SPARE a thought for low-income folk and their worsening travel-related difficulties, please. First, they’re having to deal with the current, temporary (hopefully!) fear and risk of becoming Covid-19 victims as they board often 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 typically spend 25 per cent of their salaries travelling to and from work. Imagine 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.
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 deserve to be…
