The COVID Project
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The record
- Jurisdiction
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); long-distance network
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 49 U.S.C. § 24305(a)
- Issued
- 2020-08-17 Aug. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-01 ("beginning this October") (read as 2020-10-01)
- End
- daily service restored between May 24 and June 7, 2021 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 condition (read as 2021-06-07)
- In force
- Oct. 1, 2020 to June 7, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- passengers on 12 long-distance routes; on-line communities and station concessions
- Functions reached
- TR intercity travel to some 500 communities
- CB station-area hotels, concessions and tourism
- WF
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
"August 17, 2020 Most Daily Long-Distance Services to be Changed to Tri-Weekly. 'We are sharing with customers our new schedules for reduced Long Distance train frequencies that are planned to go into effect this October. [These changes respond to the] reduction in travel demand due to the Coronavirus pandemic and follow steps we've already had to make across our other services lines across our network,' said Stephen Gardner, Amtrak Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating and Commercial Officer."
Enforcement
n/a (carrier service decision)
Notes
Documents the Q4 2020-Q2 2021 reduction of the national long-distance network to three days a week.