That would have relatively little impact because of the very dense amount of residential housing in almost every borough of New York City except much of Staten Island.
That would have relatively little impact because of the very dense amount of residential housing in almost every borough of New York City
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Wrong-o.
It would have halted traffic by...oh, probably at least half. No one can ‘safe distance’ on a NYC subway. Heck, not even on the platform, in most cases.
With less traffic coming IN to the city, less chance of being pushed about on NYC sidewalks/stores/etc. Just look at their streets in the past week. Imagine if that had started two weeks ago.
Surfaces on subways can hold the virus for up to DAYS (plastics/stainless steel).
Far Rockaway is hardly densely populated.
The high Queens numbers are because of all the people who don’t need to live in a “cool” place but need to get to work on the subway.