Public transport is one of the only ways teenagers (among many other vulnerable groups) can get some independence in a very car-centric society. You’d be fighting an uphill battle trying convince people to exclude kids from the public transport system.

This scene from Utopia is yet again extremely relevant

Working on curing childhood cancer is emotional because it’s something that we as a society value collectively but clearly aren’t compensating the work enough. Why should we pay a pittance to people who have 5+ years of training under their belt? Is it simply because they’ll make more in the future? That sounds like a pretty exploitative system to me.

The fact that you call kilometers “klicks” does my head in since the rest of the English speaking world shortens it to “kays”

I had to go in-person to a branch with ID, but once I was there it was pretty quick.