Peak Hour: How Corona will change TRAVEL IN CITIES

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How will transport in cities change after the COVID wave subsides? Will financial worries make high-frequency public transport a thing of the past, just when we need it most? And will we even WANT to live in cities any more? Jonn Elledge of urban nerdery site CityMetric talks to Ros Taylor about the future of trains, buses and bikes… and why we might have missed the COVID opportunity to rethink transport. “Uber isn’t even good for Uber drivers. The company clearly wants to phase them out.” “The Government is going to have to subsidise London’s transport again. If it doesn’t the city will grind to a halt.” “If London life no longer exists as it once did, what’s the point of spending a fortune to live there?” “I do worry that anything we were going to do about traffic, the moment has now passed.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.9	docklands Light Railway on my bedroom was a teenager because back then the London Transport
1:20.3	Network was just a wonderful dream. So I'm very pleased to be welcoming
1:24.6	John Elage, new statesman columnist and founder of City Metric, the website about
1:29.1	planning, designing, managing, and living in cities. He's an expert on all things city and transport related.
1:35.1	Hello John. Hello how you doing? I'm very well yeah. Which bit of which city are you
1:41.0	in at the moment and how are things there?
1:43.2	I am currently in London's fashionable East End district.
1:47.4	Very, very on-brand of me. I live next to a railway junction. So if there's any sort of groaning noise in the background please be
1:53.8	reassured that's a train going past not something horrible happening.
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