Monday essay: commuting catastrophe ahead?
Once again some media commentators are predicting the end of commuting as we have known it for well over a century, and implying that it also could spell disaster for public transport systems. This kind of forecast is based on the quaint notion that transport organisations rail operators in particular have been minting money because they sell so many season tickets (or used to sell them). The reality is that there wasnât, because so many assets had to be employed to provide an artificially intensive service for just a few hours each day.