Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskSince last September the daily number of public-transport trips taken in London has hardly changed, even as pandemic-related restrictions have been lifted. The Tube is about three-quarters as busy as it was before covid-19 hit, buses about four-fifths as busy. Travel behaviour seems to be stabilising around the country. “We’re approaching a steady state,” says Jonathan Spruce, a trustee of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
A similar thing has occurred on the London Underground. The number of people passing through ticket barriers between 8am and 9am on May 12th was 33% lower than three years earlier, while travel between 3pm and 4pm was down by 21%, and travel between 10pm and 11pm just 7% lower. Londoners are making different journeys, too. Trips within the city became shorter in the first year of the pandemic; the average distance fell from 4.4km to 2.8km.
But changes in working habits are likely to endure. A survey by the Office for National Statistics in early April found that 23% of all businesses and 43% of professional-services firms expect a permanent increase in home working. Both those proportions are the highest they have been since thebegan asking this question in September 2020. Companies are trying to entice workers back by making offices more alluring.
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like someone else pointed out: it's called recession (or its beginning)
Work from home could be a reason too.
Chill.
Maybe because the prices of cars almost doubled?
1/2: I've largely stopped using public transport. It cost me nearly £300 for a 30-40min journey on dirty, overcrowded & old trains with no air con, & the services are unreliable & oft delayed. Working from home means I don't need to waste money on a terrible service.
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