WORLD’S APART

What if? It’s a fair enough question that many of us have needed to apply to many aspects of our lives recently once our private, work and business worlds starting turning upside down. Or unexpectedly sideways, at least.

Never more so have so many felt so separated yet needing to draw closer together for sanity’s sake than through the current global Covid-19 pandemic, it must be said.

In terms of bus travel – with its greatest commodity being moving bulk loads of people usually safely and efficiently each day – there are definitely challenges ahead. Many companies, though, are rising to them – as best they can. The prognosis?

With experts predicting that air travel won’t recover fully for at least the next three years – regardless of how any newly instilled flight phobia may have successfully bedded in – we are bound by our state and even intrastate borders