I’ve been noticing hints of life returning back normal, for good or bad … 🚘 🚔 🏭 ⛽ 🚌💉

• Traffic volumes have significantly increased on local roads. Last spring you could sit out back in the evening and not see many cars if any at all during the strictest of lockdown when most businesses were closed and working remotely. Likewise, I find crossing Elm Avenue has gotten more difficult and much more traffic queuing at the morning and evening rush hour.
• Gas prices are noticeably up now. Summer is coming, but also it has to be all those very hungry cars looking for fuel and many people planning summer vacations and travel once they get vaccinated.
• When I was downtown I noticed several buses with “Training” on their displays. It looks like CDTA must be very actively hiring additional employees in preparation of service restorations when state offices re-opens downtown, probably sometime after May 1st.  It looks like Elm Avenue Park and Ride is ready to go whenever service is restored, but certainly commuting will be difficult if they don’t restore the rush hour service and express buses when the pandemic is over.
• A lot of people I know, including myself are getting vaccinated. For a while it seemed like only the elderly folk and those really in the inside were eligible for vaccination, but now it seems like many people I know have gotten the shots or will be getting them soon.