• tal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t care if the train takes 8 or 10 hours to go from one end of the country to the other what I care about is the fact that you are raped by the 200 plus charge.

    goes to look

    It looks like a rail ticket a week from now (October 10) is about £220 from London to Inverness. A bus ticket (megabus) can be had for £27. On the other hand, rail is about 8 hours and the bus 13 hours.

    So if you would like to optimize for price, I suppose that the bus probably is a lot more appealing, though the trip will take longer.

    EDIT: Just to check what you could theoretically get the bus time down to, Google Maps says that it’s about 10 hours to go from London to Inverness in a car. So that’s about the floor on what a bus service could do (no changes, no intermediate stops), short of introducing new or faster highways.

    EDIT2: For completeness, air (easyJet) appears to be available for that route for £51 and take 1 hour and 40 minutes. More expensive than the bus, but also much less so than rail, and considerably faster than either.

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        1 year ago

        Heh, I checked the air price and updated my comment after you commented but before I read your comment, but yeah, good point.

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          Like, yeah, if you’re someone super environmentally conscious then you may be begrudged to fly, and while I understand the big picture is more complicated than what I’m about to say, but that flight, train or coach was going to depart with or without you regardless, so I’m going to be picking the best combination of easiest, fastest and cheapest choice.