‘The leisure market is recovering, and recovering strongly. We are going to have to be flexible [and] innovative, and we now need to set about winning our market back’
Demand for train travel will bounce back to pre-pandemic levels despite lagging behind car use, a minister has said.
Department for Transport figures show the number of journeys being made by train in Britain is approximately 57 per cent of what it was before the coronavirus crisis, while car use has fully recovered. Asked if train passenger numbers will return to normal, rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris replied: ‘I think we will but I don’t think there will be the numbers at the same times of day that there used to be.’Before the Covid outbreak, the rail network saw a surge in demand from commuters during weekday mornings and evenings, but was often quiet during other periods.‘The leisure market is recovering, and recovering strongly.
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