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Wuhan Traffic Report

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28 pointstempsy8 comments

Basic observation: Weekday traffic levels still noticeably down vs 2019 average post lockdown. Weekend traffic still nearly dead.

If this is accurate, nothing about the current congestion levels and patterns appear to be “back to normal”.

Most of my friends in China are still very reluctant to go out, even though most lockdowns have been lifted. People were much more concerned about it than in Europe / US, and that fear is not going to go away with the lockdowns lifted. That's probably one explanation of why people are still staying inside in the weekends.

I'm in the US. If the lockdown where I live were lifted, I'd go out much less too:

1) There's a difference in risk between when people ought to be forced to stay home, and when people ought to stay home whenever possible. I don't think I'll be in a movie theater for a long, long time.

2) I've adapted. A lot of things I do now, I prefer, and I'm not going back to my old ways. When you switch to WFH, food delivery, homeschooling, etc. and reorganize your life and your home to do that, some things turn out to be worse, and some to be better.

I would be surprised if life anywhere goes back to 100% traffic.

Perhaps citizens aren't trusting what the government is saying.

If we’re talking about China, then this has nothing to do with distrusting the government, most people take the government’s words for truth. This has more to do with people exercising caution after almost two months in lockdown. Maybe they’re aware that even if the lockdown is lifted, the virus still lingers around.

Keep in mind that this shows CONGESTION, not traffic. Zero congestion does not mean that no one is on the road; It just means that there is excess capacity compared to usage.

During protests in Iran you could see blocked traffic on Google Maps.

There is some interesting data out there I'm sure is being mined, but I'm sure could be mined more. I still don't even see good traffic weather maps. Are people watching for traffic jams outside of submarine facilities?

As I guess expected Wuhan doe not have traffic on Google maps.

I'd be more worried about the factory cities than the hot spot really -

https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/guangzhou-traffic...

Baidu Map offers real time traffic map. There is no historical data available though.

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