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I would be interested to see a map of public infrastructure investment over time (such as public transport; amenities for sports, leisure, and recreation; conve

by angled 6y ago

I would be interested to see a map of public infrastructure investment over time (such as public transport; amenities for sports, leisure, and recreation; convenience shops; zoning for increasing housing density) overlaid with the rise and fall of COVID-19. My gut feeling is that the density the environment, and the proximity to these facilities, is inversely proportional to the growth rate and total number of infections.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
I'm not sure if I'm correctly parsing what you wrote, but at least where I live, COVID-19 managed in couple of days to revert years of effort to make the city car-sparse. The unfortunate truth is that public transport is the last thing you want to use in the middle of a pandemic.
- giantDinosaur 6y ago
  What about bicycles? They're an excellent thing to promote in a lot of places, and can help a lot with reducing car use for short-medium trips. Also, truthfully I'm not sure PT has much of an impact on the pandemic - some of the worst hit countries have notoriously bad/non-existent PT, whereas others with world-class PT have very much controlled the disease.
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    I'll have to look into per-city stats around the world, but around me, the city with good PT managed the pandemic quite well by cutting PT capacity in half (and demanding masks on), removing parking restrictions, and doing various other things to incentivize people to start using their cars again.
    - giantDinosaur 6y ago
      How depressing for the post-pandemic world.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    Bikes are great for able-bodied young people without babies, who live in flat cities with moderate weather.
    - giantDinosaur 6y ago
      We can argue about how 'flat' most cities are or are not (most cities have very large areas which are flat), but given that, anyone can ride bicycles. Have you been to the Netherlands? I've very rarely been in a city that couldn't have massive cycling improvements across most of its area. Other forms of transit can make up the gaps. I completely reject your 'able-bodied young people' comment as a reasonable assumption about how accessible cycling is.

by angled 6y ago

TeMPOraL 6y ago

I'm not sure if I'm correctly parsing what you wrote, but at least where I live, COVID-19 managed in couple of days to revert years of effort to make the city car-sparse. The unfortunate truth is that public transport is the last thing you want to use in the middle of a pandemic.

giantDinosaur 6y ago
What about bicycles? They're an excellent thing to promote in a lot of places, and can help a lot with reducing car use for short-medium trips. Also, truthfully I'm not sure PT has much of an impact on the pandemic - some of the worst hit countries have notoriously bad/non-existent PT, whereas others with world-class PT have very much controlled the disease.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  I'll have to look into per-city stats around the world, but around me, the city with good PT managed the pandemic quite well by cutting PT capacity in half (and demanding masks on), removing parking restrictions, and doing various other things to incentivize people to start using their cars again.
  - giantDinosaur 6y ago
    How depressing for the post-pandemic world.
- klyrs 6y ago
  Bikes are great for able-bodied young people without babies, who live in flat cities with moderate weather.
  - giantDinosaur 6y ago
    We can argue about how 'flat' most cities are or are not (most cities have very large areas which are flat), but given that, anyone can ride bicycles. Have you been to the Netherlands? I've very rarely been in a city that couldn't have massive cycling improvements across most of its area. Other forms of transit can make up the gaps. I completely reject your 'able-bodied young people' comment as a reasonable assumption about how accessible cycling is.