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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday June 21 2020, @06:10PM
That's not so. I previously lived in kyushu and only got around by bike. there not only was no bike infrastructure, but most times there weren't even shoulders to the roads, and sidewalks were inaccessible because of pedestrian fencing. Yet biking there was fine.
I will confess that I prefer dedicated bike infrastructure, such as beijing has, but it's not a prerequisite.
Washington DC delenda est.