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Pandemic public bus

Title (Dublin Core)

Pandemic public bus

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Description (Dublin Core)

Photo credit goes to the Coronavirus Chronicle Facebook page. The photo shows the locked front part of the MTA bus. This photo directly connects to my experience of taking buses during the surge of the Covid-19 pandemic in March and April 2020. I observed absolutely the same picture of the bus interior every single day on my daily trip to work. The front of the bus was purposely locked by crisscrossed chains and two safety belts. Hence passengers could not get on the bus in the front and the machine that took trip payment money and cards also were not available for public use. Passengers had a free ride throughout the pandemic on all NYC buses. MTA drivers avoided close airborne contact with other people to keep themselves safe and not lose their in-person work respectively. Such isolated buses reminded me of a post-apocalypse underground train in one of the parts of the Matrix film. Neo and his fellows had to hide from computer program agents that try to invade their shelter at the abandoned subway system.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Coronavirus Chronicle Facebook page.

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Faruh Davletov

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST718

Partner (Dublin Core)

College of Staten Island

Type (Dublin Core)

Screenshot

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Cities & Suburbs
English Transportation
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

NYC
New York
MTA
bus

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

#lockdownstatenisland

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/12/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/02/2023
04/03/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/2020

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This item was submitted on March 12, 2023 by Faruh Davletov using the form “Share Your Lockdown Staten Island Story” on the site “Lockdown Staten Island”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/lockdown-staten-island

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