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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 36,685
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 36,685
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Anyone suggesting she sells the car has clearly not tried public transport at any time recently.
We fill up £25 in the car and it lasts us a full two weeks, easily, and that's with longer (50+ mile) trips occasionally.
Before we had the car, one return trip to town (ONE return trip) on the bus cost £13. It's 8 miles to town, not walkable. Oh can I also point out that £13 is for two adults and one child, as one of ours is under 5 and doesn't pay yet. For this one adult and 8 children to take the bus to town where I am, ONCE, would cost them £21.50.
In other words, the public transport service being the absolute shambles it is at the moment, for a family (and actually ANY time you have more than one person in a car, so even just for couples) that doesn't have everything they need within walking distance of their home, it is cheaper to run a car than to not run one.
It costs us approx. £130 a month to run the car, all in. That includes insirance, tax, etc. Before we had the car our travel expenses were pushing close to £250 a month. It's insane. And again - that's for two adults and one child.
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