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by best_one_there 1118 days ago
Approximately 50% of London households have at least one car.

You need to invent a new class to put them (and me) in, I guess.

Flatshare people mostly don't, that's basically it. The council estates are full of cars. If you were here it would be obvious.

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> If you were here it would be obvious

"Here?" I don't know what you think you're saying; but you should not assume that you know me; who or where I am. Yeah there are lots of cars in London; there are even more people.

I see also you're throwing out random numbers (50% according to who? ) that even if true, don't directly relate to or contradict what I said - "households" are not "people", "people" are not the same stat as "poor people", car owners are not evenly distributed, and IDK why "Flatshare people" are something subhuman that you scorn and exclude from counts.

TfL have official information on this, it's not a random number.

I'm not doing your research for you. The poor and middle class do drive in London. If you think otherwise you're simply mistaken, even in a back of the envelope sense. There are over 2 million cars in London, I don't know who you think owns them if not ordinary people.

> The poor and middle class do drive in London.

I didn't say that "it doesn't happen" just that it's not prevalent.

> There are over 2 million cars in London

Did you notice that the number of people in London is a multiple of that? "ordinary people" is broad, do you think that it varies within that, and varies in sync with disposable income, or is evenly distributed?

From Your own source at https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-a... :

> "Londoners are more likely to own a car if they live in outer London, live in an area with poor access to public transport, have a higher income, have a child in the house, and are of Western European nationality."

have a higher income , household car access rises as income increases, live out in the suburbs.