O/T Coronavirus Thread (3)

[Exiletyke]

A general rule seems to be that to maintain safe social distancing public transport can only carry 20% of it's normal capacity. I'd say on the tube it's probably more like 10% at best at peak times. The only way you can get the numbers down to that level is to ask non-essential riders (e.g. office workers who can work from home) to stay away. Unfortunately though services can't survive on 10% of income. I hear TFL are only a couple of days away from needing extensive financial support.

Companies staggering start times might help

[howdydoo]

Companies staggering start times might help

You should become a consultant. Who’d have thought ..... Brilliant.

[Exiletyke]

You should become a consultant. Who’d have thought ..... Brilliant.

Aye thanks
You could be my assistant

[millertop]

We were talking about passengers on the London underground
But I guess with your attention span you couldn't comprehend could you?
& you refer to others as loons

If you don’t get what he’s saying then maybe that’s the problem with some in society

[ragingpup]

If you don’t get what he’s saying then maybe that’s the problem with some in society

Irony free. Whoosh

[ragingpup]

A general rule seems to be that to maintain safe social distancing public transport can only carry 20% of it's normal capacity. I'd say on the tube it's probably more like 10% at best at peak times. The only way you can get the numbers down to that level is to ask non-essential riders (e.g. office workers who can work from home) to stay away. Unfortunately though services can't survive on 10% of income. I hear TFL are only a couple of days away from needing extensive financial support.

Well it leaves the government with a choice. Run at a safer passenger number and subsidise to keep transport going and then increase the levels as we progress against the virus or do as we are doing, just let people re incubate the virus and run risk of complete lock down again.

[flourbasher]

I guess I wasn't clear on what my concern was, as like others you seem to think I am talking about the creation of safe working environments. I don't have any concerns about safe working environments, I trust most employers, like us, will do the right thing and open when safe to do so.

The issue I flagged up was people safely travelling to work when they have no other alternative but tube or buses, which have we have seen have been full in peak times. So clearly, many employers have (hopefully) created safe places for their staff to work, but it isn't rocket science to see that when all of these workers are travelling together (all wearing masks and using hand gel no doubt) then without organising the transport infrastructure (numbers of people accessing at any one time, management of crowds), then the virus that is still passing amongst us will likely respread in cities at least. At that as implications for further implications on wider people's health and the economy when a 2nd wave and lockdown occurs.

Sorry but I don't think a virus recognises a "winning metality". It will only respond to well structured, well organised human behaviour that stops it spreading from one host to the next.

So, just to be clear, it isn't about employers and safe working environments!! It's about travel in cities. Hope that this is clearer **hangs head and weeps**

I think we've been commenting on different issues. Mine started by suggesting Perspex might be useful which isn't travel related
I was referring to owners of hospitality type venues, many of whom seem to be complaining they're doomed as there is no way of creating safer environments in their type of shops.
I was suggesting that with a bit of lateral thinking anything,s possible . If they don't have the capacity to think it through then there are many examples in the media particularly in Scandinavian countries on what's possible

None of my observations related to travel which is a different subject entirely

[Timbertop]

One of the Scottish clubs (Dundee United ?) is making face masks in the club colours. Is anybody enterprising enough at RUFC to do the same ? Got to be a market there. I'd certainly buy a few.

[CAMiller]

One of the Scottish clubs (Dundee United ?) is making face masks in the club colours. Is anybody enterprising enough at RUFC to do the same ? Got to be a market there. I'd certainly buy a few.

Yes, the sports teams here have had them on sale for a while and are doing a roaring trade. On a related note, I believe flourbasher has started producing blue and white striped toilet paper to plug the national shortage.

[the_idiotb_stardson]

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