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    End of the line

    Nov 17, 2021 3 minutes

    Daily commuting, as it has existed for most of the past 150 years, looks as if it will be one of the terminal victims of the pandemic.

    No more will hundreds of packed trains deposit workers in the morning and bring them back whence they came in the evening. Few are likely to mourn its passing.

    I have mixed feelings about this great liberation. On the one hand, it has all come two decades too late for me, since I commuted every working day

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