I am wondering what coronavirus has meant for people all over the world with regards to transport:<p>1. Personal - how have your views of transport changed? Have your preferences changed?
- e.g. I (London, UK) am now more likely to cycle or drive a car to avoid possible infection on public transport<p>2. Governmental - has your government changed how transport services operate or are allowed to operate?#
- e.g. London transport services were reduced (due to worker illness and isolation and additional measures required for sanitations) and people were encouraged to work from home.<p>3. Social - Has commuter behaviour changed in your neighbourhood?
- e.g. London initially saw a huge amount of working from home and therefore a reduction in commuting, but has started ramping up recently
I live about 3 miles from my office (suburbs with 25 mile per hour speed limits the whole way), but because of restrictions on eating at my desk, for the past few years I had been driving home for lunch every day -- in other words, spending 40 minutes a day commuting because the 10-minute drive was repeated 4 times. (I used to occasionally walk into the office & skip lunch, but that was very dependent on the weather, & I couldn't manage that more than twice in a week because I'd get blisters.)<p>Since the work-from-home order came down, I've gone from driving 40 minutes every weekday to driving perhaps three minutes a week, and rather than refilling my gas tank every two weeks, I haven't had to fill it in about a month and a half.<p>I've had to go into the office a few times since the coronavirus began -- due to power outages, VPN problems, etc. Most of those times, I walked in.
1. Completely, since I now work fully remotely. I rarely drive. When I leave the house, it's almost always on foot.<p>2. The local city government has shut down or restricted use of public transit. The federal government is worse than useless and has not instituted any real changes.<p>3. Minneapolis traffic is 70% lower than it was this time in 2019. Most of us who can work remotely are working remotely.
I didn't step into public transport for half a year. I don't travel much now, but where I go, I go by car. The public transport here in Prague has been downsized a lot, to summer vacation levels.