Londoners Eat Out Much More Often as Lockdown Eases - Bloomberg

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Londoners have been out much more frequently in recent days. The number of seated diners in London restaurants was 22% lower than a year earlier on Aug. 30, an improvement on the 43% drop recorded on Aug. 23, according to OpenTable Inc. Retail traffic and transport demand have increased, too.

• Londoners rode more trains, buses and city bikes in the week to Aug. 30, with demand for public transportation falling 48% below pre-coronavirus levels, compared with a 51% decline the previous week, according to Moovit App Global Ltd. data
• Congestion on London streets dropped to 25% at 5 p.m. yesterday, from 46% a week earlier, according to the TomTom Traffic Index. The year-earlier level was 57%. This morning, however, congestion rose above last week’s level
• The number of scheduled flights from London airports in the week to Sept. 1 increased 0.2% to 5,009 from 5,000 the week before, according to FlightRadar24:

• The Port of London saw 143 unique ship visits in the week to Aug. 17, according to the Office of National Statistics, compared with 154 the previous week
• The ShopperTrak Traffic Index, which measures shopping activity, fell 47% year-on-year in the week of Aug. 17, compared with a 52% decline the week before
• As of Aug. 31, a total of 39,419 Covid-19 cases have been reported in London since the beginning of the epidemic, up from 38,182 a week previously

This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation.

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