I ride my bike already but if I was going to our office in Yorkshire (which I do frequently) I'd take a train, I hope it's an airport strike.

London's always having transport strikes. I usually just walk if I need to travel on those days. I don't own a bike and can't ride one anyway.

For the great majority of workers in the US, there are only two realistic options for getting to work: public transportation or private automobile. Even in a highly congested place like New York City, filled with apartments, almost no one can walk or bicycle to work. Some use bikes, but it's rather difficult to keep a bike in an apartment house, and even more difficult to park one outside an office building or store. (The few who use bikes chain them to parking meters with huge chains, remove the front wheel, and carry it up to their desks.)

Yes, there are still small shops where the owners live upstairs, and little villages where people live no more than a mile or so from their employment; but I daresay those represent no more than two or three percent of employed persons.

There are very few roads in the US where it is safe to ride a bicycle. If there was a general strike of public transportation, there would be far more cars on the roads, so those who would try to ride a bike to work would face a serious chance of not getting to work at all, ever again.

An increasing phenomenon in the US is Telecommuting -- people who do all their work on the phone or via the internet. That has led, for example, to a population boom and rapid increase in real estate prices in Vermont -- where big-city expatriates move, to make a living and become freed from all public transportation, strikes, traffic jams, and all.

For myself, I'm retired. Hence, I don't need to leave home unless I want to. So they can have all the transit strikes they want. And my wife drives to her job.

I'd only cycle if everyone else was too - the roads I use to get to work are not compatible with pushbikes (windy country roads at national speed limit with not that much room to pass)

I am happy to cycle .. the only problem is cars on the road never seem to see me !!!