This week I started cycling to the station and getting the train to work instead of driving!

I work in Bradford and live in Manchester so commuting is an everyday part of life. When I started working in Bradford, I worked out it was cheaper to travel via car than by train, however I forgot to factor in the cost of servicing and depreciation to my car! So now I pay around about the same price for the train (thanks to inflation of fuel prices), and my car is having a rest in the garage.

Train prices in my opinion are ridiculously high giving people very little incentive to switch from less carbon efficient forms of travel such as driving. If one other person shared the cost of commuting to Bradford by car, the cost would be utterly incomparable to the cost of both traveling by train. Furthermore I think it is disgusting that Alasdair Darling is considering increasing the duty on fuel which will undoubtedly only serve as a tax on low income households.