👉The New Normal: Public Transport 🚌🚎🚈🚋 in a #COVID19 world. Collecting guidelines, case studies, campaigns – an incomplete thread, feel free to join the debate. Thread ⬇️.
7/x: @MTA: New feature helps empower riders to help minimize crowding and promote social distancing through real-time information: masstransitmag.com/technology/mis…
17-2/x: If you (as public transport geek) are interested in thosw new pop-up bike lanes (which are occassionally interfering with PT), follow this thread:
19/x: Ontario: As a condition of the COVID-19 bailout, Ontario asks TTC and others to consider private ‘microtransit’ in place of lightly used bus routes - (microtransit - a new euphemism?) fr24news.com/a/2020/08/as-a…
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✅Staggering of start and finish times at schools
✅Walking and cycling
✅More buses and dedicated school services
👉Measures aimed to relieve public transport in London 🇬🇧 during #COVID19. More about @TfL plans for a safe return to classrooms: tfl.gov.uk/reopeningeduca…
31/x: via @CCRECEMR: Here's the case of Valencia’s public transport company that has launched a mobile ticketing app to enable cashless & contactless bus travel.
35/x: Qatar public transport resumes at 30% capacity as of Tues. Sept. 1 as Phase 4 of gradual lifting of COVID-19 curbs on public transit system begins.
38/x: WATCH: FTA's third #COVID19 Recovery Listening Session focused on how transit agencies support the health & #safety of #transit workers during COVID-19 recovery efforts. Missed it? See the presentation & recording: bit.ly/3hkaozc.
43/x How much of an impact has COVID-19 had on public transport? How can we design mass transit services to make them better? @NewsfromTRL CEO Paul Campion shares his thoughts in his latest blog post
49/x: APTA, Public Transportation Industry Unveil Nationwide “Health and Safety Commitments” Program
Over 100 public transit agencies have already signed on to the program @APTA_Transit apta.com/news-publicati…
53/x: @CUTRIC_CRITUC Five-Point Plan to Build Back Better Transit that will make Canada’s public transit systems cleaner, more efficient, and more inclusive.
54/x: NJ Transit's mobile app now asks passengers to grade how crowded they think their trains or buses are as a way to reduce potential COVID-19 exposure @NJTRANSIT@State_Scoop
55/x: The City of Edmonton will be going digital to offer low-income transit passes in response to the limiting of in-person sales due to COVID-19 facility closure @edmontonjournal
Digitization & private sector engagement will be key to the success of public transport electrification project. 🔋
👉Check out the world’s first E-bus Accelerator Program ‘The Better eBus Challenge 2022’ implemented by @WRICitiesIndia. #eBusMission#esawaari
There is no better time than #COP26 to look at the climate, cities, mobility and #naturebasedsolutions nexus – collecting thoughts, ideas and examples. Feel free to discuss and add (🧵⏬🌳) 1/n
•Livable cities
•Less CO2
•Safe and convenient mobility
•Good air quality
•Ambient temperatures
•Healthy and beautiful places
•Attractive public spaces
•Resilient infrastructure
•...
#COP26 To avert climate change and limit warming to 1.5°C we need to reduce carbon emissions from transport - in fact transport is the problem child of carbon emissions. In many countries transport emissions are rising while all other emissions are falling H/T @SLOCATOfficial 2/n
#COP26 Cycling 🚲 is (almost) zero emission already, together with walking 🚶♀️🚶♂️ and public transport 🚋 it can be a great contributor to lower carbon emissions . 3/n
H/T @LHInnovationHub