Travelling to work has become a thing of the past for many https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/01/27/daily-commute-must-evolve-lure-back-britains-covid-aristocracy/

According to the @ONS, before the arrival of coronavirus only 5% of Britons regularly worked from home.

By June 14 last year, 49% had done so in the previous week

Many people's new “commute” involves walking to the spare bedroom

One reason rail and bus travel may never go back to the way it was is that commuters have saved too much money.

A commuter travelling from Reading to London would spend £4,736 on an annual rail season ticket.

Those prices are due to rise by 2.6% from March 1

“Some employers will use this home-office balance now as a differentiator – ‘come and work for us and you can work from home more’'" - Mike Hewitson, head of policy at passenger watchdog Transport Focus

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"We have done a lot of analysis on how a bus fills up and everybody on every single attempt does their best not to sit next to somebody until they really have to" - Sam Ryan, chief executive of bus company, Zeelo

Passenger numbers dropped to about 10 to 15% in rail and down to about 20% in bus, according to Katy Taylor, chief strategy and customer officer at Go-Ahead Group, which runs train operators GTR and Southeastern, as well as a number of regional bus companies

More than 57% of UK drivers say having access to a car is more important than before the pandemic, with reluctance to use public transport in the future at its highest level in 18 years, according to research for @TheRAC_UK

. @transportgovuk has pledged to spend £2bn on cycle lanes across the country over the next five years to encourage people to ditch their cars

In September, the @ONS published data revealing that, of those planning to work from home all or part of the time, 12% have considered moving to a different location, with rural or coastal areas the most common

“We could see people making longer journeys to and from their workplace – travelling a greater number of miles but less frequently,” says Bob Powell, customer proposition director at @AvantiWestCoast, which runs the West Coast Main Line

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the railways end up becoming nationalised” - Richard Cresswell, director of London recruitment business @HealthRecruitN