What is the future of city centres and CBDs, and how will cities adapt? They were designed for a massive inflow of people in the morning and leaving in the evening," said Chintan Raveshia, cities planning and design leader at consultancy Arup. In the City of London, public transport use was down 71% from pre-COVID levels, according to Google Mobility Report's data as of mid-December. In Sydney, public transport use was down by about a third, while in New Delhi it was down 43%, the data showed. "There may be fewer workers in cities because some will continue to work from home, further reducing public transport demand," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Source: bd News24 December 30, 2020 06:00 UTC