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The question really is what the primary purpose of this traffic is at this point. It surely can't all be people driving to the Peak District to unnecessarily walk their dogs. I don't know.
There are 1.5million of us working for the NHS alone. Anecdotally, a lot of colleagues have started driving to work, as our new shift patterns make it a little challenging to guarantee being able to get home for many.
Extrapolating that to the many other frankly incredible people working to keep Public transport going, waste and energy management, water services, the police, fire departments...
I suspect there may be a logical reason for the uptick.Again- anecdotally- the roads around the outside of Regent's were pretty full of parked cars, and the park itself was pretty hectic.
Most cyclists were trying to keep a distance, but some were still riding in bunches.
Extrapolating this- people are cunts.
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Anecdotally, a lot of colleagues have started driving to work, as our new shift patterns make it a little challenging to guarantee being able to get home for many.
Yeah, that might account for part of the extra traffic. Which shows the issue - as long as we know nothing about the reasons behind things, it's pretty hard to get any conclusions from them.
SwissChap
Most definitely. Let's remember how many people there are in the UK who do almost fuck all in terms of anything one could call exercise. They haven't all suddenly started jogging and cycling.
The question really is what the primary purpose of this traffic is at this point. It surely can't all be people driving to the Peak District to unnecessarily walk their dogs. I don't know.
I still think the fact that there hasn't been a particularly high amount of pressure on businesses to scale down operations and enforce social distancing at work beyond the ones that have physical contact with a client is going to prove to have been a much bigger issue, both due to spread at work, and spread on the way to work. Same with the slow implementation of the rules for supermarkets, though it seems the whole 'distanced queueing' and 'one in one out' thing seems to now be generally applied at least.