TRAVEL IN A NEW WORLD OF COVID-19
More Cars, More Pollution & More New Alternative Vehicles Source: Stock Image of Public Transit Being Cleaned New Travel World from COVID-19 Americans and many others around the world in urban areas are getting behind the wheel to avoid mass transit. The difficulty of social distancing and feeling secure to avoid COVID-19 in crowded trains, buses and planes is driving the return to cars. Polls indicate that American plan to avoid trains and buses as the stay-at-home orders lift. The shift to cars could be a boom for the hard pressed automotive industry. It could also lead to more pollution and traffic jams. New Issues For Mass Transit Ironically, the effort to avoid public transit and take your car in order to protect yourself from COVID-19 is creating new problems. Urban experts believe it could lead to increased road congestion, additional carbon emissions and put a major strain on cash-strapped transit systems. Transit ridership is down 95% in major