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Back to school

Schools are well and truly back – and with them the dreaded school-run traffic. The car is the usual means of travel to school for a third of kids, and makes up about 27% of rush hour traffic in London. According to the AA, only 20% of schools encourage cycling, often because of safety fears.

Growing up in rural Somerset, I dreamt of riding my bike to school, but three miles of narrow, winding

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