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Originally Posted by pgarner  depends.
i used to go vist a mate who was 380 mile away. with me and the wife it used to cost around £90 in petrol there and back. an open return ticket purchased on the same day would have been £136. so £270 for the pair of us against £90 doesnt take much convincing. however she used to quite often take the train when coming up here as she knew well in advance the tickets were cheap - £60 or so |
When you go to the pub, do you log onto the internet, go onto some complany and book a time slot at the pub so you get your pints at 60% cost? No.
So why should people have to do that to travel somewhere. That is one of the things I am most against with the rail companies. The fact that the prices can change so much when booking in advance. They should be the same price accross the board.
I can handle the :
delayes
noise of the train
smell of pee on the seats
some smelly homeless person sitting next to you
standing up for 4 hours at a time becaues of not enough coaches on
some kid screeming and mother/father doing nothing
the drinks tray bashing my shaulder ever time it goes past
but come on! when I find out someone paid £20 to go to glasgow, and I paid £68, that is just too much for me. Never used a train since. (2009)
Distance home > university > home 
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