Super loud background noise with a soft speaker is a bad mix. Come one WSJ, even I have better audio control on my channel and I'm a total amateur with no editing software at all.

I really like the idea of building local economies. Everything needs to be scaled down to be sustainable. Globalisation should be limited to certain non-essential goods. Everything else should, including urban farms, be within your county or the next at least.

Is the WSJ trying to turn their KZfaq into an ASMR channel with that voice?

Fix the sound!

her voice makes me want to stay at home.

The pandemic is more like going to change how where we work. not how we commute.

With rigorous cleaning and universal mask wearing, public transit can be safe. Examples are South Korea and Taiwan

After 200 years since the bicycle's invention it's discovered it's usefulness.

Here in Brazil they reduced the number of buses during social distancing rules which resulted in crowded buses anyway. As people who work in industries which remained open with 50% capacity still had to go for work and inside a bus with more people than it was before the pandemic 🤐

Shhhh the audience might hear you

You know what’s really funny? For years people have been complaining society is too dependent on technology. That people spend too much time on their phones and computers and how social media was destroying humanity. Now we need them more than ever.

Audio for video seems quite low, please increase volume, or record with clearer voice. other than that, the video is very informative. Thank you!

I want local economies to be the norm Working from home and having basic necessites at walking distance seems like the way to go

Speak louder

The 15 minute city is going to be pretty pricey to live in. It's a great idea and one that already exists. It's called a metropolitan city like NY, DC, Boston, etc.

I personally don’t miss my commute on the NYC subway...

Seems fo me the roads are just as congested as before😐 which ik is not the point if this video but I'm still sad

Fix the sound

Cities should start introducing, encouraging and legalizing alternative forms of transport like electric kick scooters, hoverboards, electric skateboards etc. to take pressure off the public transport systems. Widening bike and pedestrian lanes are a good start and they can encourage the use of these newly widened paths by allowing people to commute using the aforementioned alternative forms of transport.

What’s wrong with the sound??

‘Improve the protective screen for the bus drivers’... man they just put clear tape over the little holes in the window between the passengers and bus drivers. Looks like they got the set up at Aldi.

this may accelerate Uber getting driverless cars because people may be reluctant to share a car w a coughing driver.

WSJ Wants you to sign up to there website in order for the sound to be mixed properly.

Please watch with 1.5x speed. Thank me later

Wait, which cites have begun building up their transit systems? My city is always citing budget concerns and chopping up transit systems, Yet they can always seen to find the money to build wider roads.

First step is to upzone all residential areas so densities are high enough for more people to walk or bicycle to work if they can't work from home. But I know it's political suicide if an elected official says single family home owners could have a 4plex next door

It's the moment of the bike. Sanity at last.

You act like there's going to be an "after the pandemic"

Public transportation is still a good long-term solution to reduce carbon footprint. The pandemic on the other hand is short term.

next: traveling via VR

Such a calming voice, would love if I could hear her without putting my volume on max.

15 minute cities I support!!!!✊🏼😭

sound editing is so bad i stopped the video after 15sec

It’s changing the commute by eliminating it. The title of this video should be about public transportation in general - not commutes.

I really like that 15 minutes concept! This might be the future if bigger cities can apply it. But it could also separate the wealthier part even more from the poorer part of the people.

There will probably going to be a new Wall Street transport system, that’s the change to transportation

The volume is really low on this video.

In my view, if there is a job that can be done remotely then that should be the standard.

Not sure how having 50% of the world's 80+ year olds dying slightly earlier than they normally is would a bad thing.

I’m glad that there are measures in place finally to disinfect and clean public transit. For the past month of this pandemic, I have worked and have commuted on public transit to get to and from home. Where I live, transit has been free for the past 3 months.

Not happening, my partner and I felt so trapped in NYC when this started. Getting a car was our first choice and then buying a family house to start.

yet in brooklyn theres no plan for bicycle lanes?!

6:27 the short hand moves faster than the long hand lol

I’m working in a hospital, 35 mins away by car from my house. The state government decided to congregated all the hospital/research institute around the same area to create a ‘hub’. There is no such thing as working 15 mins away aka local suburban economy for most ppl. Lol. And houses near the hospital are too expensive. There were numerous housing boom, good for the older generations who bought properties in the 80s and 90s.

This video makes me think Moscow was unconsciously prepared for pandemic: we had protective screens for drivers for years, and metro trains produced since ~ 2017 have ultraviolet sytremes built-in

This is pretty revolutionary thinking. Redesigning the way people work, move, and live should be at the core of any stimulus package. The world missed a chance when the bulk of the 2008 bailouts were leveled at the banking sector, of which that money was not expended at projects like transit and redesigning cities.

The sound sounds fine to me...

