Looking around at the empty station platforms, carriages and closed shops, she observes that what used to be a 24-hour city has suddenly gone silent.
When Tamara Startin began driving trams a year ago, she learnt the art of squeezing people onto a packed tram during the chaos of peak hour.
She sees plenty of food delivery bikes and scooters and a few elderly people doing their grocery shopping. Metro train driver May Nicholson also notices the subtle changes in people's behaviour since the outbreak of COVID-19.
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