London’s Underground system is heaving.

London’s Underground system is heaving. Since 2007 the number of journeys on the Tube has increased by 30%; passengers now make 4m trips on it each day. The congestion is also spreading out—the number of people travelling off-peak has almost doubled. Such shifting patterns hint at the ways in which Londoners are changing the way they live and work. The Tube is now starting to change to accommodate http://econ.st/1JDPVQH

Squeezing in

WHEN Catherine Mulligan, a part-time economist at a non-profit group, commutes from her home in south-west London to her office in Clerkenwell, in the centre, she...

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