• Walk-on train fares could be slashed in the UK
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I pay £500-600 a year for my student card to get to collage (1 1/2 hours away)
[quote]Ministers are also ready to end an anomaly under which one-way tickets cost as much as returns.[/quote] this shit right here pisses me off when I need to spend the night somewhere because i need to spend twice as much for each journey because they can't get prices right [editline]20th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=codenamecueball;41895432]next up, nationalisation[/QUOTE] completely missed the chance to say [I]next stop[/I] nationalisation
[QUOTE=Kirrimir;41901026]Trains are expensive, Buses are expensive, petrol/diesel is expensive. Traveling in the UK is expensive.[/QUOTE] trains and buses are pretty cheap if you get year passes here in n.ireland
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;41902180]Buses are cheapest, i can get a return to bristol from london for £9 if i book the day before. Meanwhile the price for the train into london to get that bus is twice as much despite only being 15 miles compared to 120 to bristol.[/QUOTE] that be true. temple meads has been royally shit recently with trains being on time and with their cancellations. Had one cancellation yesterday and one delay/cancellation/fuckup today. Nightmare.
without my rail card it would cost me almost £200 to get from Cornwall to the north of the country to see my boyfriend, rail prices are fucking ridiculous.
I'm moving from a small town in Herefordshire to Middlesbrough this year for university, the train fair is about £70 getting that cheaper would be quite handy.
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