Tory smoke and mirrors. This is what dodgy retailers have been doing forever. Overinflating the regular price to make the “discounts” look amazing.
Rail prices are ludicrous.
My girlfriend lives in Brighton so I regularly travel down there to see her. I thought as I do it so often, maybe I should be a bit more eco-concious and catch the train down there instead.
I had a search on trainline, £65 for a return Fri -> Mon. The same journey in my little car, £15 in fuel.
Especially with how things are atm, I simply can’t justify paying over 4 times more to catch the train.
Privatised rail is an injustice. When I lived in Sydney last year, I paid equivalent of £30 a week total to catch a train and bus to and from the office – a 3 hour round trip – Mon to Friday. I commute the same distance here and it costs me over £50 a day for my train and bus fare (fortunately, I only need to do this trip once a week!). Trains and buses in Sydney are largely owned and operated by the state. I know the UK rail system is more complex and services far more areas than in Australia so even if we had a publicly operated system here fares probably wouldn’t be equivalent, but it would have to be a lot cheaper than it is right now. The cost of rail travel seems to put a break on so much economic activity – deterring local and regional tourism, forcing people to make sacrifices elsewhere in their budget to afford their rail ticket – and is doing huge, unnecessary damage to the environment.
Germany is locking their slow speed train tickets to 9 Euros over summer.
The difference in approach between Germany and the UK is funny but rather sad.
Only cheap trains I’ve ever found are directs to London. Everyone else has to suffer.
To visit my mum, its cheaper for me to rent a car for 10 days and drive there than it is for a return train ticket.
That should never be the case. Something is deeply wrong.
To visit my mum, its cheaper for me to rent a car for 10 days and drive there than it is for a return train ticket.
That should never be the case. Something is deeply wrong.
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Tory smoke and mirrors. This is what dodgy retailers have been doing forever. Overinflating the regular price to make the “discounts” look amazing.
Rail prices are ludicrous.
My girlfriend lives in Brighton so I regularly travel down there to see her. I thought as I do it so often, maybe I should be a bit more eco-concious and catch the train down there instead.
I had a search on trainline, £65 for a return Fri -> Mon. The same journey in my little car, £15 in fuel.
Especially with how things are atm, I simply can’t justify paying over 4 times more to catch the train.
Privatised rail is an injustice. When I lived in Sydney last year, I paid equivalent of £30 a week total to catch a train and bus to and from the office – a 3 hour round trip – Mon to Friday. I commute the same distance here and it costs me over £50 a day for my train and bus fare (fortunately, I only need to do this trip once a week!). Trains and buses in Sydney are largely owned and operated by the state. I know the UK rail system is more complex and services far more areas than in Australia so even if we had a publicly operated system here fares probably wouldn’t be equivalent, but it would have to be a lot cheaper than it is right now. The cost of rail travel seems to put a break on so much economic activity – deterring local and regional tourism, forcing people to make sacrifices elsewhere in their budget to afford their rail ticket – and is doing huge, unnecessary damage to the environment.
Germany is locking their slow speed train tickets to 9 Euros over summer.
The difference in approach between Germany and the UK is funny but rather sad.
Only cheap trains I’ve ever found are directs to London. Everyone else has to suffer.
To visit my mum, its cheaper for me to rent a car for 10 days and drive there than it is for a return train ticket.
That should never be the case. Something is deeply wrong.
To visit my mum, its cheaper for me to rent a car for 10 days and drive there than it is for a return train ticket.
That should never be the case. Something is deeply wrong.