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Muni expects to lose the majority of its bus lines permanently as financial devastation mounts
... Studies of transit systems around the globe show that, at best, 80% of riders will eventually return, with the rest lost to telecommuting, cars or bicycles amid heightened fears of COVID-19 infection.
That’s the optimistic projection, Rewers said. He presented a worst-case scenario in which social distancing rules severely limit the number of people Muni can carry on each vehicle. In that case, he said, the agency might limp along with fewer than 150,000 riders each weekday, or one-fifth of its pre-pandemic haul. ...
Elsewhere, commuter heavy-rail ridership was down as much as 97 percent in Chicago, "recovered" to "only" 95% as of several weeks ago.
I said early in the pandemic that this was likely a generational change. That may prove an understatement as living, work, travel, cultural, and recreational patterns are upended.
Up to 40 of the bus lines that San Francisco cut at the beginning of the pandemic are not coming back unless the city finds a new revenue spigot, transportation chief Jeffrey Tumlin said this week. Just about every aspect of San Francisco’s transportation future looks grim.
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