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In many American cities, fear of a “deadly spiral” of public transportation. Families reject full college tuition fees for online education. The United States has noticed a downward trend in the number of coronavirus tests performed per day for the first time.
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South Korea reported 166 new cases of coronavirus, the highest number in the country since March.
While transit budgets in U.S. cities. They have been affected by the pandemic, passengers have endured long waits on reduced service and then boarded overcrowded trains or buses, raising fears of coronavirus exposure.
Transit leaders across the country have issued terrible warnings to Congress, saying the $25 billion in aid they won in March is disappearing. And without further help, they say, their systems will face a fatal spiral, in which service cuts will make public transport less convenient for the public, resulting in an additional decrease in the number of passengers that will result in greater loss of profits and more outages.
But Congress has shown little sign that it will soon adopt a stimulus package or that such an agreement would come with one of the $32 billion in new aid that transit experts consider necessary.
“It turns out we’re invisible and they don’t care,” said Nina Red, a New Orleans resident who said her bus ride to the grocery store took about 3 hours instead of the same time as usual.
Attendance for primary urban networks declined by 70-90% during the pandemic, and sales tax revenues, which fuel the budgets of many transport companies, have been reduced due to the collapse of the economy.
As a result, cities like San Francisco have halved their bus routes. In New Orleans, where 14% of traffic tested positive for the virus, rate revenue fell by 45%.
And while service cuts have begun, experts say most of the challenge lies with the country’s low-income residents, other people of color, and workers. Two economic studies have shown that blacks can die at a rate about twice as much as white coronavirus, partly due to their increased dependence on public transport.
Experts say the increased ability of high-income staff to paint remotely or use cars highlights some other systemic inequality that has become an obvious pandemic.
“People with enough cash can decide to retire for a while,” said Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, a advocacy group. “It’s a luxury.”
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