I've given in, bastard tax
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koolchris99
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or force the misses to move.
Reggie-g75 said:
PMSL
Get the bus everyday only travel 6 miles but can sometimes take 1.5 hours
usually 1 hour but i would never use my Z for work to many idiots on the road on the route i would use plus i enjoy dirving the Z at the weekend even more 
and if i think it could be a slow journey i do what i did today pop in a pub for a couple before i get the bus then get a seat and have a kip till i have to get off can sometimes backfire if theres a lot of traffic i then have to get off for a pee usually in another pub Ha ha. I like the op's point about the spare cash being used for sweet additions to the zed and being able to have a beer. But, I just don't like other people, and on a train you are stuck wtb them all around. 1st class is a bit better. But still a gamble.
Give me my sweet zed any day, with the ability to embarass tt drivers as said
Give me my sweet zed any day, with the ability to embarass tt drivers as said
wots a train ...??????
mikedav said:
NEVER! Unless I'm drinking.
£32 saving to stand up for 2 hours and have no car seems a cack deal to me....
ksher said:I don't like public transport.
Reggie-g75 said:
Bradders75 said:I can't believe nobody has made the most practical suggestion to save money on this particular trip. Get a new misses that lives close to home!
I agree with all of these!!
I haven't been on a bus since I was about 16. I sometimes get the train into Sheffield when I'm going out on the piss. Anything else, it's Z4 all the way.
Liverpool
Sadly, any train with groups of young lads in are about the same, whether they be football supports, squaddies, stag night attendees, hockey players, rugby players, etc.pvr said:
If I have to be on the train, then I'll try to be in First or the quiet coach.
The choice of the ill informed, uneducated buffoons.bigshurv said:
These are not the answer what we need are Personal Jet Packs, so we can fly anywhere and forget about traffic jams
Seriously Hybrids are not the answer their birth to death cycle is so unenviromentally unfriendly it makes your eyes build but we have been brain washed into thinking they are the answer almost as much as the electric car is but where does it get its power from.....nice fossil fuel burning power stations or equally green nuclear power stations.
IMO the answer lies in hyrogen fuel cells, fill your tank with hydrogen, drive it until it's empty and refill in 2 minutes and the only thing coming out your exhaust.......water.
RichardG said:
Where does the hydrogen come from? It's separated out from water using... you guessed it energy from fossil fuel / nuclear power stations. Hydrogen is less efficient than electricity - since there's an additional conversion process once the energy has left the power station. Unfortunately the car has to use power cells, which are seriously harmful to the environment and use a LOAD of energy to extract the materials and put the cells together. Both hydrogen and electric are as bad as each other right now. However, if you ignore the anti-nuclear tat that's spread around, hydrogen could become viable with a massive investment in nuclear power. Unfortunately everyone thinks nuclear power plants are exothermic (melt downs, won't happen in a modern plant), and spew out masses of nuclear waste (modern plants re-use the waste) and require masses of water (modern plants can use raw untreated sewage as a coolant).
Gremlin500
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Hear, hear, chaps! I echo many of the sentiments on here, does that make us elitist snobs? -I hope so!
No, seriously, there's nothing worse than having to share public transport with the Great Unwashed, is there? On Friday I had the privilege to enjoy a ride on Newcastle's Metro from the airport to my home, (a bit quicker than traffic at 50 mins). Some people are scum, the carraige was filthy and smelly, the seats stained. I blame the horrible public, not the operators.
Still, it meant my partner could leave the Z4 in its cosy bed and enjoy my new company car all week whilst I was away, so at least that saved a bit, although even company car users are taxed heavily these days on benefit in kind for both car and fuel, there's no such thing as a Free Lunch. The UK government is adopting an incremental approach to milking us all dry with the poor motorist first in the firing line. I can't wait to retire and get the hell out of the UK for one.
Hmmmm, any good Public Transport horror stories??
No, seriously, there's nothing worse than having to share public transport with the Great Unwashed, is there? On Friday I had the privilege to enjoy a ride on Newcastle's Metro from the airport to my home, (a bit quicker than traffic at 50 mins). Some people are scum, the carraige was filthy and smelly, the seats stained. I blame the horrible public, not the operators.
Still, it meant my partner could leave the Z4 in its cosy bed and enjoy my new company car all week whilst I was away, so at least that saved a bit, although even company car users are taxed heavily these days on benefit in kind for both car and fuel, there's no such thing as a Free Lunch. The UK government is adopting an incremental approach to milking us all dry with the poor motorist first in the firing line. I can't wait to retire and get the hell out of the UK for one.
Hmmmm, any good Public Transport horror stories??