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Coronavirus: the puzzle of social distancing in transport

2020-04-29T18:50:42.253Z


Companies are striving to find solutions to maintain the distance of one meter between each passenger. A huge challenge that is all a gamble.


Unable to raise the bar higher to protect travelers during the deconfinement planned from May 11. The government imposes a double penalty on public transport operators: ensuring that passengers wear masks and social distancing. A cumulative obligation that France is the only European country to retain out of containment, with Italy.

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A very demanding choice of which the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, specified the consequences in the Parisian metro: "It will be necessary to condemn one seat out of two." In reality, the capacity of public transport will be much reduced if we take into account people who traveled standing on commuter trains, metros, trams or buses. "In a bus that can usually accommodate 100 people, there can only be 20," says Le Figaro Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France region. A drastic reduction in supply which should apply even in metropolitan areas

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Source: lefigaro

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