a job - calculated the cost and I figure fuel and anticipated car running costs will be £80/month. Bound to be some unexpected car running costs as it ages though....

    Car journey is 30 minutes each way when nobody else is on the roads.... more like 45-50 probably (yet to see) with commuter traffic. Bus end to end (including walking) is 1.5 hours each way and costs £50/month.
  • Tiglath
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    £131.40/month on zones 1-3 travelcard (or £1368/year when I'm organised enough to get an annual travelcard). Usually the train but occasionally bus + tube if the trains go foobar or I do something socially. It's a relatively small part of my net salary.
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  • Lokolo_2
    Lokolo_2 Posts: 1,016 Forumite
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    I'd say I spend about £40/month petrol to get to work, but then I work for a train company so I travel free to one of my jobs, just the drive to the station and the drive to my second job makes up this cost!
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    xxJudexx wrote: »
    I will be spending at least £350 a week when I start my new job. It's quite depressing thinking about it but It's still better than no job!

    £350 a week! What method of transport is that?

    I spend 0 a week usually as I walk or cycle. If I get the bus it is £4 per day.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    I buy an annual ticket and it costs £4300 (due to go up in January).
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  • FATBALLZ
    FATBALLZ Posts: 5,146 Forumite
    Well I had to buy a car for my current job, so I'm counting the total cost of owning and running the car here + petrol to get to work. It comes out at about £350/mth.

    And then (my half of) the childcare bill is about the same again. Quite depressing really.
  • annie_d
    annie_d Posts: 933 Forumite
    My husband drops me off and picks me up. I don't know what the cost it.
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