Transportation
Europe’s Cities Are Making Less Room for Cars After Coronavirus
Hard-hit Milan may be leading the way in reimagining how transit and commuting patterns could change as cities emerge from coronavirus shutdowns.
How will cities carefully emerge from their coronavirus quarantines once lockdown measures are relaxed? That question might seem premature in the U.S., but in places where the virus struck earlier, cities are working out strategies for a return to something approaching normal urban life.
Italy appears to have passed its mortality peak — at least for Covid-19’s first wave — and now leaders in Milan and other major urban centers are looking at how people might resume working, socializing and leaving their homes even as coronavirus still remains active. Their answers could well provide an international blueprint for reopened cities.