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Cost to commute to work increases
A commute the length of a career is likely to set back a worker an average of £50,000, according to a recent survey. For somebody in London who starts work at 18 and finished at 65, the cost of a commute could reach as high as £66,000, the recent poll found.
Commuters overall will spend around 10,634 hours travelling to their place of work and back in their lifetime, which is equal to 443 days. This survey found that the cost and length of a commute was at it's highest in London, with people travelling in or to the capital spending over 13,000 hours commuting in their lifetime.
The time spent commuting to and from London on average is 1 hour 14 minutes, with travel per month costing £118 on average. In comparison the commute in Liverpool is just 42 minutes and costs £72 on average per month, with Liverpudlian's notching up 7,532 hours of travel throughout their lifetime. These expenses will include public transport costs, parking costs and possibly tunnel fares.
Though commuters in Glasgow travel for 52 minutes, which is longer than those in Liverpool, Glaswegians actually have the cheapest commute, at £63 each month on average, or £35,500 in their lifetime.
Of all of the commuters that were surveyed, 20% of them said that they did that due to it being too expensive to rent or buy closer to their place of work. Whilst 51% of people in London said that the cost of travel was too expensive, the happiest commuters seemed to be in Birmingham with only 25% of them having a problem with the expense.
Traffic jams and the cost of travelling came at the top of the list of the most annoying things about the daily commute, with dangerous or bad driving and delays coming next. However, jams are only expected to grow as sales of new and used cars continue to increase. New models with reduced running costs such as the Ford Fiesta and the Vauxhall Corsa have enticed more people to invest in a new vehicle.
Other annoyances people stated were how long the journey took, overcrowding on trains, fellow travellers playing music and commuters taking up too much of the seat room.