spare a thought for low-income folk and their worsening travel-related difficulties, please.
First, they’re having to deal with the current, momentary (hopefully!) concern and risk of becoming Covid-19 victims as they board typically cramped and dirty trains or buses, where social distancing is nightmarish. Next, they have to swallow the fact that, according to currently active non-departmental UK government advisers, these poor souls usually spend 25 per cent of their salaries travelling to and from work. think of the soul-destroying sensation of earning, say, £300 a week, but having to give up £75 just getting to the workplace and back every day.

‘Why build HS2 for £403m per mile when a road costs £10m per mile?’

People earning that kind of money – £15-16,000 a year, or less – for going to the restaurant, factory, office, shop or wherever daily, need and should have to be subsidised by way of, at least, a complimentary bus or train pass from home-workplace-home. Or, even a contribution from the state towards the cost of their workhorse cars!
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It’s bonkers that high-earning politicians can qualify for complimentary travel to and from their places of work (the house of Commons, for example), yet low-earning salt-of-the-earth employees cannot.       
The UK government is this month being formally alerted by its own experts that carry is the vital lynchpin through which opportunities in education and employment are realised, but that’s just half the story. Wheels – preferably those attached to motorcars operating 24/7 – give men, women and kids improved social lives, easier-to-manage family lives, and a world of far greater freedom and liberty.