The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority service area (Austin and suburbs) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- CapMetro board and executive authority over fares and rider rules during the Stay Home - Work Safe period
- Issued
- 2020-04-27 Apr. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-01 (fare suspension); face coverings required of all customers as of the release (read as 2020-04-01)
- End
- 2020-05-31 (fare-free period); face-covering requirement continued (Ex. MET-AUS-087) (read as 2020-05-31)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantineOther
- Addressees
- all CapMetro customers and operators
- Functions reached
- WF transit-commuting workforce: essential trips only, rear-door boarding, face coverings
- TR/TV
- CB
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
CapMetro will continue the implementation of free fares for all customers through the month of May. The agency first suspended its fares on April 1 to protect customers and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.... We ask our customers to use transit for essential trips only during the Stay Home-Work Safe shelter-in-place period.... In addition, customers may only board using the rear door, and a yellow chain barrier has been installed on buses to provide separation for our operators... All bus and rail operators have been provided with facial coverings, and all customers are required to wear facial coverings while using CapMetro services.
Enforcement
Operator and security enforcement; face coverings supplied to riders without one
Notes
Evidences the transit layer of the Austin stay-home period. File name dated 2020-05-11; the release is dated April 27, 2020.