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Ex. MET-HOU-058 Order Primary source read

A Letter from the METRO Board Chair: How METRO Has Responded to the COVID-19 Outbreak, with fact sheet

Letter from the METRO Board Chair and COVID-19 fact sheet

METRO Board Chair · Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) · Houston · Texas
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
transit authority operating rules
Issued
2020-05-18 May 18, 2020
Effective
measures in effect as of May 18, 2020 (read as 2020-05-18)
End
rolling (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
May 18, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • METRO riders and employees
Functions reached
  • WF commuting workforce
  • CB
  • TV
Collection
Houston MET-HOU

Operative words

METRO has asked its riders to take only essential trips... Temporarily suspending fares... Giving all employees temperature checks upon reporting to work... Requiring bus operators to wear masks... Implementing rear-door bus boarding for all but mobility-impaired [riders]... Making buses available to handle overflow from the reduced seating capacity... Encouraging riders to wear masks... providing a mask to any rider who lacks one.

Enforcement

operating rules

Notes

Weekday ridership about 100,000 against a normal 280,000; Park & Ride service suspended except to the Texas Medical Center, partial resumption May 18, 2020

Retrieval note

Agency document; not an order with penalties. The federal CDC/TSA transit mask order (FED exhibits) governed METRO from Feb. 2021.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.