How much does it cost you to get into work?

[garbon]

$112. We don't do zones.

[Sheilbh]

My Streatham friends bus in to Waterloo for work

Streatham to Waterloo's not that bad. Or do they then get the train down to where you are?

[KRonn]

I'm about 3 miles from work and I go home for lunch, so it's about 12 miles a day commuting, 60 miles a week, about 240 miles a month which is less than a tank of gas, so I'd say about $30.00 monthly.

[Gups]

My Streatham friends bus in to Waterloo for work

Streatham to Waterloo's not that bad. Or do they then get the train down to where you are?

Streatham to W'loo is horrendous in the rush hour. Takes a good 35 minutes just to get through Brixton.

[Maximus]

About 40 minutes if I walk. I can sometimes save time if I take the bus; it depends on when I leave. Buses only run every half hour so if I just miss one it is faster to walk than to wait for the next one. My university ID is also a bus pass though, so either way it costs nothing out of pocket.

If I drove I would have to pay for parking which would be ~$8/day, in addition to gas and maintenance on the car.

[katmai]

Maybe $50 a month, most of time shooting out on location, meaning they pay me for my travel costs.

[MadImmortalMan]

I wonder what human civilization pays per year on commuting as a whole. Not just in money, but also in time and externalities like pollution and infrastructure support and everything. It has to be staggering.

[The Brain]

Don't know, my employer pays for my transport pass.

[Barrister]

Starting in January I started taking the bus / LRT.  Which cuts my costs nicely down to $24 per week.  If I was driving it would cost me a tank of gas every week and a half, which would run ~$60-$70.

Still takes me an hour each way during rush hour.

[Tamas]

My Streatham friends bus in to Waterloo for work

Streatham to Waterloo's not that bad. Or do they then get the train down to where you are?

nah, it is usually I who visit them, by train.

[Ed Anger]

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[alfred russel]

At my old employer, I got charged something like $10 a day to park at the office. There was a parking lot where I could pay $2-$3 a day to park a few blocks away, and that was where I normally parked.

That might be reasonable in a place like London or NYC where public transport is an option, but I think I was getting screwed.

[PDH]

Let's see.  For 8 months out of the year I ride my bike for the 5 minutes to get to work - cost is whatever little wear and tear that adds.

December through March I mostly drive, again about 5 minutes because of the horrendous Laramie traffic.  Cost is not much, I refuel my Honda every now and then - no more than once a month.

[Richard Hakluyt]

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But to make up for it my wife has been working 3 days a week down in London and spending about £125 for each return ticket.

[Brazen]

Just checked whether I could commute by bus. Three buses and over two hours each way. Unpossible!