Nearly a million Bay Area workers switched to working from home. Commute times dropped by 10 minutes or more. Commuter trains are less than half as crowded as they used to be. But beware: There are…
Nearly a million Bay Area workers switched to working from home. Commute times dropped by 10 minutes or more in many portions of the Bay Area. Our commuter trains are less than half as crowded as they used to be. But beware: There are signs the congestion on our freeways is creeping back, just at different times and certain days of the week when many of us do choose to head into the office.
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute, an economic policy think tank, has consistently found that the number of employers who require workers to be in the office 5 days a week or more has hovered around 25% since 2021, according to one of the institute’s research managers Abby Raisz. Olivia Atkinson of Oakland is one of the commuters who gave up on BART and started driving into work. Atkinson, who now works as a private courier delivering optical products like eyeglasses and California lottery tickets in the Hayward area, decided to stop taking BART in large part because the COVID-19 pandemic opened her eyes to how gross riding BART could be.
But experts warn that if commuters continue to abandon public transit en masse, or if services are cut, it could very well make traffic a whole lot worse in the areas where the use of rail alternatives is common, like in the East Bay.Remote workers may not care if morning commutes get longer, since they can just roll out of bed and call into their Zoom meetings.
“The Latino population is much younger than any other racial group,” Raisz said. And young workers, “they’re going off to get your typical service worker job… that would not allow you to be remote in any way.”
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