Required to wear mask on public transportation starting Monday.

[Anonymous]

ALL #metro passengers, trains and buses, will be required to wear a face mask or covering beginning Monday morning - had been recommended, now required.

We don't enforce fare jumping and no longer enforce eating on the trains, so I wonder if this will be enforced.

[Anonymous]

https://www.wmata.com/about/news/Face-coverings-required.cfm

[Anonymous]

Face masks will help with the eating!!

[Anonymous]

Good

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ALL #metro passengers, trains and buses, will be required to wear a face mask or covering beginning Monday morning - had been recommended, now required.

We don't enforce fare jumping and no longer enforce eating on the trains, so I wonder if this will be enforced.

The Maryland Transit Administration and RideOn have had this requirement for weeks now. Or maybe months. It's starting to blur...

Nothing bad has happened yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ALL #metro passengers, trains and buses, will be required to wear a face mask or covering beginning Monday morning - had been recommended, now required.

We don't enforce fare jumping and no longer enforce eating on the trains, so I wonder if this will be enforced.

They said that they aren't planning to arrest people, and the switch was mostly to emphasize how important it is. I see lots of people wearing masks anyway, so this will reinforce that and maybe get a few more people to wear them.

[Anonymous]

Not in DC, but I've started riding transit again. Compliance is very high (although I was on a bus and a woman lowered her mask to yell a question to the driver at the front of the bus #notgettingit). I think there will be a lot of peer enforcement of this on. There is a high correlation between people who ride transit right now and those working and/or living in hard hit populations-we are taking it seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not in DC, but I've started riding transit again. Compliance is very high (although I was on a bus and a woman lowered her mask to yell a question to the driver at the front of the bus #notgettingit). I think there will be a lot of peer enforcement of this on. There is a high correlation between people who ride transit right now and those working and/or living in hard hit populations-we are taking it seriously.

I think peer enforcement will be the key driver here. If everyone is wearing a mask and you aren't, you stand out, and not in a good way. And bonus, if we all wear masks, we're all safer!

[Anonymous]

Wiedefeld said the emphasis will be on safety, rather than enforcement by Metro Transit Police.

“What we want to do is encourage everyone” to wear face coverings, said Wiedefeld.

“We think it’s a social responsibility, and the vast majority of people will do it, and yes, I think there will be some that won’t.”

Metro is trying to develop ways to get riders to willingly comply with the new requirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not in DC, but I've started riding transit again. Compliance is very high (although I was on a bus and a woman lowered her mask to yell a question to the driver at the front of the bus #notgettingit). I think there will be a lot of peer enforcement of this on. There is a high correlation between people who ride transit right now and those working and/or living in hard hit populations-we are taking it seriously.

I think peer enforcement will be the key driver here. If everyone is wearing a mask and you aren't, you stand out, and not in a good way. And bonus, if we all wear masks, we're all safer!

What? But if we all pay for our metro fares, shouldn't those who hope the turnstile stand out? Or those eating chicken wings stand out. The 'peer enforcement' thing does not work in todays society.

I am all for the face masks, I'll wear my face mask, but I am under no illusion that there will be non mask wearers and no mechanism to prevent that person from riding.

Why is this even a rule if there is no enforcement. Just remove it like the eating on the train rule that was too inconvenient to inforce.

[Anonymous]

Yay!

And I hope that stops the chicken eating and tooth picking as well.

[Anonymous]

The woke members of the DC Council basically decriminalized fare evasion in the Metro. What makes one think that Metro police will be able to enforce the mask requirement, particularly if violators of color are involved?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woke members of the DC Council basically decriminalized fare evasion in the Metro. What makes one think that Metro police will be able to enforce the mask requirement, particularly if violators of color are involved?

Decriminalization of fare evasion =/= lack of enforcement about fare evasion. It just means you can't be charged with a criminal offense. Nor should you be. Unless you think that parking violations should also be a criminal offense?

[Anonymous]

Great - it will be even easier to commit crimes on Metro while masked.

[Anonymous]

Violation of my constitutional rights. Sad that the US has now turned into communist North Korea. Norks have overrun local, state, and federal governments.