Ok, lets have a look at replicating my day using public transport.
To make it fairer I'll omit giving my girlfriend a lift to work, and stopping to have lunch next to a field because it was sunny.
So- meeting is at 1pm, lets work out how to get there:
07.25 I walk to the bus stop at Friern Road, get on the 63.
At Elephant I get on the Bakerloo line and take that to Paddington.
I then grab a coffee and jump on the train, arriving in Cardiff with one change at Bristol Temple Meads.
It's 11.43 so I can grab some lunch and stroll to the Industrial estate where the client has their office.
Meeting over- it's twenty past two, next train is 14.55, which if I grab a taxi I can make.
This gets me back into Paddington at 17.06 where I retrace my earlier route to East Dulwich.
I've spent £7.20 on a travelcard, £183 on my train ticket, and £9 on the cab from the clients office to Cardiff Central Station.
I left the house at just past seven and got back at half six, for a total cost of £199.20.
In comparison I actually got in the car at twenty past eight, gave my girlfriend a lift to work, and got home at half five, having spent £50.
In my view driving won that match.
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Ok, lets have a look at replicating my day using public transport.
To make it fairer I'll omit giving my girlfriend a lift to work, and stopping to have lunch next to a field because it was sunny.
So- meeting is at 1pm, lets work out how to get there:
07.25 I walk to the bus stop at Friern Road, get on the 63.
At Elephant I get on the Bakerloo line and take that to Paddington.
I then grab a coffee and jump on the train, arriving in Cardiff with one change at Bristol Temple Meads.
It's 11.43 so I can grab some lunch and stroll to the Industrial estate where the client has their office.
Meeting over- it's twenty past two, next train is 14.55, which if I grab a taxi I can make.
This gets me back into Paddington at 17.06 where I retrace my earlier route to East Dulwich.
I've spent £7.20 on a travelcard, £183 on my train ticket, and £9 on the cab from the clients office to Cardiff Central Station.
I left the house at just past seven and got back at half six, for a total cost of £199.20.
In comparison I actually got in the car at twenty past eight, gave my girlfriend a lift to work, and got home at half five, having spent £50.
In my view driving won that match.