Rail journeys down 92% in April-June of this year compared to the same period last year!

Tooting Carmen, I am serious now. I really wish that you will find a handsome top Welsh cricket player one day and you both should make a journey with old trains throughout Europe. Only you are that positive to post this kind of information about trains here although you know nobody does care about such topucs unless it is about a comparison between Hungarians in Hungary and Hungarians from Romania or the distribution of light eyes in Greek islands. I don’t understand why some are obsessed with you, I prefer a guy who cares about train than a guy who is worried about his eye, hair or skin colour.

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/...r-jun-2022.pdf

Between April and June 2022, rail journeys were at 75.8% of pre-pandemic rates.

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/....pdf?width=500

Between July and September 2022, rail journeys were at 80.3% of pre-pandemic rates.

Between October and December 2022, rail journeys were at 80% of pre-pandemic rates. https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/...t-dec-2022.pdf

Between January and March 2023, rail journeys were at 88% of pre-pandemic rates. Furthermore, for the whole year April 2022 to March 2023, rail journeys were at 86% of pre-pandemic rates. https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/...n-mar-2023.pdf

Probably because rail travel is shit and getting shittier

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Probably because rail travel is shit and getting shittier

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBG2xeemUw

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Probably because rail travel is shit and getting shittier

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I was thinking work from home in many fields, but who knows. corporate jobs in Romania work 90% from home (almost) all the time now for example, so a lot of commute inside the city and from suburbs to the city is not happening anymore. companies usually have a hybrid model like 2 or 3 days a week from the office and the rest from home but few companies enforce it and in practice everyone is home all the time and companies give up floor space in the office buildings and just employ like 1/3 or 1/4 of the space and in case they need to bring people in they make plans and bring them in different days so that they can use the space they have now after the pandemic. wfh is shit tbh

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I was thinking work from home in many fields, but who knows. corporate jobs in Romania work 90% from home (almost) all the time now for example, so a lot of commute inside the city and from suburbs to the city is not happening anymore. companies usually have a hybrid model like 2 or 3 days a week from the office and the rest from home but few companies enforce it and in practice everyone is home all the time and companies give up floor space in the office buildings and just employ like 1/3 or 1/4 of the space and in case they need to bring people in they make plans and bring them in different days so that they can use the space they have now after the pandemic. wfh is shit tbh

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Won't that basically kill off city centres?

Anyway, it seems that rail travel in the UK is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/...r-jun-2023.pdf
"With the Elizabeth line excluded, there were 339 million journeys in the latest quarter, which equates to 80% of the 424 million journeys in April to June 2019 (pre-pandemic).
With the Elizabeth line included, the relative usage was 89% compared to pre-pandemic."