RAIL use plummeted to just a fifth of pre-pandemic levels as people worked from home.
The Office of Rail and Road revealed that during the year 2020-21, the latest for which statistics are available, the total number of journeys for the South East region was 62.2 million.
This equates to 20.3% of the 306 million journeys made in 2019-20.
The South East recorded 35.5 million journeys to or from other regions, the equivalent of 16.0% of the 222 million journeys made in 2019-20.
London accounted for 89.7% of these journeys. The 31.8 million journeys to or from London in 2020-21 equate to 15.7% of the 203 million journeys recorded in 2019-20.
Overall, there were 344 million passenger journeys made in Great Britain in 2020-21. This equates to 22.9% of the 1,504 million journeys recorded in 2019-2021, and is the lowest number of journeys since modern records began in 1995-96.
