Parking on campus for pre-semester shit

[darkphoenix]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

[98.40_for_sure]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

Yeah once you factor in petrol, maintenance, insurance and rego... you're looking at about $10,000 a year excluding the cost of the car. Bus is like what $1000 a year? Depends how much you value your time and safety i guess.

[shinny]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

Yeah once you factor in petrol, maintenance, insurance and rego... you're looking at about $10,000 a year excluding the cost of the car. Bus is like what $1000 a year? Depends how much you value your time and safety i guess.

But you'd have to pay many of those regardless of whether you drive to uni or not, since I'm sure you'd be using your car for uses other than uni.

[98.40_for_sure]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

Yeah once you factor in petrol, maintenance, insurance and rego... you're looking at about $10,000 a year excluding the cost of the car. Bus is like what $1000 a year? Depends how much you value your time and safety i guess.

But you'd have to pay many of those regardless of whether you drive to uni or not, since I'm sure you'd be using your car for uses other than uni.

Ohh you mean like if you have a car, but you just don't drive it to uni. I was talking about not having a car/license at all and getting around purely on public transport, in which case you don't pay any of.

[shinny]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

Yeah once you factor in petrol, maintenance, insurance and rego... you're looking at about $10,000 a year excluding the cost of the car. Bus is like what $1000 a year? Depends how much you value your time and safety i guess.

But you'd have to pay many of those regardless of whether you drive to uni or not, since I'm sure you'd be using your car for uses other than uni.

Ohh you mean like if you have a car, but you just don't drive it to uni. I was talking about not having a car/license at all and getting around purely on public transport, in which case you don't pay any of.

Ah right. Well point is; get a car if you can. Makes life SO much better. Especially in uni considering how much free time you have.

[98.40_for_sure]

Too many shit drivers on the road already, the peer passenger restriction just makes it worse. So i say dont get a car

[Streaker]

Sorry this might've been brought up before, but where and how do we get parking permits?

[Fyrefly]

Probably cheaper to bus it? Considering petrol costs and parking permits etc.

Btw why do you have UOM userbar? LOL

Yeah once you factor in petrol, maintenance, insurance and rego... you're looking at about $10,000 a year excluding the cost of the car. Bus is like what $1000 a year? Depends how much you value your time and safety i guess.

$10,000 a year?! LMFAO!!! You sure that doesn't include the cost of the car? =P

My car costs about $5000 a year (petrol, parking, insurance, rego, citylink, maintenance), and I'd be paying most of those bills even if I didn't drive it to uni anyway.

Also, sometimes you should also consider the costs of public transport too... My cost v. benefits:

• I consider insurance, rego and maintenance to be like sunk costs - I pay them whether or not I drive to uni, so they don't influence my decision.
• Fixed cost is the parking permit, variable costs are citylink and petrol.
• So driving my car to uni ends up costing me $28.46 each day I go (based on 3 days a week).
• Public transport is $5.60 a day, but takes an extra 45min travel time compared to driving.
• I earn an average of about $22/hr, so that extra 45min is worth about $16.50 to me.

So I consider the difference between me driving and me using public transport to be $6.36 a day ($28.46 - $16.50 - $5.60). That's a price I'll happily pay to not have to run between platforms (I would be required to catch two buses and two trains in order to get to uni), stress about delays/services not running at all, get smooshed into packed trains, or have to smell armpits for close to 4 hours each day. Also, if I had to allow just over an hour and a half to get to uni (instead of 50mins), I'm pretty sure I'd never rock up to class... most uni students don't have much motivation to go to class when the alternative is more sleep.

[98.40_for_sure]

You must live yonks from Monash then if you gotta take citylink and all that. My choice is quite simple. 10-15 minute drive vs. 90 min public transport (no direct bus line from home to uni, gotta take like a bus + train + bus).

