If you regularly commute by train it may be that you have difficulty reducing your travel costs, though there are a number of ways that we can reduce this expensive part of our living costs such as:
- Car sharing – it’s worth searching either online or by an advert in the local paper to see if there is someone doing the same journey as you and who could share costs.-If you are working in a city or on a business park site where there are lots of employees its worth looking around. Perhaps you could shorten your rail journey and have someone pick you up at a point nearer your workplace, or halve your fuel costs by sharing your car.
- Get a more fuel-efficient car- you can seriously reduce your travel costs by looking to change your car for one that doesn’t guzzle quite so much fuel – and if it is also more eco-friendly save on road tax too! It may just be the time for considering whether commuting in the 4X4 is really what you want to dribble your money away on.
- Walk more- not just for being healthy (it will do you good too) but it can save a great deal of money when you tot up all the times you got the car out to travel to the local shops for a paper or such when it would have taken only a few minutes to walk there and back .Folks spend money on going to the gym when they could spend their energy with a brisk walk to the shops and save money too.