Traffic Is Back to Normal in London and New York
- London traffic shows commuting headed back to normal levels
- Storms cancel flights across many U.S. cities this week
Traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.
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Traffic in London and New York exceeded pre-pandemic levels on Monday, the first time since early December that both cities have shown that kind of congestion at the start of the week and a sign that commuting may be getting back to normal.
Traffic was higher than pre-coronavirus levels in the U.K. capital for a third consecutive Monday morning, according to TomTom NV data. That’s in contrast to other European cities and perhaps reflects the omicron-variant infection wave peaking two or three weeks earlier in the U.K. than elsewhere. The government dropped its work-from-home advice for England on Jan. 19.