It's a lot cheaper, and quicker, for me to fly to a city at the other end of the UK than take the train.
It's (significantly) cheaper for me to drive to London than get a train there. Economy of scale means this REALLY shouldn't be the case, but the privately run trains here are a LOT more expensive than the publicly run ones on the continent. I wonder why that might be...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
