Please don't use your car use the train instead.

[The PIT]

Yes and the latest plans are to increase the fares. Not put more carriges on or run extra trains. The idea is that increasing the fares at peak periods will reduce overcrowding and encourage passengers to go off peak.
One problem many companies don't run flexi time schemes so the poor passenger will be either forced to either use the car or get a job elsewhere.
By the way some passengers are already paying £5000 pounds a year.

[Technoid]

I might have been wrong...
But I'm also starting to believe that mr. Common Sense IS really DEAD!

[Lizzard[MPE]]

By the way some passengers are already paying £5000 pounds a year.


for what??????????

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Originally posted by Lizzard[MPE]
By the way some passengers are already paying £5000 pounds a year.


for what??????????

a season rail ticket!

[agallag]

I'd assume just for train passes. For example, in toronto, we have the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) for in-city transit, and GO (Government of Ontario) Transit for commuter trains. If you need both to get to work (which I would if I didn't drive) it would cost you:

TTC Pass: $93.50/month
GO: $50.50/10-ride ticket or ~$202/month (this ticket is based on distance, this is what it would cost me personally).

Total: $295.50/month or $3546/year.

£5000/year works out to $12169.89 in canadian dollars, so yeah, that's a little steep

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i thought it was like £1.50 a day in london.. am i confused?

[Sasq]

Time for you guys to start pushing your companies to pay for train fare like they do here...

[KvHagedorn]

TP you really need to run for Parliament.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
TP you really need to run for Parliament.

I wouldn't last two minutes the PC crowd would cruify me even if I did say the truth.

[Drizzt]

TP you really need to buy an FJR