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I find at the moment cycling is seen as very all or nothing by the majority of people. A fair number of the statements you just posted seem to agree once you bike to one place you must then bike to all the places so they can't bike to that 6 mile away office and then take public transport the other days. Get them to fair weather cycle in the spring and you can break them.
I think our central trains being in meltdown is another sign of our roads being full of cars. Buses aren't able to move people as efficiently as needed so people are using trains more even for shorter journeys where a buses should make sense. Trains from further away are fucked for other reasons, the platform length comments(on the clapham junction-balham-croydon-brighton route I live on) tend to ignore that the timetables are dictated around the use of shared tracks at clapham junction, they could run 3 times as many trains to/from stations before that without the conflict but insist on running end to end on every train line. From what train working friends have told me we have bits like that dotted about London that basically disrupt service for 100miles. The way the operators are negotiated also leaves no room for improvement and it's worthwhile for them to keep the to the same and just bump ticket price 5% a year.
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Getting bikes back onto trains is going to be challenging, when most of the train operators in London forbid you from taking unfolded ones on trains during rush hour.
Had a conversation with a colleague yesterday who was late into work owing to tube/train problems. He lives in Earlsfield, and the office is in Green Park - 6 miles away. A perfect cycle commuting distance. He doesn't see the point in biking though as:
'It's too dangerous'
'It's usually quicker by train/tube'
'I'd have to spend £800 on a Brompton, as I couldn't fit a full sized bike in my flat'
'I go out at the weekends in London, so I might as well just get a travelcard'
'I also have to work out of our City office, which is 9 miles from home'
'There's a big hill that I'd have to ride up'
All reasonably valid points for someone who's not used to cycling.....