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[KevinKorell]

LACMTA website:

 

  Metro is coordinating with L.A. County Department of Public Health on response to coronavirus 

 

 

 

As many people are already aware, an outbreak of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, has disrupted daily life in many places across the globe. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has declared a local and public health emergency in response to increased spread of coronavirus across the country and six additional cases in L.A. County.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Wehoville, 3/23/20:

 

  Metro Implements Bus and Light Rail Measures to Reduce COVID-19 Risk 

 

 

 

Metro on Sunday announced new procedures for bus riders and a new schedule for its light rail service in efforts to contain coronavirus.

 

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[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro Source, 3/20/20:

 

  Metro announces service adjustments due to COVID-19 crisis  

 

 

 

A Metro online press briefing held this morning just concluded — watch it here — with several important announcements about steps the agency is taking during the COVID-19 crisis to provide mobility and to provide for the safety of the riding public and Metro’s workforce.

 

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[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro Source, 3/23/20:

 

 

Two contractors on Metro construction projects test positive for COVID-19  

 

 

 

Two contractors working on Metro construction projects have been confirmed as having the COVID-19 virus. Neither had any involvement with the day-to-day operations of the Metro bus and rail system.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Rail, Track, & Structures, 3/31/20:

 

 

  Light rail work in L.A. area accelerating, but construction worker tests positive for COVID-19 

 

 

 

Olympic athletes often change their training regiment leading up to the Games. In Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, workers constructing a more expansive subway system for the 2028 Summer Games are changing their building regiment. The hope is it will gain a little speed during the shelter-in-place order in California.

 

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[KevinKorell]

LAist, 3/18/20:

 

   How LA Metro And Other Public Transit Agencies Are Adapting To Our New Coronavirus Reality  

 

 

 

Our professional and personal lives have been dramatically upended by the spread of COVID-19, but regional public transit in greater Los Angeles is still moving — though it's noticeably less crowded right now (and service is reduced in some places).

 

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[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro Source, 5/14/20:

 

  Metro to pursue four-phase plan to restore bus and rail service  

 

 

 

 

With some aspects of our local economy expected to reopen in the weeks ahead from Coronavirus safer-at-home orders, Metro will be implementing a four-phase plan for restoring bus and rail service.

 

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[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro Source, 6/29/20:

 

   Returning to Metro: what we’re doing — and need you to do — to prevent spread of coronavirus 

 

 

 

With Los Angeles County having been reopening for the past few weeks, our ridership has been increasing.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Los Angeles, CA Times, 9/24/20:

 

   L.A. Metro cuts budget by $1.2 billion, locking in steep reductions to bus, rail service  

 

 

 

Pummeled by a plunge in sales tax revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday locked in steep cuts to Los Angeles County bus and rail service for nearly a year.

 

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[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro Source, 12/7/20:

 

   A message from Metro on enforcement of face coverings on our system   

 

 

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, one question that we have regularly received from riders is this: why aren’t bus and train operators enforcing Metro’s requirement to wear face coverings while on our system?

 

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