You can cycle in the rain. Just plan and get the needed equipment for it.

Also allow me to point you to Mexico City - you can’t imagine the hell it is for car drivers when all the things you mention happen (rain, protests choking half the city, and the subway shut down due to either failure or a strike). I’m talking literally 4-5 hours to get to your in-the-city destination; I once spent 2 hours driving half a kilometer and it was only raining. Just in case your actual point is “it’s better to drive as you’re less vulnerable to an eventuality with public transport or alternative mobility”.

Those darn Leftists! Imagine the paradise if we made protesting illegal and just let corporations and government have full control over our lives.

If the union strike is so inconvenient, management should agree on a deal promptly.

Only the tube is affected by the strike.

Overground, National Rail, DLR, the Elizabeth line, trams and buses are all working. And the few parts of the tube network that don't have any nearby heavy rail services (eg. the Hainault loop on the Central line) are mostly still running.

Sure, the non-tube services are (much!) busier than normal but this situation is actually a great demonstration of one of the most important factors in making public transport useful: route redundancy, so that if one is suspended for whatever reason there are reasonable alternative options for most journeys.

i am totally an advocate of the 15 minute city, but the strike thing is a genuine problem, it's total blackmail. yes, they are asking for better working conditions, but then you look into the details and it's because early retirement age has been raised from 56 to 58 and days off have been reduced from 28 to 26. that sort of thing cannot be indulged. i'm getting to an age where i know seniors in my european side of the family that have been retired longer than they have worked, but insist they deserve their yearly vacation. that social contract meme is real.

Taipei moves on scooters. It also rains a lot. Every office has hangers in the stairwells for rain ponchos. Adapting to rain seems very doable.

Don't they have rain coats in London? :-)

I mean I feel for you but cycling in the rain is not that big of a deal, greetings from the Netherlands