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Saving lives while securing livelihoods: Limiting access to the available means of mobility is devastating to the poor
April 30, 2020 / by Nico McLachlan / Public Transport, Urban Mobility
Striking the balance between saving lives and securing livelihoods has been at the centre of the governments’ response to the COVID–19 Pandemic. As part of the focus on saving lives, (and preventing health system overrun), strict measures pertaining to travel on public transport modes have been imposed and will probably prevail for some time to […]
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