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London’s couch potatoes are missing out on life

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26 May 2017
 

I was shocked to read that, on any given day of the week, a fifth of Londoners make no journeys (‘Fifth of Londoners stay at home all day’ LTT 12 May). 

During the coalition Government a transport minister had the task of reducing the need to travel written into his job description. But staying at home all day? Surely that is taking things to the extreme, and an unhealthy extreme at that. 

A proportion of these people may be physically incapacitated but I would guess the...

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