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I may need to consider this, season ticket is £3.6K, any tips for reducing costs...get the bus a few days per week, buy 10-packs of train tickets, ride it 1-2 times a week?
Probably not worth it I am guessing!
You moving, or new branch?
Buy my flat - it is 5 mins walk from Haymarket station and currently for sale....
The bus is horrific. I did it 4 days a week up until about a year ago. Yes, it's a lot cheaper than the train but it's unbelievably slow, cramped and uncomfortable. The drivers also all seem to have to pass some sort of test to prove they drive like psychopaths. On the plus side, they are often so disinterested that they don't bother to punch your 10 journey ticket so it usually lasted me more like 12-14 journeys.
My commute was easily 2 hours each way, and that's without much walking at either end. I lasted almost 2 years before I got a (worse) job back in Edinburgh.
hels, I'm not leaving Portobello 😛
No new branch SOM.
*bump* for more tales of misery?
**** me!
Buy a car, much as it pains me to say it. Find a car pool to share the cost and you'll be even better off. This is why I drive to South Gyle from Largs and get the train into town for OU tutorials, the train is absolutely extortionate and I'm cheaper driving.
Bus is horrific, remember doing that a few times when my GF (now wife) lived in Edinburgh and I was in Glasgow. 0700 bus is zombie central, not pretty, humanity at its very worst...
Al, buy a moped, batter along forth and clyde towpath.
Jobs a good un...