![]() ![]() The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said the government was asking commuters to be sensible, while admitting he would not get on a tube or bus. “I think if they haven’t got sick by now, they think they’ve got away with it.” People don’t care as much any more,” she said. “People used to queue for the bus socially distanced, or stand to one side on the pavement, but now they don’t move over. ![]() People had also stopped using face masks and gloves on buses and trains. ![]() But since last week her commute had become significantly busier, with less effort to distance, she said. One woman going to work in a laboratory said it had been easy to keep two metres apart from other people for most of the lockdown. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images People on a Victoria line train at Finsbury Park. During the suspension our carriages were heaving. “Social distancing during the peak was a joke. Tube workers also said there was a “complete shambles” during the suspension of part of the Victoria Line after reports that a passenger had collapsed. “If that’s what needs to be to keep people safe then we will stop trains,” he told Sky News.ĭespite an appeal by TfL for passengers to wear face coverings on public transport, it appeared that few were doing so. Mick Cash, the general secretary, said strike action could be necessary to “protect workers and passengers”, adding that staff would be entitled to refuse to work if they did not feel safe. Men have died from coronavirus at twice the rate of women in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.Īs the first lockdown relaxation came into place the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said Boris Johnson’s return to work message was “fraught with danger”. Photos taken at Finsbury Park station on the Victoria line showed commuters – mostly men – standing inches apart in carriage door wells with few wearing masks. ![]()
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