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I drove to the office today.
Coming back took me 56 minutes. It was a 35 minutes journey before COVID-19.
Many small roads around North London are now closed to private cars traffic (cyclists and busses only), making the route longer, and more congested because everyone is now being funnelled into the few remaining routes.
To be clear, I am in favour of closing city centers to private cars (in spite of the personal inconvenience this involves for me).
But people arent even back into their offices yet, and traffic is already impossible.... any talk of workers coming back to their offices in London is totally disconnected from reality.
Public transport in London was running at well over capacity before COVID-19, there's no way that ex-car drivers and ex-Uber users can get to work on public transport if we were all to go back to our offices.
In short... not complaining about the road closures, but decision makers should face reality.... we're never going to go back to our offices in the same way that we did pre-COVID-19. There's simply no way we can all get there now....
Coming back took me 56 minutes. It was a 35 minutes journey before COVID-19.
Many small roads around North London are now closed to private cars traffic (cyclists and busses only), making the route longer, and more congested because everyone is now being funnelled into the few remaining routes.
To be clear, I am in favour of closing city centers to private cars (in spite of the personal inconvenience this involves for me).
But people arent even back into their offices yet, and traffic is already impossible.... any talk of workers coming back to their offices in London is totally disconnected from reality.
Public transport in London was running at well over capacity before COVID-19, there's no way that ex-car drivers and ex-Uber users can get to work on public transport if we were all to go back to our offices.
In short... not complaining about the road closures, but decision makers should face reality.... we're never going to go back to our offices in the same way that we did pre-COVID-19. There's simply no way we can all get there now....