Any motorist driving to work at school times will be familiar with the congestion caused by the school run - but what are parents to do?  Schools are often not within walking distance of home and if you have two or three children at different schools – which does happen - how do you cope? Choice (whatever it may be) is universally held to be a good thing, but in practice it often means that children do not go to the nearest school.  How can government want parents to have a choice of school on social grounds, and also encourage women to work on economic grounds, and promote children walking to school on health grounds - but at the same time make all of this all but impossible because it means that children attend schools miles from home?  There is a further effect, namely that driving is the only practical way of getting children to school on time, especially outside the major conurbations.

So much for environmental policy.

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