Sounds like sound advice to me.
Anyway, I feel bad I have to drive Alfie to nursery, but we live in the middle of nowhere, and his nursery is on the other side of nowhere, so it's a lot of nowhere in between without a direct route/safe cycle route or regular (any) bus service.
I'm convinced if public transport were better a lot more people would use it a lot more often.
Thing is, when it comes to public transport it seems policy is lead by profit, not getting people on board, yet when it comes to personal transport we're expected to pay through the nose.