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Ex. MET-SDF-009 Order Primary source read

TARC Requests Passengers Limit Travel to Essential Trips Only in Response to COVID-19

Essential Trips Only ridership limitation

Transit Authority of River City (TARC), Co-Executive Directors Laura Douglas and Margaret Handmaker · Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky (TARC five-county service area) (City)

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Jurisdiction
Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky (TARC five-county service area) · Louisville and Lexington · Kentucky
Level
City
Authority
KRS ch. 96A (mass transit authorities); TARC's control of its vehicles and service; Executive Order 2020-257 (Healthy at Home) recited
Issued
2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
Effective
2020-04-03
End
2020-04-30 or the lifting of the Governor's March 25, 2020 stay-home order; still recited as in force Apr. 17, 2020 (Ex. MET-SDF-011) (read as 2020-04-30)
In force
Apr. 3, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Travel and quarantine
Addressees
  • all TARC passengers
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (commuting employees; 83 percent of TARC trips are for work or school)
  • CB customer base (transit-dependent customers)
  • TV travel
Collection
Louisville and Lexington MET-SDF

Operative words

Beginning today, and continuing until April 30, 2020, or until the Governor lifts the March 25, 2020, emergency 'Stay at Home' order, TARC is limiting ridership to 'essential services only.'... Each TARC bus will be properly posted with a notice... stating: ALL TARC BUSES ARE NOW ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY.... Unless obtaining necessary supplies and services to sustain your life and the lives of others, or traveling to and from employment in an 'essential business' that is 'necessary to sustain life,' you should remain at home. DO NOT TRAVEL ON TARC UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY

Enforcement

posted notice on every bus; operational limitation

Notes

Transit authority's application of the State stay-home order to the region's bus system; TARC states it 'averages over 41,000 daily riders' and that '83% of all trips taken... are for work or school.'

Retrieval note

TARC's release remains live on ridetarc.org and was rendered from the live page; archived capture of May 23, 2020 read for confirmation. The rendered page's CMS dateline reads 'April 3, 2021'; the content ('Beginning today, and continuing until April 30, 2020, or until the Governor lifts the March 25, 2020... order') fixes the release to April 3, 2020. Cite by content date.

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