Organisations that try to enforce it with strict social distancing are just pushing an agenda to depress public transport usage in defiance of any evidence or logic.
I don't think that this is true at all. However, even if it were true, there are many good reasons why companies might not want many people to be in confined spaces. It only takes one person not wearing a face covering who is contagious to potentially infect several others close by. It's also something many companies will be worried about legally. If there's a relevant legal duty of care and someone catches the virus in a confined space without social distancing, then dies, there's a big risk of claims that there was a 'gross breach' of that duty. Many organisations are clearly fearful of Corporate Manslaughter charges if there's a significant increase in infections again.
In the last 3 weeks (when I've had a decent amount of spare time on my hands) I've spent about £400 on diesel. If you like the outdoors, there are plenty of places to go. The railway would have had all of that (and probably more; I'll happily day trip far further by train than car, for instance the Lake District from MK is too long a day trip by car but I've done it by train before and would again) if they hadn't been telling me to get lost.
I had hoped the mask thing would result in that being permitted (by the railway) or even welcomed...but instead I'm going on another long trip tomorrow by car. That's another £80 or so the railway has not received.
To be fair, they're still getting nearly all of that money anyway, but from your taxes rather than your ticket purchases. They don't "need" it, as they did.
I’m happy to wear masks as a rule, but for god’s sake Boris, tell the public those without a car can use trains again. Are you saying those who don’t drive should forfeit trips to visit friends or nice places just because they have no car?!
That people are taking this sort of message home with them is not really that surprising surely? Governments hasn't been anti-car, or very pro-alternative for a very long time. Johnson hasn't
ever strongly encouraged car alternatives, and his party has been pro-car for a long time.