This morning's Radio 4 news was full of Brexit, this week's Grenfell disaster inquiry, and snow.
The single statement that most resonated with me afterwards was "most of the rush-hour traffic has disappeared because of school shut-downs".
Imagine a world, or just a little country, where it would be universally seen as TRULY WEIRD if a schoolchild was driven to school, and the school they went to was the nearest one to their home, regardless of OFTED reports.
True, segregated cycle-paths meandered from all points outward toward schools, colleges, high streets - as intra-town traffic filed gently past, at 20mph on the narrowed streets where normal, everyday, non-lycra, non-headgear, non-hi-vis middle-aged cyclists pop to the local shops, basket on Bike.
Christmas dreams.
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