It's mentioned in the article that an average travelcard for zones 1-6 in London is ££3000 but that understates the issue. Many commuters are outside of the zon

It's mentioned in the article that an average travelcard for zones 1-6 in London is ££3000 but that understates the issue. Many commuters are outside of the zones for a start, and yearly season tickets can be more like £4000-5000, and even that is only if you're able to walk to the nearest train station, which means you're paying a massive premium for housing, if you don't live close you'll be looking at another £1500 a year for parking. Not only that, but the season tickets are regulated and cheaper than just buying a ticket every day, but there's no "3 day a week" option. So if they ask you to come in 3 days a week it's often as expensive or more expensive than buying the full time season ticket. Oh but there's even better news, because of the pandemic and remote work the number of commuters is massively down, this would be great! Nice quiet trains, get a seat on the train into work every day! No, no, no. What we're going to do instead is change the timetable so that even fewer trains run so that commute you're paying thousands of pounds for? You'll be doing that standing up in a sweaty carriage packed in with a hundred other people if you're lucky enough to get on the train. But it gets better! Because they're running fewer trains they need fewer staff, so they're "negotiating" with the rail unions. The result is that between december and mid-january I managed exactly 0 days in the office. That's right, there's not a single day that I needed to go into the office that the trains were running because the staff were on strike. The truth is that there's a side of this equation that isn't really discussed as much as it should be. Yes, people started working from home during the pandemic, but actually, commuting to London has become very significantly worse since the pandemic for a lot of people, and the UK economy is going to continue to suffer as a result.