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Good post.

I think it's easy to forget your starting bias when you like cycling and live in London, where on balance cycling / walking is often the best transport on offer. What's the solution if you wanted to transport 3 children to 2 difference schools and had to cross the North Circular?

Now I'm in the 'burbs I use the car more than I should. Why? It's quick, comfortable and practical (and I've not sorted out a runnaround bike). Oddly I routinely walk further to meetings than I would to the shops. What practical restriction could be placed on me?

• make it illegal for me to own a car? - well it would work.
  
• fuel price? - I wouldn't correlate it to a small distance.
  
• a congestion zone? -would it be economically viable? What about people who really do have drive further a-field to work?
  
  

I would also query whether using a car to run errands and long journeys is "the thing" that decreases my fitness? Or is it a total lifestyle combination of; commute > sit at PC > eat at PC > commute > TV / drinks / food?

I think "the" solution is a more holistic change in how people view their lives. I've been quite heavily motivated by this article in the newyorker took me to mr money mustache's blog