You should all try this

[Adam_P]

https://www.transportdirect.info/

Right, so, the government wants us all, eventually, to use public transport and ditch cars and bikes etc in favour of trains and buses.

The website above lets you see just how effective the public transport system is in the UK

It might be great if you work in and around London, or another major city. But for thse of us elsewhere, try putting yor commute to work in and see just how much time you can save (there's sarcasm there, trust me, I've already tried it)!


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Apparantly it would take 25 minutes by bus/walking.
However it reckons 19 minutes by car for 2.2miles .

Actually takes about 5 mins by car or push bike, or a bit less by motorbike .

[feef]

44 mins by car.. 56 mins by bus...

I don't doubt the 56 mins by bus, but I've seen me do the trip in 20 mins.

in fact on one occasion, at 4am, when our systems went down and I was called out, I've done bed to office desk in 25 mins.

What this site Doesn't demonstrate is the convenience.

I can walk down to the carpark under the building, in the dry. get in my car, or on the bike, and go.. I don't have to wait 30 mins in the rain if I happen to leave at 17:01 instead of 17:00

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there's also the ever-present fundamental flaw in public transport...

It's Public!

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[angryjonny]

I know from experience that my journey is about 5-10 minutes faster by motorbike than by tube. The cost is the same.

However, what this doesn't take into account is the fact that if I ride in I arrive with a big smile on my face but if I get the tube in I'm ready to strangle the first person who talks to me. Even if you *can* save time by taking public transport, it's not just about that.

[gixxersixx]

53 to 57 minutes by bus & tube 23 minutes by car, actually takes 15 mins by bike & thats to central london so that just shows the public transport system in london isnt that good, its got to be at least equivalent and convenient for me to start using it.
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[Feasty]

What a joke... journey into work:

Bus/walk 1hr 8mins, 1 change.
Car 38 mins, in the car it would actually be about an 1hr due to traffic but on the bike - 25mins!

journey home:

Finish 5.30pm but have to wait till 6pm for the bus

Bus/walk 1hr 35mins, 3 changes, get home 7.35pm
Car 37mins, again more like an hour but on bike another 25mins!

So on the bike I get to work in less than half the time than any other way. And on the way home, over an hour earlier every day - ridiculous to suggest I should use public transport!

[Adam_P]

You guys have reasonably decent public transport though.

I put in my former commute to where I used to work, which is literally one village away and only 6 miles up the road, took me 10 mins in the car and that was through security and across an RAF base.

When I put the same journey in for public transport.
It sends me on a 2 and a half hour jaunt to two towns, using two buses and a train (the nearest station being 12 miles from me!) before getting me to the same place.

Oh and even though I told it I wanted/needed to set off at 8:30, it didn't actually start until 9:21...
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[bazza]

Cool. A return trip to work on public transport (bus/train) will consume 4 hrs 28 mins and £11:20 per day, whereas the bike takes 1 hr 20 mins and around £3 per day.

So I should choose to spend 22 hours 20 mins and £56 pounds a week being herded around like cattle on feelthy steenking buses and trains, only to turn up an hour and a half late for work every day?

I really don't think so.
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[dainesefreak]

Nice one.

https://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7940/dailyjourneyfe6.jpg

It takes me between 11-15 minutes on the bike, not that I've got a record I try to beat or anything.

[Dazbo666]

26 minutes by bus
16 minutes by car.
I can actually do the trip in 10-15 minutes by bike, cheaper than either option, and arrive at work with a big grin
The commute has a hell of a lot more to it than saving 10 or 20 minutes
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[drumwrecker]

I'm not defending Transpoert Direct but did you include the time for putting all your gear on, getting bike out of the garage or from under cover, warming it up etc. Although I don't work now it is often quicker by car when all the above is taken into account.
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[TheShaggyDA]

If I were to use my bike, my journey takes 1 hour. This is door to desk, including togging up. The car, assuming no jams on the M1, is 1 hour 15 minutes. Public transport would be 2 hours, 40 minutes. This assumes I make each of the connections, and none of them are late.

This is an extra 3 hours, 20 minutes a day or 16 hours, 40 minutes a week. That's almost half a working week. Or, assuming 6 weeks holiday a year, an extra 106 working days a year.

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[alone]

Who here thinks that site takes into account delays/cancelled public transport?..
I got 1h54minutes by public transport and;
42minutes by car.

I can do it in 30minutes by bike. Longest it took was 40minutes, cus it was pissing it down and everyone decided 40 was a better speed limit.

[Al]

As I work shifts
early starting at 6am - 23 mins car/bike (about right)
1 hour 4 mins walk bus (about right)
But it tells me that I need to get the bus the night before at 22.30

so thats 7.5 hours for me to get the bus and 23 mins on bike/car hmmm

[Annabella]

Hmmm, interesting that that website says that it takes the bus 49 minutes to complete the journey from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton, and a car 57 minutes.

Not sure how it's worked that out as I drive the bus route every day and I am pretty sure that the only place where there could be a difference in speed is a stretch of dual carriageway (with a bus stop half way along it).
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[Dom]

Hmm if I was still doing some on-site stuff at a client it would take me 2 hours 7 minutes compared to 35 minutes on the bike. Nice.

I actually doubt it would be possible at all to bus it as it's out in the sticks and afaik there's only a bus once or twice a day there followed by a very long walk.
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Ha!

Its very accurate with its bus time on mine, 46 minutes.. I took that bus for a year and it was usally about 50 minutes, so not bad, but it didnt take into account that it was literally 15 minutes late every day.

It also says that the journey takes 26 minutes by car.

Well, on the 125 I once did it in 7 minutes, though that was at 4am.. normal commute time is about 15.

What a joke.

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[Squibbs]

Weston Super Mare to Central Bristol


Bus, Walk 0 07:08 08:53 1hour, 45 mins
Bus, Train, Walk 1 07:20 08:42 1hour, 22 mins
Bus, Train, Walk 1 06:51 08:12 1hour, 21 mins
Bus, Walk 0 06:28 07:57 1hour, 29 mins
Car 0 08:07 09:00 53 mins / 19.2miles

I do it on the bike in 45 at the outside

Maybe add another 10 minutes to start her up and 5 mins to lock her down its still a lot quicker.

[stinkwheel]

Current one. Car: 28 minutes 9.5 miles (wrong, takes 15 minutes tops)

Bus: 1 hour 37 minutes.

My last farm job. Car: 17 miles, 42 minutes (about right)
Public transport: "Sorry we are currently unable to obtain public transport journey options using the details you have entered." (absolutely correct, there's none)

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[angryjonny]

Agreed. Tonight was "drive like a cretin" night in West London but I still arrived home in a good mood. That rarely happens if I go by tube, even if I have the "perfect" journey.

[Adam_P]

[PsychoHippy]

It reconds that the fastest public transport route for me is 2 hours 34 mins, for a route journey that takes me 45 mins o the bike

So apart from loosing an area 3 hours of my day (making it a 17 hour working day including traveling), I would have to leave home at 4am to get to work for my 7am start. Funnily enough, there are no buses/trains running in my area at that time.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Yep, pretty mad. I posted about it a few months back and sent them an email suggesting they added bikes, but looks like they haven't bothered yet.

Gives my commute to work as 1:29 by car (an hour is how long it takes), and 2:07 by public transport.

All the best

Keith
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