I don't know how you figured $5000 a year... iirc you drive some fancy convertible. Say you fill one tank a week (approx $60), let's take a year as 50 weeks for simplicity, that's $3000 for petrol. Insurance for P platers is through the roof, say $4-5000 ish for that incl. rego. Now let's put aside $1000 for servicing. Take parking permit as 350. $650 reserve for fixing shit in your car in the unlikely event that they break. That's the 10000 May be 1-2k less depending on what car you drive.

If you're driving that far to uni, the petrol costs would be even higher... so i don't see how it can be $5000 a year unless you're uninsured and don't regularly service your car.

Oh, and then there are those like Mao who have the "mod-bug"... spends every penny on making his exhaust fartier, lowering closer to the point of immobility and 'reemz'.

[shinny]

A tank a week? o_o I drive around a tank every two. And that was driving 40 minutes and 20 km each way, every single day (damn med). And you do realise uni only runs for basically half the year right? It's nowhere near 50 weeks. Just put your insurance and stuff on your parents if they allow; far cheaper.

[Duck]

You must live yonks from Monash then if you gotta take citylink and all that. My choice is quite simple. 10-15 minute drive vs. 90 min public transport (no direct bus line from home to uni, gotta take like a bus + train + bus).

I don't know how you figured $5000 a year... iirc you drive some fancy convertible. Say
you fill one tank a week (approx $60), let's take a year as 50 weeks for simplicity, that's $3000 for petrol. Insurance for P platers is through the roof, say $4-5000 ish for that
incl. rego. Now let's put aside $1000 for servicing. Take parking permit as 350. $650
reserve for fixing shit in your car in the unlikely event that they break. That's the 10000
  May be 1-2k less depending on what car you drive.

If you're driving that far to uni, the petrol costs would be even higher... so i don't see
how it can be $5000 a year unless you're uninsured and don't regularly service your car.

Oh, and then there are those like Mao who have the "mod-bug"... spends every penny on making his exhaust fartier, lowering closer to the point of immobility and 'reemz'.

I though I read that you lived in Glen Waverley. There's a bus leaving from Syndal and Glen Waverley train stations that goes directly to monash.

[dcc]

Insurance for P platers is through the roof, say $4-5000 ish for that incl. rego.

what - this is wrong.  My insurance (obviously not comprehensive) is $500/year.  Comprehensive insurance is for suckers who buy cars too expensive for their wealth range or people who crash their cars too often.

[98.40_for_sure]

A tank a week? o_o I drive around a tank every two. And you do realise uni only runs for basically half the year right? It's nowhere near 50 weeks. Just put your insurance and stuff on your parents if they allow; far cheaper.

Do you drive a prius by any chance? Unless you have a brand new spanking car that takes you 700km... my car takes me around 300km before i have to refill, and that is GRANNY driving. I'd be refilling at under 250ish if i was not being conservative.

Most companies still charge 2.5k+ under my parents name, some even want $6000+ and Allianz want $10000 lol. Too many fuckin hoons dying on our roads, leading to lighter pockets for us.

[98.40_for_sure]

Insurance for P platers is through the roof, say $4-5000 ish for that incl. rego.

what - this is wrong.  My insurance (obviously not comprehensive) is $500/year.  Comprehensive insurance is for suckers who buy cars too expensive for their wealth range or people who crash their cars too often.

500 for third party is still a lot...

[shinny]

A tank a week? o_o I drive around a tank every two. And you do realise uni only runs for basically half the year right? It's nowhere near 50 weeks. Just put your insurance and stuff on your parents if they allow; far cheaper.

Do you drive a prius by any chance? Unless you have a brand new spanking car that takes you 700km... my car takes me around 300km before i have to refill, and that is GRANNY driving. I'd be refilling at under 250ish if i was not being conservative.

Most companies still charge 2.5k+ under my parents name, some even want $6000+ and Allianz want $10000 lol. Too many fuckin hoons dying on our roads, leading to lighter pockets for us.

Close, but it's just a Toyota Corolla. Gets me around 550 km on a tank.