So cheap is a car in comparison with the train
Posted on 22-06-2015 at 23:01 by MauritsH – 88 Comments”
The public TRANSPORT has recently been a serious blow has become more expensive, which a moderate alternative to the car is completely irrelevant.
As Metro reports that a family consisting of two adults and three children older than 12 years more than € 13.500(!) may aftikken for an annual subscription which is free in all the shitty forms of public TRANSPORT can be travelled. Last year, the price for the same package privileges to € 6.000. Also a lot of money, but is more than half less than now. On the plus-side: the family members are now allowed before 9am of their abo use.
The acclaimed NS throws all the responsibility in a graceful arc over the fence and claims that other carriers a bigger piece of the cake wanted, which they couldn’t otherwise then the price raise.
Fine for them, but we on the editorial board of the zakjapanner again brought out to be just a automotive alternative under the microscope.
Train vs car: a practical example*
Suppose a family consisting of five persons for a number Hyundai i10’s private would lease at $ 149 per month, we arrive at an annual amount of € 8.940. There remains roughly another 4,500 euros on petrol, which on the basis of an average consumption of 1:16 at a price per litre of € 1.60 about 45.000 km can be driven. Per car, so about 9,000 miles. Eat that, train!
Especially for the utrecht residents among you: the environment is very likely to be better off if we massively would switch to the public TRANSPORT, but buses don’t drive on air and power for trams, metros and trains need somewhere to be excited. Long story short: the car is simply superior, but we knew that already. Or we need to massively go cycling, then both the polar bear as your wallet happy.
*The chance that all five of the family members can and are allowed to drive a car, of course, is not so large, but the comparison should be purely for the price difference, to illustrate. The consumption and price are estimates.