@kentparkstreet1 To me, this looks like one of those things that the government should be doing all along. Doing it now shows they _can_ do it. So, why wait for a severe situation? And, why flag it as only temporary? They know they can make it the norm.

Earlier in the COVID pandemic, we saw a bunch of other "emergency" measures that were temporary, and have mostly been wound-back, but could and should be permanent, such as:
- Work from home no questions asked, and no forced days in the office.
- Staying out of the office or public gatherings if you're sick and going to make other people sick.
- Government payments to unemployed people doubled, so people out of work had a more livable income near the poverty-line instead of drowning in debt and being forced to go without essentials.

To get back to free public transport being permanent — it would have beneficial improvements to quality of life, such as:
- Cutting air-pollution from vehicle emissions.
- Reducing road noise in residential areas.
- Sparing drivers/cyclists/pedestrians from injuries/deaths from motor vehicle crashes.
- Shashing the political power of the motoring lobby.
- Educating people about it's bizarre that we "need" to waste so much usable land on carparks.
- Improvements to non-car transport infrastructure such as buses, trains, and cycling lanes.
- Fixing the social snobbery and political divide that puts a wedge between public transport commuters and car commuters.