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Businesses must change working hours to avoid 'chaos' on public transport and the roads in a post-COVID world, mayor warns
hereBut he added: "Capacity is going to be a problem, we've not got any more trams to put out on the network."Even if social distancing rules were eased to one metre, he said, that would only increase Metrolink capacity to 23pc, adding: "The constraints on buses trams and trains will be there for as long as we don't have a vaccine, there's no question about that."He said one way to tackle this problem was to look at how people use public transport and at what times they travel.He added: "If you look outside London I am always struck by the fact the working day is a traditional nine to five."We are working quite hard with businesses in this period to ask them to stagger the start and end times to the working day and allow the peak to be