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Ex. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-045 Order Primary source read

TriMet COVID-19 service alert (captured Apr. 3, 2020): buses limited to 10-15 riders at a time to promote social distancing; reduced service from Apr. 5, 2020 line by line (MAX to 15 minutes, weekends on Sunday service; many bus lines to Saturday schedules or cut 50-60 percent; 272-PDX Night Bus suspended); 'Transit should only be used if necessary to access food, medicine and essential employment'

COVID-19 Update - Reduced Service (Buses will be limited to 10-15 riders at a time in order to promote social distancing)

Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) · Oregon (Portland metropolitan area: Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Oregon (Portland metropolitan area: Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties) · Washington
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
TriMet operating authority; 'please follow the guidance of Governor Brown and the Oregon Health Authority to stay home' (recited)
Issued
2020-04-02 Apr. 2, 2020
Effective
2020-04-05 (reduced service); rider limits immediately (read as 2020-04-05)
End
Not documented in this cluster (TriMet restored service in stages from summer 2020) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Apr. 5, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Capacity limitTravel and quarantine
Addressees
  • TriMet bus and MAX riders
Functions reached
  • WF commuting workforce (a 10-15 rider cap on every bus; frequencies cut)
  • CB customer access
  • TV travel
Character
binding
Collection
State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT

Operative words

Buses will be limited to 10-15 riders at a time in order to promote social distancing.... As ridership has dropped due to COVID-19, we will be temporarily reducing service starting April 5.... Transit should only be used if necessary to access food, medicine and essential employment. All other trips should be avoided -- please follow the guidance of Governor Brown and the Oregon Health Authority to stay home.... MAX Blue Line: On weekdays, trains will run every 15 minutes throughout most of the day. Weekends will follow Sunday service.... 1-Vermont: Weekday service will be reduced by 50%.... 272-PDX Night Bus: Service will be suspended.

Enforcement

Operator rule (passenger limit per bus; boarding refused when full)

Notes

Authority operating rule with a hard capacity limit on every bus in the Portland region, and a regional transit authority's statement that transit was to be used only for food, medicine and essential employment under EO 20-12.

Retrieval note

Rendered Wayback capture (Apr. 3, 2020) of trimet.org/alert... (banner URL truncated). The alert page is undated; date_issued is the filename date (Apr. 2, 2020), one day before the capture.

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