Not wanting to be a merchant of doom and gloom, I'd be interested to hear from drivers on how they perceive Covid will/could impact upon the railways (from a drivers perspective).
I think that it's naive to believe that passenger traffic will return to pre-pandenmic levels any time soon (if ever), and the five day office based working pattern, I believe will not return, rather a mix. Clearly this would also have a negative impact on passenger levels.
This is all conjecture and everyone will have their own opinions on this.
I'd like to focus what if passenger levels remain low what could the ramifications be? Fewer services, fewer drivers? Likelihood of redundancies? Aslef and their role if redundancies were muted? etc etc.
Many thanks.
I think that it's naive to believe that passenger traffic will return to pre-pandenmic levels any time soon (if ever), and the five day office based working pattern, I believe will not return, rather a mix. Clearly this would also have a negative impact on passenger levels.
This is all conjecture and everyone will have their own opinions on this.
I'd like to focus what if passenger levels remain low what could the ramifications be? Fewer services, fewer drivers? Likelihood of redundancies? Aslef and their role if redundancies were muted? etc etc.
Many thanks.
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