After Corona? - TRANSPORT

In these After Corona? podcasts, we're asking people how their lockdown experiences have shaped their thinking, and what they have learned about their industries and communities. We're curious about post-traumatic growth, and whether this sudden and painful disruption may go down in history as a watershed moment for meaningful change. We're not expecting authoritative answers - just personal testimony, and some honest ideas. In this episode: transport. For the past couple of decades we have been demanding a lot more from our transport systems. Cleaner, greener and more sustainable fuels. More efficiency, better service and justifications for high prices. Public transport and mass transit has to be a core part of our future, but we've never really figured out who is accountable for it. And then in 2020, over 80% of us stopped using it because it simply isn't safe to bunch up with strangers in a confined space. With the backbone infrastructure of the developed world on life support, and tens of thousands of jobs at risk - what will this mean for the long term? Our special guests today are Freddie - a commercial airline pilot; Dan - a Material Controller for Bombardier Transportation; Martin - who works in global airline sales; and Chris - a train driver. All of these reflections are from the first lockdown in spring 2020. Some names have been changed. As always, we start with the important questions - who are you, and how are you feeling? --- Useful links: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-williams-rail-review https://www.bombardier.com/en/home.html For more information on how you can get involved with The Possibility Club – an inclusive community of professionals working out what's next, have a look here > www.thepossibilityclub.org You can also receive Finding Chances, a free weekly letter from Richard Freeman, looking behind-the-scenes at business, culture, community and education by signing-up at www.findingchances.substack.com/ We'd love to know what you think of this podcast. Please review and share your responses to this podcast on your favourite podcast platform. This is an always possible podcast. The interviewer was Richard Freeman for always possible and the producer was Chris Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts.