Peak Hour: How Corona will change TRAVEL IN CITIES

How will transport in cities change after the COVID wave subsides? Will financial worries make high-frequency public transport a thing of the past, just when we need it most? And will we even WANT to live in cities any more? Jonn Elledge of urban nerdery site CityMetric talks to Ros Taylor about the future of trains, buses and bikes… and why we might have missed the COVID opportunity to rethink transport. 

• “Uber isn’t even good for Uber drivers. The company clearly wants to phase them out.” 
• “The Government is going to have to subsidise London’s transport again. If it doesn’t the city will grind to a halt.”
• “If London life no longer exists as it once did, what’s the point of spending a fortune to live there?” 
• “I do worry that anything we were going to do about traffic, the moment has now passed.” 

Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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