Half of London Companies plan for remote working 5 days a week

[d000hg]

Reducing pressure on an already strained tube sounds a great idea. My favourite time to be traveling in London is about 6am, so much nicer.

[AtW]

Public transport doesn't work like that - cut train numbers and usage can drop significantly.

People will walk more to their local parks to feed the greys, that’s the end game and you’ve heard it on here first (as always).

[ladymuck]

Les trains per hour will be needed

Fewer

[AtW]

Fewer

[mattster]

This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to solve road congestion and overcrowded trains. All they need to do is maintain current levels of service and reduced number of commuters, whilst throwing a bit of money at public transport to make up the difference in ticket sales.
What will probably happen instead is that services will be cut, ticket prices increased to compensate for lower sales, whilst commuter numbers creep back up to what they were before - this time with severely curtailed services and even higher prices.

[LondonManc]

This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to solve road congestion and overcrowded trains. All they need to do is maintain current levels of service and reduced number of commuters, whilst throwing a bit of money at public transport to make up the difference in ticket sales.
What will probably happen instead is that services will be cut, ticket prices increased to compensate for lower sales, whilst commuter numbers creep back up to what they were before - this time with severely curtailed services and even higher prices.

London's transport is already vastly more subsidised than the rest of the country. If you're talking about in general, fine, but Manchester doesn't have the transport infrastructure to encourage people to commute via bus, tram, etc enough.

[mattster]

London's transport is already vastly more subsidised than the rest of the country. If you're talking about in general, fine, but Manchester doesn't have the transport infrastructure to encourage people to commute via bus, tram, etc enough.

I certainly wasn't being London specific, and the road congestion could presumably be improved everywhere with fewer people commuting.

Nothing wrong with subsidising public transport anywhere, IMO, if having that transport helps generate wealth elsewhere - I'm not even sure you could call that subsidising really, just investment in one area for payoff in another.

[AtW]

just investment in one area for payoff in another.

Public losses with private profits model

[_V_]

Les trains per hour will be needed

TGV?

[OwlHoot]

Les trains per hour will be needed

Fewer

unless he was talking about the Paris Metro!