Why would anyone expect London to be different from New York, Chicago, Lost Angeles, Philadelphia, Houston or other large cities?
I expect suburban satellite business hubs are taking the place of the old city-center aspect.
I watched this take place in greater Lost Angeles. In the early 70s morning traffic was bumper to bumper on freeways heading IN towards the center of the area.
But in Orange County the Irvine-Airport business hub expanded, such that in the mid 80s traffic reversed, became bumper to bumper heading to that Satellite.
I believe London has had this same trend. It makes it possible for workers to have shorter commute times, and/or live farther away from the big city, and all that is bad which goes with that.
Back to here, Orange County was once the bedroom community you moved to in order to get away from the big city, to get cheaper newer housing, etc.
And unspoken is always: part of getting away from what is bad with the big city means the racial minorities, their higher crime rates, etc.
I recall when Orange County was largely agricultural. My mother grew up on a farm a few blocks from where Fry's Electroics in Fountain Valley is now located, and my uncle ran a chicken farm on what is now Disneyland's back lot.
This is exactly why all the urban libtards are now pushing the concept of REGIONALISM. It’s nothing but an attempt to collect taxes from the suburbs for the decaying democrat cities they are spending into the ground and allowing to go to hell.