'Capacity crisis looms for Britain's railways'

[Mich the Tester]

So, if I went to London every day buying 1st class anytime tickets I'd have to spend £5k on travel per month, or £60k per year.

You don't have a pad in town?

Oh dear. Poor man.

[Mich the Tester]

What's the answer?

Buy a first class ticket and get some peace.

[Doggy Styles]

Buy a first class ticket and get some peace.

My railway doesn't do first class travel.

[Mich the Tester]

My railway doesn't do first class travel.

is it run by AtW?

[AtW]

is it run by AtW?

I like trains.

[minestrone]

It is so refreshing to see a foreigner have a different attitude to our own outlook. Normally when someone here cannot afford something people tend to get embarrassed yet you are quite happy to let people know how poor you are.

[AtW]

Normally when someone here cannot afford something

Who can afford £240 per day train ticket to travel 120 miles one way? Only people who fall into one of the following categories:

1) they waste someone elses money (ie taxpayers)
2) they did not earn their money in the first place

I traveled in 1st class in trains only once - it so happened price was the same as standard rip off, so I decided to give it a go. Ok, it was nice but nothing special - would take for price of standard ticket, but certainly won't buy their full price offer.

And I'd better not see any employees of my firm do that at firm's expense - they can pay their own money if they like it that much.

[minestrone]

You can take the man out of the bedsit but you can't take the bedsit out of the man.

[Scary]

Sit at the bar and spend the difference between 1st and 2nd on tins of wifebeater.

[Board Game Geek]

Who can afford £240 per day train ticket to travel 120 miles one way? Only people who fall into one of the following categories:

1) they waste someone elses money (ie taxpayers)
2) they did not earn their money in the first place

I traveled in 1st class in trains only once - it so happened price was the same as standard rip off, so I decided to give it a go. Ok, it was nice but nothing special - would take for price of standard ticket, but certainly won't buy their full price offer.

And I'd better not see any employees of my firm do that at firm's expense - they can pay their own money if they like it that much.

I think AtW is getting an unnecessary hard time over making sensible business choices in this economic climate.

To be honest, even if we were not in this economic climate, he's still making sensible cash-flow choices.

How can you berate him that ?

After all, a good many of us lay in to EDS or Accidenture for gourging the clients, and squirting money down the drain on insane travel expenses.

AtW, don't get baited by the naysayers. You're nurturing a new business and looking after the pennies wisely. If that increases the cash flow and means the business stays afloat, and keeps folks in jobs, then that's a good thing.