London's Transport Network Has Collided, Is It?

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People are still taking busses almost as much as they used to, but there's almost no rush a any more. Things get a bitBusier in the morning and a bit busier in the late afternoon,. But we don't any more have the sort of russia that wee used to. Is much, much more spread out during the day. Week ends are almost as busy, sometimes more busy, than they used to be. What has really happened is that week day travel, especially week day rush out travel, has collapsed. People just aren't going to work as much, yes?

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