You're making the effort. I don't do restaurants, not unless I can take the meal with me once I buy it. None of us at my house do as a rule these days.
Public transit...there's a topic.
A lot of people in Ottawa-Gatineau seem to feel as you do. The buses and trains here are usually, at worst, ¾ empty. Everyone aboard has mostly managed to keep their distance from each other, and masks are standard good-manners practice. I can't afford to not use it if I want to leave my neighbourhood to do anything outside of it.
I keep paying for my monthly bus pass despite my lack of usage because they're a continuing target for deficit hawks, and they need the money to maintain the facilities and fleets for when Pandemic is finally over. Even if the levels of demand-for-service stay reduced afterward, the transit services have to be able to do their work safely.
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branchandroot
Public Transit
Date: 2021-02-21 02:11 pm (UTC)Public transit...there's a topic.
A lot of people in Ottawa-Gatineau seem to feel as you do. The buses and trains here are usually, at worst, ¾ empty. Everyone aboard has mostly managed to keep their distance from each other, and masks are standard good-manners practice. I can't afford to not use it if I want to leave my neighbourhood to do anything outside of it.
I keep paying for my monthly bus pass despite my lack of usage because they're a continuing target for deficit hawks, and they need the money to maintain the facilities and fleets for when Pandemic is finally over. Even if the levels of demand-for-service stay reduced afterward, the transit services have to be able to do their work safely.