Transportation cost to go to work
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Transportation cost to go to work
| Fri, 02-18-2005 - 12:41am |
How much does it cost for you to go to work and park and then go back home every day? This is on my mind lately because of the possibility of gasoline going up in price again soon and my considerations of possible locations for my new job.
Right now my answer is $3.00 a day.
Depending on possible new job options, it may be $10.00 a day, and I'm really not liking that. $50.00 a week to go to work?? Yikes....part of my consideration of new locations.
How much do you pay? When considering your monthly budget, how do you factor it in? What happens if you run out of "cash" to go to work....do you need a "loan" of some type to continue to get to work? Anyone get a free ride to work?
Littlesbigs

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We have one car. I use it to drive to work while my dh takes public transit.
I have free parking at work so that's a plus.
$65/mth - transit pass
$35/wk - gasoline
$52/mth - insurance
If I were to travel to work via bus it'd take me 3 buses 1 1/2 hrs. later to get there. By car it takes less than 15 minutes!!!
I regret to say that since we're moving further into the suburbs with our new home we'll have to buy dh a car to commute with; we plan to buy a decent used one in cash after the summer.
It irks me to do that so we'll try it with one car until we can't take it anymore :)
Kassandra
"It is said that life has its peaks and valleys. The challenge is to accept them equally and experience them
I live in CA and our public transportation sucks! I couldn't imagine being a one car family.
We spend $600 a month total on 2 carpayments (one will be paid off in a year)
$150 a month for car insurance
$150 a month on gas.
We do carpool together for work (well for the next 2 weeks we will) the drive is 53 miles each way 126 round trip!
Nicola
I pay $3.50 a day to ride public transportation in the city of Chicago. My employer also has a transit program, which means that they take the cost of my transit out of my paycheck and then put it back in the following pay, and I don't pay taxes on that money.
Cheryl
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