France trials paying people to ride bike to work

I'd like to see a government subsidise cycling by handing out envelopes full of cash to cyclists on the road. They'd have to do at random unexpected times and locations. This would subsidise cycling rather than bike purchase, and encourage people who already have bikes to use them more often.

Instead of getting a regular £3 per day subsidy as in france you might expect £100 thirty times a decade, or there could be a range of prize levels to make it more interesting.

"25 centimes per kilometre"?! Seriously? I'd earn 4 euros a day!

It might be more lucrative for me to get a job a couple of hundred kilometres away and just take the cycling money.

The company I'm currently doing work for has a huge issue with parking.

The office is about 2 miles from the city centre in Leeds. Parking that comes with the building is full, they pay a local hotel - 6 min walk away for extra spaces, they pay for a mini bus that does 4 runs morning & evening to the station (the regular bus service is not good)

So why is paying staff to cycle (and free up spaces in the car park and on the mini bus) such an odd concept?

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Goddamn.

Mark my words this is not a measure by the French government to save the environment. It is a devious way of finding their next Tour de France winner.

It's been a long time now, 1985 to be exact since a French man won the Tour de France.

This clever way of getting people on to their bikes is just the start. Soon they will be fining people who don't ride their bikes to work at least 3 times a week.

No doubt we will see the French government make it law that all cyclists have to submit their Strava times as soon as they get to and from work. The fastest commuters will be head hunted for future TDF cycling teams.

Think I'll move to France and work 7 days a week.

HMRC already stamped their approval on it by insisting a 25% min devaluation of bikes when people took the mick at paid 5% of the bikes value in a year,.

just to get this right the C2W scheme is not a tax free loan at all, and FFS dont let HRMC catch onto the fact that this is pretty much how some employers run it, during the "loan period" the asset remains the property of the Employer, and at the end of the agreement, the employer may sell or gift the asset to the employee, however in the case of it being gifted, there are still PAYE liabilities owed.

Im broad terms C2W is a Salary Sacrifice Scheme where the Employer provides a BIKE, not a loan or an opportunity for purchase