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Ex. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-030 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

NJTA announcement, Mar. 31, 2020: main building at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area closed after a contractor worker tested positive; restrooms and food service unavailable; fuel continues; 17 NJTA service areas 'remain open for fuel, restrooms, and grab-and-go food'; UPDATE Apr. 14, 2020: reopened

Joyce Kilmer Service Area on Turnpike Closed Temporarily After Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19

New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) · New Jersey (Joyce Kilmer Service Area, Turnpike northbound between interchanges 8A and 9) (Sector regulator)

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Jurisdiction
New Jersey (Joyce Kilmer Service Area, Turnpike northbound between interchanges 8A and 9) · New Jersey
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
NJTA control of its service areas; State of emergency (recited: 'motorists who must travel during the state of emergency')
Issued
2020-03-31 Mar. 31, 2020
Effective
2020-03-30 (evening closure) to 2020-04-14 (reopened) (read as 2020-03-30)
End
2020-04-14
In force
Mar. 30, 2020 to Apr. 14, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • truckers and motorists using the Turnpike service areas
  • HMS Host employees (14-day self-quarantine)
Functions reached
  • DR drivers (service-area restrooms and food closed on a truck corridor)
  • WF workforce (14-day quarantine of service-area staff)
  • CB customer access (grab-and-go only at the 17 open areas, under EO 107)
Character
context
Collection
State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT

Operative words

The main building at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike has been closed after a worker tested positive for COVID-19. Restrooms and food service will not be available at that location until further notice. Fuel sales will continue.... Employees in the main building at Joyce Kilmer have been advised to self-quarantine for the next 14 days. In order to accommodate truckers and other motorists who must travel during the state of emergency, 17 NJTA service areas on the Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway remain open for fuel, restrooms, and grab-and-go food.... UPDATE, April 14, 2020: The Joyce Kilmer Service Area has reopened.

Enforcement

Facility closure by the authority; quarantine advice to the contractor's employees

Notes

Service announcement graded context; documents an outbreak-driven facility closure and the 'grab-and-go' operating limit on every Turnpike and Parkway service area under New Jersey's stay-at-home order.

Retrieval note

Rendered Wayback capture (May 14, 2021) of njta.com/newsroom/kilmer-closed-a... (banner URL truncated); item dated Mar 31 2020 with the authority's Apr. 14, 2020 update. Cookie-banner text overlays one sentence in the text layer; the operative text is legible.

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