I gotta say i dont think anything will change within 10-20 years. Becuase if we look at the spanish flu. We went back to our normal lives so maybe when this virus is very rare we woul go back to normal

Mind you that they never mentioned that these rigorous cleaning measures are happening in the USA when it most definitely should. This country is so stupid

cycling is always the best

Either increase the loudness of the speaker or reduce the bgm loudness 🙏🏾

Thank You! - very interesting and actual subject - 🌟

This narrator has depression

We should rethink the way our cities are designed because if new viruses keep emerging (and if you pay attention to what's been going on the past 20 years they will) we are going to need to make them more friendly towards pedestrians and cyclers. Doing nothing will result in a dramatic increase of cars, or worst, noisy motorcycles that will severely damage life quality and worsen the environmental crisis.

Cycling is a great way to move around, keep healthy, and practice social distancing. In addition, showers at the office should become more commonplace, both because it makes it so people aren’t deterred from riding, since they can shower, but also because showering can help stop the spread of the virus.

I would add some notes of caution to this video: 1) When she says "cities have invested..." we can effectively think of this as excluding American Cities by orders of magnitude. 2) The impression of transit as "dirty spreaders of disease" is a coded reference to the people who ride transit and its important to remember that prejudice since ... 3) there's no indication that transit has done any more to spread COVID19 than highways or flying have - the recent spread of COVID19 in the south and in the midwest of the US should make you think twice about the assumption this is a problem only for cities and only for transit. Indeed... 4) if anything, shared spaces, controlled access provided by transit, and shared identities in city neighborhoods probably make it easier to implement policies to control/slow the spread of the virus in cities - note the innovations in transit cleanliness and cycling. Try enforcing those policies on a rural or suburban highway/environment. That's not to say the video/narrator is wrong about the need to refocus and rethink, but it is a problem if we're not putting that in the correct context and feeding the false narrative. Buses and the people that ride them are NOT bringing disease to your neighborhood.

I’ll be working remotely until I retire in a couple of years. Will probably move out of Manhattan and into my condo in SC once the virus slows down.

My kids are riding their bikes to school no bus

What would a 15 minutes town in the US looks like? Every 15 minutes of "travelling" distance, there will be a China town, South American town, European town, African town, etc. Nah, impossible

Why the narrating is so ASMR?

I agree with everyone else on how bad the sound was but it was the clock at 6:22 that really irked me.

THere's no more commute. We work from home. I bought Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Netflix, Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, Snapchat

Didn't expect such low quality narration volume from WSJ. Seriously dissatisfied. Please fix.

This story misses the point entirely. In the future many Americans will work from home. Rapid transit will not be as necessary as it has been in the past. People are starting to flee big cities for suburbs.

This video is ignoring the obvious: Getting rid of the city.

She needs to speak up and speak faster

I've never seen the cleaning robot in hong kong mtr, but in advertisement

You better fix the audio and reupload this video.

People should remember we have had pandemics before.....but cities evolved still to what we have now. So a lot of these videos are statistically likely to be over exaggerated.

How does any of street changes actually change ability to combat the virus spreading? As far as I can understand the car is the most effective way of reducing the spread. To me that just seems like they are using the virus to further their agenda of bike/public transportation friendly cities.

Yeah... when the government announce social distancing measure for transportation the cost of transport immediately double some even charged triple...

Welcome to Tokyo, nothing has changed.

And everything changed when the virus attacked

Eye roll

trains and buses are not carrying more than their payload capacity which is good for them

It seems personal car transportation is here to stay. They may as well get on to testing more self-driving cars and anticipate 100% of cars being self-driving and communicating with each other.

“The 15 minute city” 😂😂🤦

Good video, I am from indonesia🙏👍 ,like

The video is practically whispering

More Motorcycles!

Why is the narrator whispering?

SO WTI CRUDE AINT GOING BACK TO 60?

the revenge of cars

I hope atlanta Georgia officials see this clip

So bring on autonomous electric small cars, AKA Johnnie Cabs, with built in disinfection after each fare is complete. Uber and the like may get there licensing quicker as a result of C19.

Gotta love this propeganda machine channel.

How The Pandemic Is...? (fill in the blank for your desired headline)

Give more people who can work from that opportunity. And mandate masks.

Nanotechnology? Seriously 😒

it's just all questions and short term expensive solutions.

Minority Report coming soon!

Speak loudly please...

Can't afford technology that already exists.... The human invention of money.

FIX THE AUDIO

All of those chemicals being sprayed are going to do us more harm than good.

Car is secure against virus but they destroy car lanes. No logic.

Listening to this narrator is about as pleasant as dragging a cheese grater across my ear

How can bike hires be a good idea during a pandemic? Who's gonna wipe them down? The customers? They can barely wear their masks!

Sounds like the ideal way to commute is a personal cabin for each commuter. Oh wait, that's a car.

SPEAK UP WOMAN