We’re safer in our cars than on public transport – another reason for scrapping HS2 and using the money to transform our road infrastructure along the lines advocated here.
Corona also shows, as if we didn’t already know, that a good proportion of the workforce could work from home and avoid stressful, polluting, pointless journeys to and from workplaces.
Moreover, why don’t they (whoever they are) delay school start times? As well as cutting congestion and pollution, it would give teens the rest they need to perform better and live longer, healthier lives.