Re: The cost of learning to drive


"Doug" <jagmad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 7 Jan, 11:38, Huge <H...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-01-07, NM <never.ope...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

nightjar <cpb@ wrote:

You will, I am sure, be pleased to know I am giving up flying, except
for
very long distance trips. The sheer hassle of going through an airport
these
days makes it no longer an enjoyable experience. I'll be driving to
destinations in Western Europe instead.

Why not take the train? Its quicker and you don't have to worry about
maintenance, driver fatigue, parking problems, fines and extra danger?

Once you add on getting to and from the railways stations, it is not
noticeably quicker. I was seriously unimpressed when I used Eurostar to go
to Paris. I really don't like sharing my space with hordes of noisy children
running up and down and people shouting into mobile phones. I also had to
pack everything into a suitcase that was of a size that could easily be
manhandled at several points of the journey, given that I also have to carry
my partner's suitcase, although she does at least pack light. I then had to
take a taxi to my final destination, as, with the baggage, it was
impracticle to reach the hotel on foot or by public transport.

In a car, I put everything in the boot - more than I could take by train or
plane - and forget about it until I reach my destination. Maintenance is
under my control, unlike the trains. Driver fatigue is only a problem if you
try to drive too far without rests, which I don't. Parking comes with the
hotel, often in a secure underground facility. Fines are easily avoided by
driving legally - I can programme the maximum speed my car can do to assist
with that and use cruise control on long runs. What extra danger? In the
past 50 years I have had one accident, in which the other driver was
reported for dangerous driving. Nobody was injured and I only suffered some
easily repaired bent metalwork.

If you read my original post, rather than this truncated excerpt, you would
also see that driving is also getting cheaper in real terms - down 10% since
1977, while buses and trains are getting dearer - up 52% and 55% since 1977.
If you prefer more recent figures, since 1997, cars -10%, buses +13% trains
+6%..

Me also, for the same reasons,

Ditto. I really CBA these days. And if it wasn't for the fact that my
mother
lives there, I'd never go to the USA ever again, either. 9 hours in a
flying
baked bean tin to be treated like a criminal is not my idea of a good
time.

I think you can all that "Giving in to terrorism" on the part of the
authorities. We are all made to suffer attacks on our civil liberties
and human rights because of a relatively small threat bolstered by
paranoia and a warmongering foreign policy.

It is giving in to the sort of ill-informed mass hysteria that you
specialise in. The precautions are there to bolster public confidence in
flying, not because trying to detect previous forms of attack has more than
a very outside chance of stopping the next attack.

Colin Bignell



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