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New York MTA is battling COVID-19 with UV lights and infrared sensors:
New York City may be opening back up for business, but that doesn't mean everybody's ready to hop aboard its trains and buses yet. While daily ridership on subways and buses is up 380,000 compared with the period before the June 8 reopening date, that's still a fraction of the millions of riders who commuted in the pre-pandemic days.
[...] Last month, the MTA began shutting down the subway system between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.daily -- the first time it's ever done so -- to disinfect the cars. Foye made the point that it wasn't simply a cleaning, but actually disinfecting the cars, and noted it happens twice a day.
At the same time, the agency launched a $1 million pilot program to use ultraviolet light to sterilize its cars. The MTA plans to deploy 150 mobile devices at stations and rail yards to test the effectiveness of UV, and Foye said that the early research conducted by Columbia University has been promising.
Meanwhile, cycling naturally enforces distance, is faster, and costs nothing.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Saturday June 20 2020, @03:18PM (2 children)
Is it? I have lived and biked in NYC for 20+ years. it is the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to get around the city. I live in brooklyn and have commuted to manhattan, downtown, midtown, and uptown. I regularly ride all the way up into westchester and out to long island, sometimes to far rockaway, queens. all those routes mix onstreet, shared lanes, and protected bike paths. I prefer protected paths, but shared lanes aren't the horror you think they are.
Also, given your attitude about cycling infrastructure capacity it seems you don't have much experience as a bike commuter, because when youare commuting the more cyclists are around you, the safer you are. as far as bike parking goes, many of the cyclists in NYC use foldable bikes they can pop into a bike bag and park at their cubicle. I have a full-sized folding mountain bike from Dahon that fits into a bike bag I can sling over my shoulder. I worked in high security buildings and it's never been a problem.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @03:51PM (1 child)
So at what point did you move north of NYC to that small town?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday June 21 2020, @06:05PM
North of NYC Is westchester county, which has high property taxes we don't feel like paying. we have never lived anywhere north of NYC. Brooklyn only.
are you mentally impaired that you continue to insist I live where I don't live?
Washington DC delenda est.