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by sanex 20 days ago
I would occasionally go to the office toward the tail end of covid and traffic was essentially non existent. We were well past the big lockdowns and shuttered restaurants at that point but RTO hadn't kicked in. It wouldn't take much to drastically change the traffic landscape.
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Traffic was lower after COVID because of how many people (who couldn't work remote) lost their jobs, an overall economic downturn affecting logistics chains, and people afraid of public transit. Not because everyone was blissfully working from home. It would indeed take a lot to change traffic (without causing significant economic harm)