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Ex. MET-MSY-036 Order Primary source read

RTA service increase and reinstatement of fare collection (Saturday service all routes; suspended routes reinstated; overnight service resumed)

RTA increases transit service and reinstates fare collection

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority · New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Orleans Parish) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Orleans Parish) · New Orleans and Baton Rouge · Louisiana
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
RTA operating authority; Phase 1 reopening of the City
Issued
2020-05-13 May 13, 2020
Effective
2020-05-17 3:00 a.m. (read as 2020-05-17)
End
Later service restorations through 2020 (not separately saved) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
May 17, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Travel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • all transit riders
Functions reached
  • WF
  • TRAV
Collection
New Orleans and Baton Rouge MET-MSY

Operative words

Beginning Sunday, May 17th at 3:00 am, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will return to Saturday service on all bus and streetcar routes and reinstate fare collection as part of the Phase 1 reopening of the City of New Orleans due to the COVID-19 pandemic.... All routes that were previously suspended will be reinstated. Overnight service will resume beginning Sunday night into Monday morning.

Enforcement

Operational directive of the transit authority

Notes

Proves the fare suspension and route suspensions of March 17 - May 17, 2020 by their termination; service remained below weekday levels (Saturday schedule) after May 17.

Retrieval note

Agency press release, archived; text read.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.