Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC

• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Making it harder for poorer working people to get to work. This would be yet another cost that people have to face. Those that can’t afford to re-take it but need their car to get to work would end up criminalised.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Making it harder for poorer working people to get to work.

    Poor people are less likely to drive because they can’t afford to get a car. I never learnt because I didn’t have £1000s to get insured, didn’t even bother looking at the other costs involved because the numbers were so far beyond anything I could even consider.

    Was only in my late 20s that I even replaced the bike from my teens, by the time I replaced it most of the gears didn’t work anymore. Sure, some poor people do drive, but far more rich people do. Just looking at stats for household car ownership by area clearly shows it, I live in a large town and the rich side of town is >95% vehicle ownership and around 20% have 3 or more. My street is 27% of households have no vehicles, the most deprived areas of town are majority of households don’t own a vehicle.

    I repeated this with every town I have ever lived in and while the numbers vary the same trends apply every time.

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