David Metz of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies said car buyers saw the cost of travelling in their new vehicle as minimal compared to the cost of public transport


"The other feature of car ownership - and nationally the figure is 75 per cent of households are car-owning one or more cars - is that you've committed to pay the purchase costs, the insurance, the servicing, the vehicle excise duty. So the running costs for fuel, mainly, are relatively modest, compared with paying the total cost of a trip on public transport.

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