There have been lots of comments in several virus related threads hypothesising that the railways will see a significant drop in passenger demand in the medium to long term when the travel restrictions are withdrawn.
I’m genuinely interested to see whether that will be the case or not. Personally, I don’t think there will be.
So, the question is, when “this is all over”, ie when the stay at home / social distancing advice is officially withdrawn in full, do you plan to use the railways any differently than prior to the virus? This is an individual question for you, not what you think others might do. Please think about the real journeys you made up until last month, and whether you will still make similar journeys when we are in the sunny uplands of a healthy country. Assume the restrictions are off no later than September this year.
I’m genuinely interested to see whether that will be the case or not. Personally, I don’t think there will be.
So, the question is, when “this is all over”, ie when the stay at home / social distancing advice is officially withdrawn in full, do you plan to use the railways any differently than prior to the virus? This is an individual question for you, not what you think others might do. Please think about the real journeys you made up until last month, and whether you will still make similar journeys when we are in the sunny uplands of a healthy country. Assume the restrictions are off no later than September this year.