It's more likely to align to demographic and economic numbers. A lot of those areas with low numbers in NYC are older and wealthier areas. The subway doesn't have that much to do with ithttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1245417529302028294 …
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1) No U.S. city has a subway system even close to the ridership of NYC's subway system (avg 8.7 MILLION riders a day. Next highest is D.C., with only 784,000 a day). 2) No U.S. city is even close to the number of infected as NYC. (NYC 47,439. Next highest is Chicago with 5,000.
Train travel much more common in Europe than U.S. I might add.
Of course people in Manhattan ride the subways, even those who are well to do. And people in areas 2 & 5, have the LIRR. Every area has buses. And area #1 in Staten Island is the hardest hit. It has more to do with age, demographics, and wealth than subway systems.
My argument, again, is that the subways are a significant part of the story, not the whole story. Riding the LIRR is a very different experience than, say, the 7 train.
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