Expensive Rail

OMG I am on a role today on my recent visit to the capital I had to fork out for Tube fairs and above ground rail tickets. I have to say I thought things were expensive in Birmingham however.

One stop London Bridge to Waterloo cost me  £2.20 one way and less than 3 minutes on a train. I found out the following morning I could walk it in 10 minutes. The Sat Nav and Mobile came into its own that morning.

The underground from London Bridge to Euston cost me £4.00 a 10 min journey.

I thought we had it rough in the Midlands but £20.80 for a weekly pass all zones west midlands seems pretty reasonable  compared to the above.

London just appears to be a different Land to the rest of us and I really don’t understand why it is so expensive.

Why is that? we are the same country aren't we? No flipping wonder they all get waiting allowance. No wonder people are moving out to the Midlands only to travel in to the capital. 


It seems to me the Capital is out pricing itself becoming unaffordable to normal folk, who have just discovered they can live 1hour 7 mins by train in the Warwickshire Countryside. No flipping wonder we need more houses in Warwickshire with our great rail links great motorway infrastructure. 


If London (City Centre) isn't careful it will become a Ghost town except for the tourists. 


Eventually the tourists will stop because the Londoners who make London ,London aren't there, they will be here or Manchester instead because it is cheaper to live and travel from the Midlands or North West than to live and travel in to the Capital from the Capital. Now HS2 starts to make sense.


I have thought about it my self if my place of work paid me an extra £xyz k I would travel to London to work almost without hesitation