Some aspects of our collective culture will be changed forever. One public service that may never be the same is the commuter railways that have carried office workers from their suburban homes to their downtown workplaces for more than century.
Responding to the social distancing imperatives required by public health concerns, office workers and their employers exploited the latest commerically available tools for telecommunication to establish a new mode of "Working From Home". WFH turned out to be big success that will likely endure long after the other painful memories of the pandemic eventually fade.
Work from Home will likely change urban travel forever with dramatic effects on peak demand for commuter rail transit service to the urban core. Click here for more thoughts on this transformative change.
