This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Quote: "A similar scheme was introduced in France in 2014, with mixed results. While a six-month trial found that paying people to cycle to work did increase the numbers doing so, the majority had been using public transport, rather than private vehicles."

That doesn't surprise me. I need my car to do the school run, and schools runs have such a massive variety of routes (from a home to a school and then to a work place somewhere else) they're extremely difficult/impossible without a car to do unless you're in a really big city/it's with a few miles with good cycle lanes.

Amsterdam got that nailed with cycle lanes and box bikes (which cost a bloody mint) but in most place it's near impossible.