The Metropolis

A third of Londoners drive to work. Are they mad?

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 2 June, 2011 13:40

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The figure is 35%. Driving! Despite the congestion charge, the impossibility of parking, the traffic, the lack of decent radio stations, the constant threat of terrifying hordes of cyclists, you know, the environment, despite all this, more tha one in three workers in this city drives to the coalface. Unfathomable.

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