Riding Together:
Bay Area Healthy
Transit Plan

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Moving the Bay Area Safely

Bay Area Public Transportation Providers have collectively developed this health and safety plan to bring the region’s public transportation providers together around transit-related health and safety standards and mitigations.
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  • To our Customers, Employees and Partners,

    The COVID-19 Pandemic has been a massive strain for everyone. And it presents transit systems with a historic set of challenges, including the need to adjust protocols and procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for everyone.
    Collectively, we as the transit operators in the nine Bay Area counties, have joined forces to initiate research, study U.S. and international efforts, and review information from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), to develop common commitments and expectations for employees and passengers in our Bay Area transit systems. From this work, we developed Riding Together—Bay Area Healthy Transit Plan. Development of our plan has additionally included collaboration with regional leaders, transit workers, paratransit providers, rider advocates, public health experts, and others.

  • As we are all guided forward by our State and local leadership toward business resumption, we view the safety of our employees and passengers as job number one. This plan serves as a tool for us, providing common commitments that have been set in place for our employees, our current passengers, and those who will be returning to transit.
    This is a plan we own. A plan we will report on. And a plan that we will modify to the fluctuating nature of this pandemic. Furthermore, we are committed to the success of this plan, and look forward to a partnership with our customers and the shared responsibility for reducing transmission by properly wearing face coverings and meeting other expectations. We are all in this together. We look ahead to serving our customers as well as teaming with them to work through this challenging time that faces everyone.
    Bay Area Transit Operators

Plan Purpose
  • Identify consistent health and safety standards for public transportation customers to do and public transportation providers to implement as the Bay Area eases out of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order
  • Clarify expectations and responsibilities of transit customers and transit providers
  • Recommend communication strategies and key messages to promote public transportation customer and provider compliance with and support for mitigations.
Scope of Plan
  • Applies to Bay Area public transportation providers (non-aviation) including rail, bus, ferry, paratransit, demand response and micro-transit
  • Limited to COVID-19 recovery efforts and mitigations
  • Covers public transportation services provided both directly by the public transportation providers and those provided under contract
  • Flows down mitigations from public transportation providers to contractors, as needed.