[varispeed]

I used to commute out of London. It was anything but nice and quiet. I actually had to buy a car, because using train was not viable (expensive, always late and crowded or trains cancelled, often impossible to board). After coming late nth time, manager said either improve this or we will be looking at letting you go. Getting a car was the best thing I've done.

Our country really need to focus on improving the public transport as at its current state is not fit for purpose.

[fennecbutt]

Yeah it's cheaper to drive here rather than take a train which is just sad. Hell, it's always cheaper to fly to say Scotland, etc than take a train.

It's bc the UK gov doesn't care in the slightest for rail anymore, which is weird bc it's the foundation of public transport in UK.

During pandemic local branches of foreign airlines got bailed out, but any rail company? Nah, nothing for them.

[tharmas]

That is so sad. Here in North America (with the odd exception) we don't even have a choice. Its the car only. The only good thing about a car is autonomy: you leave when you want to leave, and you have control of the environment => no noisy cell phone chats and you can choose whatever music you want to listen to or not.

[Symbiote]

Many commuters in London also leave when they want to leave, or close to it. Metro trains run every 2-10 minutes on most of the network (I'm including the ends of the lines there), urban/suburban/regional trains around every 10-20 minutes.

Personally, if the service is at least every 10 minutes I won't check the time when I leave. If it's 20 or more I will, and in-between probably depends on the weather and if the station is indoors or not.