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In article <1993Jan20.133858@cs.bham.ac.uk> roj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robert O Jackson) writes:
>Its a shame that the cost of catching the bus from point A (or rather the
>nearest bus stop) to point B (or some point near it) costs as much as if
>not more than driving from point A to point B.

While the marginal cost of driving is certainly lower, the actual cost
of driving is usually a good deal higher than catching the bus. I could
buy a year's bus-pass with just my insurance premiums and still have
enough left over for a newspaper to read on the bus every day; to say
nothing about depreciation. The money it takes to run a car buys a lot
of public transport.

Your mileage will vary; the relative costs will depend on your travel
pattern, access to buses, car parking fees, particular bus-pass schemes,
number of passengers, costing in your time, exposure to car thieves etc
etc. 

	Tim.
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Tim Oldham, BT Group Computing Services.       tjo@its.bt.co.uk
``Sounds good to me''