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- Jurisdiction
- Delaware (statewide: New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties) · Delaware
- Level
- State
- Authority
- DTC service-planning and fare authority under 2 Del. C. ch. 13; State of Emergency declaration of Mar. 12, 2020 (Ex. DE-001)
- Issued
- 2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-18 (Saturday schedules on weekdays); 2020-03-21 (paratransit cash and tickets not accepted) (read as 2020-03-18)
- End
- Not documented in this cluster; passenger limits and rear-door boarding added Apr. 2, 2020 (Ex. 087) (read as 2020-04-02)
- In force
- Mar. 18, 2020 to Apr. 2, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- DART fixed-route riders statewide
- DART paratransit customers
- Functions reached
- WF commuting workforce (weekday service cut to Saturday levels statewide)
- CB customer access
- TV travel
- Character
- binding
- Collection
- State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT
Operative words
Starting on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, DART will operate a reduced service schedule until further notice. On weekdays, regular fixed route services will operate on a Saturday service schedule statewide, with additional service on Routes 15, 18, 43 and 301.... Paratransit: Starting Saturday, March 21, DART Paratransit will no longer be accepting cash or tickets. Customers will be billed for their trips at a later date.
Enforcement
Carrier operating rule; no penalty clause
Notes
Statewide transit reduction in the first week of Delaware's emergency; service announcement graded context, with the no-cash paratransit rule a binding fare rule.
Retrieval noteRendered Wayback capture (Mar. 22, 2020) of the authority's own notice ('Last Updated: 03/20/20'). Banner URL truncated; the self-link on the page gives the full URL recorded here.