Pandemic has surprising impacts on public transit demand

[Jim__]

Interesting, a large number of "essential workers" are dependent upon public transit.

From phys.org:

The COVID-19 pandemic had surprising effects on demand for public transit in American cities, new research suggests.

While demand for public transit dropped about 73% across the country after the pandemic hit, the reduction didn't impact all cities equally, according to the study, which analyzed activity data from a widely used public transit navigation app.

Large, coastal cities—like Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C—saw demand fall further than cities in the Midwest and South. The reason had to do with the nature of jobs in different cities and who was actually using public transportation before the pandemic, said Luyu Liu, lead author of the study and doctoral student in geography at The Ohio State University.

"Many of the people who used public transit in large, coastal cities could work remotely from home after the pandemic," Liu said.

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[enid602]

1. Asian

The photo looks more like an Asian city rather than Dubuque or Minneapolis.

[mr_lebowski]

3. It's Hong Kong :) nt

[bamagal62]

4. It's Hong Kong.

The bus says Yuen Long.

[lagomorph777]

5. Yup.

[mr_lebowski]

2. +1 for the cool Hong Kong pic ...

At least I'm pretty damn sure that's Hong Kong.

The giveaway that makes me close to 100% sure?

The yellow and white keep left sign at the right/middle.

Those are all over HK ... they're a British style.

Okay, I also recognize the symbol of the HK subway system