LONDON - More commuters should consider cycling or walking when Britain’s coronavirus lockdown is eased to take the pressure off public transport capacity that is likely to drop by 90% under social distancing requirements, Transport Minister Grant Shapps said on Saturday.
He urged people to continue to work from home where possible, but said those who did have to commute to work should consider cycling or walking rather than using their cars. “Even with public transport reverting to a full service, once you take into account the two-metre social distancing rule, there would only be effective capacity for one in 10 passengers in many parts of our network, just a tenth of the old capacity,” said Shapps.
“Whilst it’s crucial that we stay at home, when the country does get back to work we need to ask those people to carry on walking and cycling and for them to be joined by many others as well,” he said.
Tory shite again. Suppose it must be so difficult for an MP whose got a flat in Westminster next to where they work, which the UK taxpayer pays for. They’re just like you and me ....NOT
I tried introducing skipping into the workplace during the 1990s, it didn’t work, I would suggest now a Mary Poppins use of aerial umbrella as a viable commuter form of travel
Why? 🤔
Like 1970's China ?
One should skip to work
This makes zero sense to me. I’m assuming he means public transportation? I mean... my car is my safe space! This headline and what he’s saying don’t match up.
TransportKE ntsa_kenya Ke_NaMATA should take this dimension
Fine if you live near work but not otherwise. But it’s too soon to ease lockdown - read why
Wrong! If you even bother to listen to the clip. Cycle/walk if possible rather than PUBLIC TRANSPORT (bus/train). Reuters cant even listen to its own clip.
If you listen to the statement, it doesn't mention 'rather than using cars', Reuters. It says walk or cycle rather than using PUBLIC TRANSPORT. He's talking about PT's capacity reduced by 90% bc of 2m rule. That makes sense I suppose. Commuters with long journeys? Rain?
In that filthy weather ?
Can we take their nukes before the collapse
This doesn’t make any sense. 🤦🏼♀️
So streets will be full..and when they all stop at the red light together, they can sneeze at each other..really clever. covid exitstrategy
I'd usually be in favour of that but people won't walk or cycle but get the bus so you're gonna, unfortunately, see MORE car use. I mostly only leave the house to go to a hospital doctor or a chemist so haven't had a car in yrs but bought one today, I'd die of cv19 so no more bus
The Brits are so right on.
Thats all well.and good if you have just one place of work and do not require to carry anything more than your lunch Those that require to be mobile or carry tools and matterials do not have that luxury and with out provision for these people cities would stop functioning
Try to walk from Dagheman East to Canning Town...bs
and urged you to use Huawei too. CCPChina
is coorect , cars or buses are great places of contagion, I say this because people being with the virus without realizing it can infect thousands in a closed area
If it's a Tory idea then it's because of some screw up like the oil reserves are running low
Can someone explain me ? I saw the study on how transmissive it can be to walk, run or cycle behind another person exhaling, but isn't a car safier in the droplet diffusion for others ?
Why? If they're in their personal car what health hazards could they possibly be exposed to? endthelockdown
For once good sense
e-moped for me already.
از اسیری کورونا در اومدید با پا یا دوچرخه برید سرکار!
What instead of isolating urself in a secure container with no access to anyone else, travelling from A 2 B as quickly & SAFELY as possible, all the while observing SOCIAL DISTANCING from public and public from u...? did I understand that right?
This has happened before but our people of today are lazy.
Spanish flu 😷 remedies repeating itself.
Good grief, I'm fine, read his name as Giant Schnapps, truthfully, what could I be thinking!
EXCEPT don't forget get an ambulance to hospital if you get the virus .
I would love to walk to work but it would take me 2 hours and i don’t know how to ride a bike!
You'll get a nice wave wave from him in his ministerial car.
If you can't even enjoy the Underground London is over.
He’s dreaming if he thinks majority ppl live that close to work
London to Brighton cycle ride to be renamed 'Brighton to London and back' and held daily.
Misshapp by name...
Makes sense.
Why is his shape?
LOL, they'll get in the car. They'll all have the super bright idea to leave early and get stuck in gridlocked traffic from London to Inverness. And it'll all be someone else's fault.
they can dream about it.
That'll work great, mid-winter... Just jump on your little bike in -10 degrees, with 2 feet of snow, you'll be fine. lol
Sounds miserable in the rain.
That's because their cars quarantine I guess now
Get off your ass it’s good 4 u
That's not 2m on that poster - I can tell that from here 🤣😷🤦♀️
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It's OK for the 4 or 5 weeks of decent weather we get each year in Scotland - for the rest of the time it's wet and windy 🤷♂️
Looking forward to my 75 mile round trip each day👍.
Good luck in bad weather and where are all the bikes going to be stored during the day? 10 Costa coffee staff bikes behind the counter, along with cycle Lycra and helmets.
Not really an option when the round trip is 100 km plus
DWP be prepared BorisJohnson & his bright Conservatives idiots are sending many 0000s more to your door ? know many won't be doing the 3/4 mile early morning shite for any PM
What a fucking nightmare.
That's not so bad. Our ancestors did it all the time.
Sorry, but I'm not walking thirty miles to work and back every day.
STAY HOME STAY SAFE!!!!
And how many live near where they work? Will all government ministers be cycling or walking to work?! As if!! onerule
Reuters doing clickbait....whod'a thunk it...
Okay when weather is fine but those who travel 20+miles on a BoJoPed? Get real
Certainly won’t be me at a round trip commute of nearly 40 miles with no reasonable public transport in my area. These ‘rules’ will be broken instantly. Or this government had better start thinking about a global salary for all.
Cool yeah it'd only take me 8 hours to walk to work.
As someone who has always walked to work even when I lived 5 km away or more I feel this will impact me the most. I don't want to share my empty pavement with mouth breathing shuffle pigs.
From the commuter belts 😂
👨🦱🍉
Forced exercise is rape. It’s my lawful right to be a fat fuck and ride public transit
Guess an increase in cases is a perfect reason to open up. The second wave is 100% going to happen in fact... It probably already is...
Whose cycling me to work because I work 23 miles away from home. Won't be fucking me.
Guy with watermelon is swag
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