The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Massachusetts; division of MassDOT) · Massachusetts
- Level
- State
- Authority
- M.G.L. c. 161A, § 3 (MBTA may operate and determine the character and extent of service) and § 5
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17
- End
- successive revisions Mar. 18-25, Apr. 6 (Ex. 055, 056); service restored in stages from June 2020; Commuter Rail cuts renewed Jan. 23, 2021 (Ex. 069) (read as 2021-01-23)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to Jan. 23, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- MBTA riders; employers in the Boston commuter-shed
- Functions reached
- WF workforce commuting capacity into Boston reduced
- TR
- CB
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
MBTA release of Mar. 16, 2020 announcing that reduced schedules (subway, bus, Commuter Rail, ferry) take effect Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020 in response to COVID-19 and reduced ridership (text as rendered from the MBTA's news page).
Enforcement
MBTA operating authority (M.G.L. c. 161A)
Notes
Transit service reduction as a workforce (WF) instrument; the first of the MBTA's COVID-19 service orders.
Retrieval noteRendered from the live MBTA news page in 2026 (the archived text layer did not carry the release body); the release's own words were not fully legible in the PDF text layer; graded secondary accordingly.