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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can tell people on this thread have no experience with poverty.

Poor people don't live within walking distance or biking distance of their jobs. They don't live anywhere near subway stations. They can't afford Uber. They're not going to spend three hours a day on the bus when they have families to take care of and long hours to work. They're going to drive no matter what, even if their license gets taken away.

A lot of cities have abandoned traffic cameras and heavy fines on drivers for parking in the wrong place or speeding (DC's traffic fines are absurd, BTW) because those fines, especially when they snowball with late fees, can wreak havoc in low income families' lives. 
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I grew up poor right here in Montgomery county. We could not afford a car so it was buses everywhere!  Not metro rail, or cabs. It was all buses .My parents had state IDs, not drivers licenses and they never borrowed anybody’s car. They never operated a car illegally. Once they could afford a car, then they got their drivers licenses. I remember this because I remember helping them study in English. Contrary to what some believe, being poor isn’t wasn’t a pass to lawlessness.  At least not in the 80s/90s.

But back in the 80s and 90s, laws were actually enforced so maybe that’s why so many people were not willing to take the chance on getting fined, caught, sent to jail.
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