• HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Yes it does. So lets have a look. Let’s say I want to take my family of four down to Devon to see my folks this weekend. On trainline, the cheapest return fair is £239, at not very convenient times. Better times brings the price to £362.

    Add in the price if tube and bus at either end and you are looking at about £400 (a bit over $500) to get down there for the weekend. It’s expensive? Yes it is - and partly because of the limited capacity on rail.

    Now that could absolutely could be improved with additional rail infrastructure - but not by this weekend.

    Of course, if I was travelling by myself - that’s about £66 return and I have done that in the past rather than driving