How much does it cost you to get into work?

[Tamas]

One should admit though, that apart from the crowdedness (not on trains), British public transport seem to be of high quality. At least in and around London, and compared to it`s Hungarian counterpart.
I am especially impressed by the trains. Kind of expensive, most certainly, but well maintained trains run quite often etc. Try the Hungarian railroads with the 50 years old never-washed leather seats, the constant delays, horrible employee attitude, and despite all that, expensive tickets (plus millions of pounds worth of state support above that each year), and you will see how well the Brits have it here.

[CountDeMoney]

with the 50 years old never-washed leather seats,

We call that "distressed", and pay a shitload through the nose for it.

[Gups]

I suspect it's the quantum of public subsidy.

[Brazen]

I'm still scarred by the experience of travelling from Leningrad (as was) to Moscow on a Communist Russian overnight train as a teenager.

[Syt]

One should admit though, that apart from the crowdedness (not on trains), British public transport seem to be of high quality. At least in and around London, and compared to it`s Hungarian counterpart.
I am especially impressed by the trains. Kind of expensive, most certainly, but well maintained trains run quite often etc. Try the Hungarian railroads with the 50 years old never-washed leather seats, the constant delays, horrible employee attitude, and despite all that, expensive tickets (plus millions of pounds worth of state support above that each year), and you will see how well the Brits have it here.

When I was on the Budapest subway in 2006, a Russian colleague said, "Hey, we used to have these trains at home!"

[lustindarkness]

@ 15 gallons of gas a week for me.

[Berkut]

It isn't about the cost, but the time.

If I have a 8:30am meeting, I have to be awake by 8:25 at the latest to ensure I can make it downstairs in time.

[Barrister]

I kind of liked the Budapest subway...

[Syt]

Buying a ticket was fun, though. "What ticket do we need?" "No idea, it's all in Hungarian." "Let's take the most expensive one." "How much is it?" "Under 2 Euros." "Ok."

[Tamas]

 

[Valmy]

Seriously though.  Hungarian was total gibberish to me as a poor Indo-European speaker.  Might as well printed the signs in cuneiform.

[Syt]

We played a game, trying to guess what ad posters tried to sell. Often you had smiling people and some slogan/brand name underneath. With other languages you can at least get a rough idea what they might sell, but not there.

[Warspite]

I'm on the verge of being able to walk to work, which will be nice. But for the sake of this thread, I have been paying £112 monthly for a London zone 1-2 travelcard.

[Ideologue]

My serious answer is that I live about one mile away, possibly slightly less.  I walk whenever I can find the will to get up before 9 am and drag myself in.

I spend less than $10 a week on gas for work-related purposes, perhaps no more than $5.

[Duque de Bragança]

Why is public transport so friggin' expensive everywhere but here?

Anglo-saxons way of handling services to the population?

Yeah, but getting around Frankfurt according to DdB is still almost three times as expensive as getting around Vienna. And Vienna has a rather good public transport network.

Exception viennoise? The Viennese like to copy the French and improved on it this time, like the croissants in reverse if you will.
Frankfurt public transport is not state-owned or at least partially private AFAIK
As for London, I was not impressed unlike Tamas with its small, cramped metros and lack of S-Bahn/RER (regional rapid transit) though they are about to attempt to fix it with Crossrail. People might be more civil though. In Frankfurt, even executives will behave like "French" ghetto scum in the U-Bahn, S-Bahn, tram or buses.
Night buses were comparable if perhaps funnier with people opening beer bottles with their teeth and some remarkable cover of the Ace of Spades.

PS: buses might be the best thing about British public transport, yeah. The Brits are much more disciplined in queueing than Germans in this aspect.