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The year 2020 will go down as historic for a lot of reasons. Less traffic on our roads was one of them.
The COVID-19 pandemic shattered the norms of how we move as a society on a day-to-day basis. Fewer cars in use led to declines in congestion and improvements in air quality, two things that we clearly have been â and should be â striving for.
âThe longtime goals of reducing the number of cars on the roads and unacceptable levels of air pollution [were] achieved in a few weeks,â said Claudia Adriazola-Steil, director of health and road safety at the World Resources Instituteâs Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, in a June 2020 New York Times report. âYou can see the Himalayan blue skies for the first time in 25 years.â
Will San Francisco, New York and other big cities recover from COVID-19? What a post-vaccine city could look like Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, what will US cities look like in a post-pandemic world?
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SAN FRANCISCO Rory Cox shudders each time he steps outside the doors of his YuBalance fitness studio.
“It’s a damn ghost town,” said Cox, 37, whose three studios have seen an 80% decline in business since the novel coronavirus hit in March. “My number one marketing tool is people walking by. If they’re not out there, you lose.”
Cox, like many of those he represents as founder of the San Francisco Small Business Alliance, loves this iconic and iconoclastic city, a place where tech start-ups have brought both great riches and staggering inequality.