You can't handle my complete attention.

My commute is about 125 miles a week, and my Windstar has terrible gas mileage.

All the more incentive to get my 50+ mpg vehicle on the road.

20 miles each way, reverse commute from Falls Church to Chantilly, driving a 40 MPG car.

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_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

Admittedly the car has probably depreciated almost as much as it's going to, but even without that, there's insurance, servicing etc.

Monthly, I'd break it down to:
Fuel: £90
Parking: £95
Insurance, servicing, shit like that: £100

This is all a good argument for cycling in more. But even the maddest people wouldn't consider your distance cyclable.

Is there any way you could do it my Brompton*/Train?

*Other folding cycles are available.

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My weekly commute is approximately
140 miles Monday
40 miles Tue, Wed, Thur
140 miles Friday
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400 miles total

At least I get 45p a mile expenses, but as (like you?) I'm a contractor and own the company I work for its offset against my gross income. Its annoying that petrol has gone up like a rocket and these rates haven't changed much in donkeys years.

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Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

$1.50 each way.

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Cicero, The Republic

2x1mi per day, 5-6 days a week will be 5-6mi. I'm burning about a pair of Doc Martens (~$100) per year and a pair tires for the bike about every two years (~$200/2yr)...

So I suppose that makes my commute about $4-5 per week.
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If I just drive from home to the office it's 6 miles one way, but I rarely do that what with the gym, rehearsals, grocery shopping, etc.  Being very conservative I'd say I drive 100 miles a week for my commuting, which works out to about 4 gallons of gas a week, and therefore $16/week.  I'm probably on the very low end for your average working Houstonian, but with no kids and no plans for kids, I didn't feel compelled to flee to the suburbs in order to have access to better schools.

And we carpool. I fill up my 10 gallon tank a bit more often than once a month, for 35 or 40 dollars.

I now know what the noise that is usually spelled "lolwhut" sounds like. --Kellnerin

It's so not bad, I don't pay attention to it. It's 16 to 20 miles a day depending on the route I use, apparently. My TDI averages 38mpg (I have a heavy foot; it's been more like 40mpg this week), and my commute it the bulk of my driving.

One of the guys here at work lives in a little town 40 miles away, via one of the worst highways we have for traffic. If he wants to avoid the heaviest traffic, he takes an extra 12 miles. So, 104 miles a day.  His transportation of choice? A 2003 Ford F-350 King Ranch Super Duty pickup. Gets about 11mpg. He and I are two of the five diesels at work.

Actually, our parking lot here reflects our user base pretty well: one Volt, one Leaf, a raft of Priuses, and a selection of midlife crises with a smattering of lift-kitted giant-wheeled overblown monster trucks. Oh, and one ex-military Mercedes.

So about $83/week including the jaunt to the gym after work twice a week.  $64/week ignoring the gym.

That's supposed to cover wear and tear, maintenance, insurance, etc., so fuel is less than a third of that.

But I ride the train to work, so my driving commute is 2 miles each way to the train station then an hour on the train.

The train pass is $190/month, $125 of which is paid pre-tax.

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Ah, sociopathy. How warm, how comforting, thy sweet embrace. - MNS

Train is $10/day.  Driving is 1.25 gallons/day* (say around $6 right now) + $4 bridge toll.  These days I mostly drive as it is faster.

I drive a Prius and average just over 45 mpg.  It's a 55 mile round trip, or thereabouts.

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I fill 2x a month (maybe every 10+ days) for running LO around and such.

When I was commuting 25mins each way, I think it was around every 5 days or so, but the Beemer does better longer distances.
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is like $86 or something. so 21.50, but it covers 90% of my other travel, too. and it's pre-tax.

6 miles roundtrip, 30 miles a week. This is umm, much shorter than my historical norm.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman

My T-pass (includes subways and buses, unlimited rides) is around $60/month,  that's pretax dollars. I fill up my car about every 2 months or so on average, at a cost of about $40. I almost never drive my car to work, though - I just use it for groceries or on the occasional trip to the suburbs. So I guess my commute works out to about $15/week, give or take, since I also use my T pass to go other places besides work.
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The amount of suck that you can put up with can be mind-boggling, but it only really hits you when it then ceases to suck. -- Kellnerin

At current prices, would be about $30/week.  That includes all family activities since my car is the primary transport, and the wife will steal it if I leave it sitting in the driveway.

I have a fairly cheap work ticket that'll allow me (plus another adult if travelling after 7pm or on week-ends) on any train, tram or bus within the greater Cologne/Bonn area.
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My round trip daily commute is 124 miles.  I get $20 USD at a pop four or five times a week.  Time spent in car is 150 to 180 minutes per day depending on traffic and my attitude.




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