(24 Jul 2020, 5:17 pm)streetdeckfan wrote The definition of 'overcrowded' has somewhat changed recently though, before you would say a bus is overcrowded when there's no standing room left, now it's 'overcrowded' when you've hit 50% seated capacity.
That's a pretty big change!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they're at 50% pre-COVID passenger numbers, and they're at 50% capacity on the vehicles, wouldn't that mean they're essentially back to 'normal' and overcrowding could become an issue?
I suppose it depends on how soon we get back to being able to have near enough full capacity back.
Closer to 40% than 50% in terms of pre-COVID passenger numbers, but that's in total, spread across the whole day. The growth isn't necessarily during the peaks as a lot of office workers (despite the latest government advice) are still working from home.