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The reason people choose not to use public transport?

I'm off to London on saturday for the day. Going early in morning coming home same day. There 4 of us going by train it'd be £60 return each from suffolk. But by car i can get there, Pay to park then tube it in. Total cast for the day £70. Thats for all 4 of us. And i'm guaranteed a seat. Public transport is a complete rip off. What reason do you have for not using it?? or Do you prefer it?? Why? BADMTS. Suffolk to London is only about 50-60 miles. So now you know how bad we have it. And you petrol is still very cheap compered to ours. We pay 93p a litre.

Public Comments

1. Factor in the cost of your vehicle, the cost of insurance, registration and licensing. Also your vehicle depreciates the more miles you drive it. Plus right now gas prices are horrible. Here in America it is much cheaper to ride a bus. And people around the world use airplanes because it is much less time consuming. We have a BART train that takes you to San Francisco, but that's not really worth the money unless you want to avoid the traffic jams.
2. I try not to use for many reasons eg., too expensive, risk of being attacked, not reliable, uncomfortable the list goes on and on...............
3. sharing a confined space with smelly people....yuck
4. well, last time, a bum was sleeping with massive lice in front of me, next to me was a gross smelly couple making out, nsaty tounge and all! and a HO got off and got her dope from under the dumpster and shot up and got back on! MOST VILE
5. I live in Ohio and they do not have public transportation except for senior citizens in my area. Gas costs about $3.20 a gallon right now. They do have park and rides where people can meet to carpool together. I find it difficult to unwind from a days work sometimes if someone is with me. Its also difficult because I am a smoker. Ohio has a public ban where you can't smoke on public property so the only way I can smoke at work is in my own vehicle. I drive 50 miles round trip to work and it costs about $100- $120 dollars right now for the week. If my employer had a place for us to smoke or I would quit it would be more feasible for me to catch a ride. Sounds like you really get a bad deal with the transportation over there. It should cost less since you are not using as much fuel and vehicles and doing the environment a favor. That really doesn't make sense. It should be cheaper.
6. My car's off the road so I'm walking to work! The buses don't run at the times I need them, even when they do it cost's two-thirds more and that is taking into account all the yearly costs + fuel!
7. There is no public transport from the village i live in to the village i work in(10) miles away.Also as a trucker i have all my bags,food etc for the week to take so a bike is out of the question so i have no alternative but to go by car(a waste of money as it sits in the yard all week while i am away!)I also leave at 4 in the morning so even if there was a bus or train it would not be running at that time in the morning!
8. i never use public transport now. over the past couple of years i have used the bus twice and on both occasions i was verbally abused by another passenger. both times it was young guys full of either drink or drugs, being a bit loud but when they didn,t get the attention they wanted they became aggressive. i had to leave the bus at the next stop as the driver didn,t take any notice of what was going on. in your case, it,s been many years since i,ve been to London so i couldn,t comment on their service, but i think your right about your journey it would be cheaper and probably more convenient for you to take the car as long as you don,t take it right in to London.
9. here in the states we are too rich,too lazy and the bus (public transport in most areas is for the POOR! we will not use it until cars ar so expensive and inconvient as to force its usage-look at your own posting,if i read it right it was 60 -70 pounds to go somewhere (please forgive my lack of knowledge on your country)? that would be 130 us dollars which would be 33 gallons of gas and 10 left to park-so in my honda civic i could drive to san francisco,calif from my home in tacoma washington and back and pay to park (900 us miles!) and have enough left for a 99cent double cheese burger ! so until gas (PETROL) and urban access is priced out of middle class reach public transport in the us is a non-issue
10. too expensive dirty and unreliable a five minute car journey for me takes about an hour by public transport
11. labour have seriously undermined public transport. where I live the public transport on sundays and bank holidays are once every hour and a half making it vertually inpossable to work on these days and they double the fares.its better for me now I've passed my driving test and got a car. If the goverment made public transport a higher priority and drasticly inprove it for the better people may start using it more.
12. I agree - it costs a bomb. Even in my car that drinks petrol, driving is generally a cheaper option. Public transport is also generally dirty with lots of undesirables on it - I'm not saying everyone is but we've all seen a weirdo on a tube or bus haven't we? Maybe the terrorist threat puts some people off? If you drive, you get to where you want to go, not dropped off miles away! You might be able to tell I'm not a fan of public transport.
13. "Saver return" ticket from Ipswich Stn to London Liverpool St Stn costs £30 (£20 with railcard*). If you're going early morning/late night, then you don't need to worry about reserving a seat. If you're going to use the tubes or busses in London, consider buying an "oyster card" at Liverpool St (from the ticket office), they cost £3, and half the cost of all journeys on the tubes and busses (mine payed for itself in 2 journeys - any tube journey you take near Liverpool St will cost you £4 without one, £2 with - there are no peak-time prices on the tube). They don't ask for any details, you give them £3 and the money you want to put on it, and they give you a card. I do do use it, that route in fact (return journey - look for felixstowe or Norwich on the departure board). The Liverpool St Stn departure board rocks - you'll see what I mean. *Railcards cost £20 per annum, and are only if you can prove yourself eligible, they also require proof of ID and a passport photo, but you can buy them at the Ips Stn ticket office.