But with Covid-19, most who can are now working from home. The train ridership is down tons.
I have no idea how the City is supposed to pay for all of this. My guess is many will continue to work from home even after this pandemic is over.
The whole Light Rail Project is turning into a giant fiasco/ waste of money.
And in my city, if you arenāt in the delivery business or food business, youāve probably lost your shirt.
Tons of small businesses are getting destroyed by this pandemic.
I prefer working at home if possible. No need to waste time or gas in transportation, you have food at home, its more relax, etc
Probably correct. My company currently has a bit of an issue in that a lot of people were given permission to work from home over the past year and now weāre a bit short in branches for walk-in traffic. I was politely approached to see if Iād be interested in working from a branch and I made it clear theyād have my resignation if they tried. Iām hard enough to replace that they wonāt force it, but I feel for the newer personal lines staff whoāll be pushed back into a workplace.
I think that those who can work from home and who have had a taste of it will stay there. The exception being the extroverts who like being in an office bothering other people. Avoiding them is a big part of why I wonāt work in an office ever again - extroverts are productivity destroyers for everyone else.
Thereās a push over here to get people back into the cities simply for economic reasons. Lots of closed shops and bars in the city so thereās this desire to get people back. Whilst this covid sticks around and the slowness of the vaccinations I think itās going to take a heck of a lot longer and maybe never back to what it was.
Itās not happening in my industry. A lot of the insurance company underwriters I deal with prefer working from home and it sounds like the companies have realized they can reduce their office footprints, save on rent, etc. Other large white collar employers are going to come to the same realization. Yeah, some traffic will return to city cores, but not like theyāre hoping.
I work for a brokerage and we have a retail component, so we still need bodies serving customers in person. When it comes to insurance companies, they work 90% by email and 8% by phone and 2% by fax. No F2F needed except for super large clients (weāre talking policies worth millions).
Yeah hearing that. I know the push is from government at local and state level for sure but as you sayā¦lots of people gettting more productive from home. Just makes sense to cut out your leasing. I honestly donāt think weāll get back to pre covid times. Itās changed the world regardless and especially how we do business moving forward.
Thatās kind of the norm for high speed rail to go bust like that.
Do you remember the āmono-railā episode from the Simpsons?
$3b is a big chunk to swallow too
Whoever thought that deal through should be elected out of office
There are so many people out of work across our country that politicians are desperate for any sort of shovel-ready project that the less skilled can work at. What we need are more practical things like upgrading aging sewer and water systems and upgrading an outdated electrical grid to handle things like solar flares better and more electric vehicles, but there arenāt enough skilled workers for those types of infrastructure projects. So they throw āstimulusā money at dumb projects that can be done by the dumber workers. (Somebody had to say this.)
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