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The parking lots at Port Washington are plains of empty asphalt. Office workers no longer dash — they Zoom. Without more aid from Congress, Mr Foye may furlough 8, employees, eliminate billions of dollars of planned capital spending and gut service on New York subways, buses and railways, including the LIRR. Yet an even more ominous prospect looms in the longer term: after Covid, what happens if some passengers never come back? The pandemic is setting in motion structural changes in how employees do their jobs with profound implications The Rise Of Mass Transit urban settlement, transport networks and energy use.

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Journeying to work five days a week now seems excessive in an age of video conferencing and cloud data. In future, 85 per cent of employees would prefer to work remotely at least two to three days a week, according to a survey by CBRE, the commercial real estate services company.

Such a scenario could seriously weaken the finances of public transit systems that underpin great cities.

No other mode of transport can efficiently deliver millions of workers into dense central business districts. With fewer riders and fares, transit operators face an unpleasant choice: trimming service, which repels customers, or going cap in hand to the government for more subsidies.

Mr Foye still hopes Risee stave off an immediate funding crisis with federal coronavirus aid. But he is also pondering how he would respond to lasting changes in commuting habits. Passenger numbers collapsed when authorities declared lockdowns in the spring, keeping all but essential workers home.

After partially reopening in the summer, New York City is placing more limits on social gatherings and restaurants to keep a lid on climbing coronavirus cases. Initial research suggested that transit seeded the disease, spreading it through city arteries.]