Date: 2021-08-06 03:55 am (UTC)
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It could well be!

I think public transit is going to convulse; do we, for example, now actually need the TTC downtown relief line? the opportunity to not spend the money is going to be intensely attractive. Grand River Transit publishes rolling-average ridership numbers, and current usage is around a third of the pre-pandemic numbers. Did they really need the light rail line?

The TTC has a long history of making the monthly passes only worthwhile if you are a M-F commuter. I suspect they're going to go right on doing that. I would hope there isn't going to be a fare increase to make up the revenue short fall, because people won't cope with ten dollar TTC tickets.

I see so few people in masks that I wonder how much connection to "didn't get a cold" people are making. I hope you are right.

You being right about the commercial real estate would be excellent; there's a lot of volume that could be put to other uses involved. (Though if I'm feeling cynical it might be the case that the cost of retrofitting adequate ventilation -- which is not known to be possible without requiring hearing protection -- is going to have an affect on this, too.)

I figure the whole question of mandatory vaccination is going to be interesting, and probably really interesting in six months.

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