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How COVID-19 could remake transit and transportation networks

Author
Toronto Star
Published
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Episode Link
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thismatters/Covid19Transit-AC.mp3

The way people move around and commute in cities has changed, perhaps forever. Is the time of COVID-19 actually the perfect moment to remake the transit and transportation networks in cities? Some say the countries that are preparing to make the streets more accessible, post-pandemic, are the places that are built to grow and succeed, not merely recover from it. Adrian Cheung talks to Ben Spurr, Toronto Star’s transportation reporter, on what Toronto and other major, dense cities are doing to adapt to big changes in transportation networks, and the very nature of how a society lives and moves in a city.

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