California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 7:21 AM UTC

chrisweekly wrote: post #140

watwut wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, there is not. When the circumstances change, habits change too. When people go back to work, they will have less time at their hands. They will have to adjust to commuting again, taking kids to/from school again, being somewhere at time again. All of that will cut into their exercise time. All the people who are exercising out of boredom now will stop exercising out of being tired of doing lot of things again.

It's far from given that a return to pre-outbreak commuting patterns will be the norm.

Post by jobigoud » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #192

downerending wrote: post #167

If we forbid all operations, a lot fewer people will die in surgery.

I remember Atul Gawande mentioning in one of his books that patient deaths slow when their surgeons take a holiday.

Post by zachkatz » Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 2:55 AM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #171

zachkatz wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except Los Angeles is actually a pre-car city, and at one point had the biggest streetcar network in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway With investment in public transit (i.e. approximately rebuilding the original streetcar network and building out the existing Metro system) and a high-quality protected bike lane network, LA could be truly amazing.

It had the highest per-capita car registration in the world at the same time, though.