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Ex. MET-PDX-048 Order Primary source read

Temporary service reductions effective April 5, 2020 (58 of 85 bus lines adjusted to roughly Saturday schedules; MAX every 15 minutes with commute-period trains suspended; WES every 45 minutes; Line 272 suspended; 24-hour lines not overnight; weekly bus hours down 21 percent); cash no longer accepted on buses; hiring freeze (Mar. 27, 2020)

TriMet to adjust schedules, preserve safety and service, as community responds to COVID-19

TriMet (General Manager Doug Kelsey) · Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) · Portland · Oregon
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
ORS ch. 267; TriMet Code; Governor's EO 20-12 (recited)
Issued
2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
Effective
2020-04-05 (schedules); 2020-03-27 (cash suspension) (read as 2020-04-05)
End
Not shown in this set (reduced service continued through at least July 2020, MET-PDX-045) (read as 2020-09-30)
In force
Apr. 5, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Capacity limitTravel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • all TriMet riders
  • TriMet operators (approximately 210 fewer full-time operators required)
Functions reached
  • WF commuting workforce (frequency cut; overnight service ended on two lines; airport night bus suspended)
  • TR
  • CB
  • HR TriMet hiring freeze
Collection
Portland MET-PDX

Operative words

beginning April 5, TriMet will adjust schedules to reflect the reality of dropping ridership... Governor Brown's Stay Home, Stay Healthy executive order and other closures and restrictions to stop the spread of COVID mean most people do not need to take transit right now. Some 1,003,336 trips were taken on TriMet buses and trains during the week of March 15, down from 1,901,445 average weekly trips in February 2020. That's a 47.2% decline as schools and other locations closed.... 58 of TriMet's bus lines, or 68%, will see adjustments. The adjustments were roughly built off TriMet's current Saturday service schedules... Weekly bus service hours will be reduced by about 21%.... MAX trains on all lines will run every 15 minutes throughout the majority of the weekday.... WES trains will run every 45 minutes, instead of every 30 minutes.... TriMet is no longer taking cash on buses.

Enforcement

Agency schedule and fare rules

Notes

Documents the ridership collapse caused by the closures and the stay-home order and the schedule reductions that followed; service was preserved on lines serving hospitals and the Rivergate, Swan Island, Airport Way, Troutdale Reynolds and Raleigh West employment centers.

Retrieval note

Agency's own announcement of the operating change (news.trimet.org); graded primary as an agency public notice.

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