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I mean you could take the bike just those few days, plenty of people do it all year round for 20 miles.
In all seriousness, I can't see how that's realistic in anything but ideal climate if you need to maintain a professional appearance. Either you get to work as a blob of sweat and stank because it's hot outside, or you get to work as a blob of sweat and stank because it's cold as fucking balls and you need to have twenty layers of clothes so the outside doesn't literally kill you in 30 seconds.
A lot of offices have showers for that reason. Personally I'd have an extra set of clothing and wash up at the sink and there were others doing it too. And it's just for a few days, it's not the end of the world.
Fair enough, I guess that would work.
I understand your frustration though. In Berlin an ambulance got stuck and the patient died. Nobody wanted that and it remains a complex issue.