S.O. wants to help you use your car a little less by hoping on your bike a little more,

especially for those shorter trips, like the popping out for a pint of milk trip,

or the off-to-pick up the kids' trip, or even the Friday night chippy trip.

And to make the swap easier, every day S.O. is giving away an e-bike and 10,000

nectar points that you could spend on cycling gear. Could you do a journey differently?

Search S.O. Thoughtful Driving to find out more. See terms and conditions at s-o-dot-co.uk.

This is John Bachelors, a conversation with reporter Greg Smith of the City and online journal

about the Rad Infestation in New York City Public Housing, the oldest in the nation.

Greg tells me there is no easy solution other than spending money and hiring people

to both inspect and then solve the Rad Infestation. It's particularly frightening to learn

that unknown number of the buildings of New York City Public Housing, some built in the 30s,

some built in the 50s and 60s, unknown number have dirt floors in the basement.

Dirt floors and the rot population takes advantage. Here's Greg describing going into a building

with a dirt floor in the Bronx.

Well, things in public housing in New York City, most of them were built before the 60s

and some of them came back to the 30s. This is where public housing started, New York City.

And some of them are from the 40s.

The several of them are from the 50s and 60s and many of them have a basement floor that is dirt.

So it's not, it's actually, it looks like a root cellar in some of these places where you have

no concrete and this magnificent landscape for the Norwegian rat to build his own little

condominium. And I can tell you that I have seen these underground burrows and these are within

the actual building. So they're underneath where people are living in the basement.

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