In the Rishon LeZion found an original solution to the spread of the virus: walking on one side and traveling direction • "New life habits must be developed"

• Residents walking in Tel Aviv promenade // Photo: Coco

Local initiative to fight the Corona virus: Rishon Lezion Mayor Raz Kinstlich came out this morning (Wednesday), calling on city residents who want to take to the street for essential work, a supermarket or for medical treatment - plan the march ahead and make sure to walk on the right sidewalk, with the direction of movement of the vehicles.

Photo by the Rashal Security Society

Walking this way, the municipality hopes, will further mitigate the danger of contagion in Corona as people will not pass and breathe each other.

This is a model that is already used in large and crowded cities around the world, even before the "Corona Period", such as in central Manhattan, where pedestrians walk most of the streets on the sidewalk with the direction of travel.

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"We have to develop new life habits for this time to minimize the chance of getting infected or infected. Walking on one side will reduce the density of pedestrians in the public space by tens of percent, reducing the chance of the spread of the virus if we are all just marching along and not passing one another, "says Mayor Raz Kinstich.

And what about the seaside promenade? In the Rishon Lezion municipality they want to march from the south to the north of the promenade, which means that the march will be towards Bat Yam. The return will be a walk on the first sidewalk that delimits the beach parking lots.

The municipality emphasizes that this is not a mandatory directive and will not be enforced, but a request to assist in a more effective and correct response to the Corona virus.