adding in maintenance and depreciation is only really relevant if you buy a car just for commuting. Assuming you are going to have a car anyway, it makes sense to make use of it,especially as most cars are never fully depreciated, most are scrapped with plenty of useful miles left in them (if they were looked after properly in the first place)
also, in the case of someone needing to use the car to get to the railhead (12 miles in my case) mainteance and depreciation would have to added to the train fare. Add to this onward travel from the destination to the workplace.
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