Among the listings of daily horoscopes for today - perhaps Monday is a busy horoscope day - is this headline from country94.ca - Late Bus - Bus 545 serving the Saint John area, is 90 minutes late. Nothing else. There isn't a 545 route. It has to be the number of a specific bus. I wonder where it is located in its lateness. The headline reads like Bus 545 is a very badly behaved bus.
Bloomberg news says that transit travel seems safe in Japan and France with no COVID cases identified there. The Globe and Mail says: "Populous Asian cities may offer positive news. In Hong Kong, where ridership fell less than elsewhere, total cases in the city remained relatively low. It was the same story in Tokyo and Seoul. That suggests riders on some of the world’s busiest transit systems did not propel the spread of virus. It makes sense, since riders were masked and unlike locations such as bars, nobody’s there to socialize."
Here in Ontario there is lots of day to day transit COVID news. School bus routes have been cancelled across Ontario with driver shortages. It turns out about 60 per cent of bus drives are over 60 and are at risk.
In Toronto, transit users, students and parents gathered on Saturday with a cardboard COVID-19 East bus to demand transit funding to increase bus service in Scarborough. They were demonstrating to fix the TTC overcrowding.
Back in May, there was a flurry of predictions on the future of public transit post-COVID. Now public transit services have adjusted routes and vehicles. There's a wait and see if the COVID cases go up with back to work and back to school activities. The Globe and Mail update on what's ahead for mass transit in Canada is HERE.
Our picture today shows some of the figures for model railroad layouts. These are very little people.
