31/08/2026
'Is a motorbike cheaper than the Tube?' is a question with no honest one-word answer, so we did the sums instead.
A week of Tube travel is capped between £44.70 and £81.60 depending on your zones. Petrol was 161.63p a litre in the week commencing 24 August. Vehicle tax on a motorcycle runs from £27 to £125 a year, against £200 for a standard car registered on or after 1 April 2017.
We have been straight about what we cannot tell you too, including insurance and parking, and we promise nobody a saving.
Read it here: https://universalmct.co.uk/london-commuting-cost-index-2026/