Average commute to work
 

Considering today's cost of travel I am curious how much Mr Average spends on travelling to and fro financially but also the weekly amount of time.

Example-----
30 miles each way by car using 9lts fuel=£12:00
Journey time 45mins each way=1.5hours

Weekly £84 and 7.5hrs @ 45times p.a.= £3780 and 337.5hrs
Add another £200 for one service plus tyre wear

Question being ----is your job worth the time and money after tax for the benefits or would it be more beneficial to work locally for a lesser salary
but have more free time
Purely hypothetical as I am aware the job market is very restricted

Re: Average commute to work
 

My journey is a bus to the station, train to Liverpool Street, tube to Baker Street, bus to Lord's.

On the way home I get a lift from the station with Mr LPH when possible as the bus service is infrequent and unreliable.

Bus to town - single £2.30 a day so around £500 a year
Travel card for train, tube and London buses £4020 a year
Taxi home from station late (buses stop at 8pm) approximately 4 times a month at £10 per trip £450 a year

So that's £5k a year plus the costs of owning and running a car.

And my commute is 2 hours each way.

But there's only one Lord's Cricket Ground so I'm a bit limited on where I could work.

Re: Average commute to work
 

If i motorbike it to work (which i have done so for the last 6 months or so as i sold the cari had ) £18 - £19 of super unleaded does me and that`s for a 30 mile round trip.

When the weather is warmer i usually ride my push bike. As for 4 wheels i couldn`t say as i haven`t used it for work yet, I bought one about 4 weeks ago but never use it (only for Band stuff).

Rgds

Re: Average commute to work
 

Bike runs at 44-46mpg
Takes 20 minutes, about 16 miles.


I still want a car though :( The current 2.0 tdi im borrowing is only just getting 44mpg even if driven like a granny. Hence wanting a 1.4 tdi. Its maths im still working out. But I own my bike, so it just costs me whatever it does to maintain. Insurance is £140 fc protected yadder blah.

Ideally, a 1.4 tdi Lupo or Arosa, or even a Smart car is the obvious choice for cheap motoring with some comfort, but then yours spending £2-£3k for a decent model, and unless you got that money sitting around, its another monthly expenditure.

For me, travelling 1 hour each way, at 52 miles per day total, into central London, was getting too much after 8 years. Financially worth it as the pay was MUCH higher, but was it worth my time and danger to life travelling into London, not really.

If I went back to the city, i'd take the huge anal lubing costs of the HSTrain into London. 15 minutes to central london by train, instead of 1 hour by normal train, or 1 hour by motorcycle.

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About 1 pair of slippers per year, although last winter I bought some snow slippers for when I brought the milk in.

My commute has just got longer... now the good weather has arrived I've moved from my office next to the kitchen to the conservatory.

Re: Average commute to work
 

40 miles a day, 200 per week.
Car = 30mpg so About £40 per week.
Bike = 50mpg so About £24 per week.

I'm lucky as I get 22l per week fuel paid for by work which would cover my car use if not for good driving roads and a heavy right foot.

Re: Average commute to work
 

25 miles a day, roughly 30 minutes each way.

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20 miles a day. But can use the free bus from the end of the street:D

Re: Average commute to work
 

I drive 150 mile round trip each day = 750 miles each week.

I use approx 55 ltrs of diesel a week = Around £78 each week.

Journey times 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.75 hours to get home. 3.25 hours a day = Approx 16 hours of commuting a week.

34500 miles for the year
£3588 at current fuel prices
£250 servicing costs
£200 tyres
£200 other comuting related costs.
736 hours of driving

So well over £4k a year spent just to get to work.
A month of my life a year spent just getting to work and back.

Basically I would be prepared to drop around £6k of my salary for a job which was in the same town as I lived. I would save two thirds on my commute costs and the other third I would exchange for better quality of life.

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8 miles each way so 16 miles a day.
16x5=80 per week.
Per year is 4160 miles. Take off the off days (A/l, bank holidays, work from home etc)
3360 miles per year.

I cycle normally about a week out of a month. (Hopefully going to be more soon).
On the motorbikes I sometimes take a longer route (16 miles each way) for the fun of it which obviously increases costs.

I'm lucky in that my car will do 55-60mpg easily on my drive, and it's only 20 minutes away with no traffic.