{"id":"MET-MSY-033","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Orleans Parish)","state":"LA","metro":"MSY","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), announced through the City\u0027s NOLA Ready emergency site","authority":"RTA operating authority (La. R.S. 48:1651 et seq.) under the City and State emergency declarations","instrument":"RTA service reduction: Saturday schedule on all bus and streetcar routes, essential travel only","title":"RTA Encourages Essential Travel Only; Agency Will Implement Reduced Service Plans in COVID-19 Response","dateIssued":"2020-03-15","effective":"2020-03-17","end":"2020-05-17 (service restored to Saturday levels on all routes and fares reinstated, Ex. 036)","startDate":"2020-03-17","endDate":"2020-05-17","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["TRAV","OTHER"],"addressees":["all transit riders","paratransit riders"],"clause":"The Regional Transit Authority will begin implementing service reductions, beginning Tuesday, March 17th to all bus, streetcar, ferry, and paratransit services to assist in the mitigation of community spread of COVID-19. These changes are being made in the interest of public health and safety to limit the use of public transit for essential travel only (work, health care, nutrition). All busses and streetcars will operate on a reduced Saturday schedule from Monday through Friday beginning March 17th.","enforcement":"Operational directive of the transit authority","functions":["WF workforce commuting","TRAV","CB customers\u0027 access to businesses","HK hospitality and service workforce"],"notes":"New Orleans has one of the highest transit-dependent workforces in the South; the reductions reached every employer whose staff commuted by bus or streetcar.","sourceUrl":"https://ready.nola.gov/incident/coronavirus/rta-encourages-essential-travel-only;-agency-will/","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200317011019/https://ready.nola.gov/incident/coronavirus/rta-encourages-essential-travel-only;-agency-will/","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":324493,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-MSY","url":"/library/MET-MSY-033","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-MSY-033","citation":"New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), announced through the City\u0027s NOLA Ready emergency site, RTA service reduction: Saturday schedule on all bus and streetcar routes, essential travel only (Mar. 15, 2020) (Ex. MET-MSY-033)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":[]}