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Ex. MET-MSY-033 Order Primary source read

RTA service reduction: Saturday schedule on all bus and streetcar routes, essential travel only

RTA Encourages Essential Travel Only; Agency Will Implement Reduced Service Plans in COVID-19 Response

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), announced through the City's NOLA Ready emergency site · New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Orleans Parish) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Orleans Parish) · New Orleans and Baton Rouge · Louisiana
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
RTA operating authority (La. R.S. 48:1651 et seq.) under the City and State emergency declarations
Issued
2020-03-15 Mar. 15, 2020
Effective
2020-03-17
End
2020-05-17 (service restored to Saturday levels on all routes and fares reinstated, Ex. 036) (read as 2020-05-17)
In force
Mar. 17, 2020 to May 17, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Travel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • all transit riders
  • paratransit riders
Functions reached
  • WF workforce commuting
  • TRAV
  • CB customers' access to businesses
  • HK hospitality and service workforce
Collection
New Orleans and Baton Rouge MET-MSY

Operative words

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

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.

Retrieval note

Agency's own release on the City's official emergency site, archived Mar. 17, 2020.

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