Car tax, fuel duty and pay-as-you-drive charging...

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:01 pm

Jude wrote:daughter is going to try the train again....

Have you seen the prices they charge these days?

It would cost around Â£120 for two of us to go to London for the day on the train

And that's without a tube or bus ticket.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:07 pm

a single to Leeds from Stonehouse to take Sarah back was Â£55, and it was a 5Â½hour journey with a BUS CONNECTION from Gloucester station to Birmingham New Street!!!! It cost Â£45 in fuel and takes 3Â½hrs there and 3Â½hours back.....

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:47 pm

The de-nationalisation of the railways has got a lot to answer for, as has the deregulation of many other companies.

Gas

Electricity

Telephone.

THEY SAID... "A wider choice will make the services cheaper."

YEAH, RIGHT !!!!!!!!!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:08 pm

I was thinking of taking the kids on the train today to Poole which is about 30 miles away but discovered it would have cost us Â£30 something for the 4 of us (that includes a 5 year old) - or about a fiver in petrol. Or less maybe.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:28 pm

I used to get the train to and from uni for weekends at home. Leicester-Horsham in bang on 3hours was Â£31 for me including tube!

Now when i have to go to London for work, East Malling to London a one day travelcard prior to 9 is Â£23.90!!!!! after 9 Â£14????? its ridiculous

icomefromalanddownunder · Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:15 am

Jude wrote:a single to Leeds from Stonehouse to take Sarah back was Â£55, and it was a 5Â½hour journey with a BUS CONNECTION from Gloucester station to Birmingham New Street!!!! It cost Â£45 in fuel and takes 3Â½hrs there and 3Â½hours back.....

Bl&&dy H#ll!!!!!!!!!

I can fly from Adelaide to Melbourne (800 km) for $39 on a good day. 'Course, the taxi to the airport costs more that that, and no-one wants to go to Melbourne anyway.

It was all very different pre-Virgin (God bless Richard and all who work with him), but we can now afford to travel around the Great Southern Land. It's usually cheaper to fly than take the bus (no leg room) or train (no leg room and disagreeable fellow travellers).

Petrol is about $1.10 per litre this week, and I'm really not into long distance driving after crossing the Hay Plain (miles and miles and miles and miles of nothing) with my parents and my two kids. Not sure who was worse - Dad, who woke me at one point to tell me that we needed petrol, then woke me again to say that we were coming to a petrol station, and to ask whether that particular brand of petrol was OK; or the warring bratties.

On Thursday my daughter (who just lurves driving her 5L monster around the country) was on her way back from NSW, but suffered heat stroke and had to grab a hotel room to recover. 40oC forecast for Tuesday - oh joy

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