Max Dodge
So trains are a mbuttively utilised transport form in America today? Yeah right!
Built like a Mercedes 3650You are right to question my "claim". Apparently it's only 61 cars per employee per year. This may be true, but not entirely...
Even with our fuel costs in the UK today and with a mbuttively subsidised railway network it would cost only four people £7.50 each to travel the 220 miles to London. It would cost £55 each by train. Parking in London would cost £30 per day while it would cost £10 at the train station but I would need to travel a 80 mile round trip by car to reach the station and come home on top. Train 55*4=220 plus two days parking at 10 = 20 is a total of £240 plus getting to and from the station. Car 30 and 60 parking = 90 total. That is a £150 saving for four people by car. I do not cost the depreciation and other costs for the car because it is needed to get to the station anyhow. Three pbuttengers can relax and do the paperwork while in the car and there are no drunken louts or other distractions to contend with.
Yeah right. If you miss out most of the costs that I have included yes. If you happen to live and your destination is within walking distance of the station as well, yes. Otherwise only if you travel alone and in your dreams. In my example the car is only marginally more expensive than train if it carries only one person on the journey.
Built like a Mercedes 3648False. They do here in the states. Not that cars ever receive government funding in the form of roads, signalling, road maintenance, rest areas...
Well you could say that most journies and methods of work could be modified to become more efficient. More home working for instance. It does not improve the maths for when you have to travel though. Since your fuel is so much cheaper than ours I think the math works out even more favourably for the car where you are.
Huw
