You are engaging in selective quoting, taking away half of the sentence to make it mean something completely different to what it said: what is the word that is just after the bit you quoted, and which was moreover, underlined? It was the word "and". I do not see how I could have made it any clearer that it is the cumulation of the two things which I find irksome. The fragment of sentence that you quoted makes no sense on its own: you need to quote the whole sentence for it to make sense, otherwise where is the double-whammy? If that was not enough, I stated not just once, but twice that I perfectly understood that a government might want to have resident-only fares.
I just do not understand how, somebody who speaks English as their mother tongue, could in good faith read what I said as implying that I objected to resident fares, especially when I expressly stated the opposite.

So, if you genuinely misunderstood what I said, then perhaps you will want to say that you are sorry to have wrongly attributed to me views that I quite clearly do not have and that we remain one big happy FT family?