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How on earth is a car a good option for a low income family?
Purchase cost ... MOT every year, VED, repairs, fuel, insurance. It's like people just forget about all the money they spend when it comes to cars. Whereas public transport you just pay per use - no startup costs at all.
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But once you have a car the incremental cost is pretty low, often lower than public transport (particularly if more than one person is travelling).
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Cars used to be cheap. Really cheap to run, anyway, buy - not so much but most folks could get one. Think old school ford fiesta. You can imagine a sweet spot where stuff is cheap enough, reliable and roads are modern but quiet compared to now. Maybe late 70s until 1990. A Fiesta would shit on public transport for literally any journey at that point in time. And still be cheaper. Unless it was mid winter and the bastard thing wouldn’t start. Even if it didn’t the railway workers would be on strike anyway.
That is a lot of folks’ frame of reference, and they blame its loss on globalisation and the environment movement.
aggi
Howard
Sounds like a bot or a troll with the overlong phrasing, but I think it's a real person who lives locally. I get that it's not always convenient to take public transport but I find it difficult to get my head around that people genuinely believe what we have is 'abysmal'.