04-21-2020, 12:49 PM
Grand River Transit is asking the region to limit the amount of passengers on a bus to 10. Right now, they kind of eyeball it and if a bus is - at the most - half full, they will not pick up any more passengers until the next one.
I think they really should have been doing that sooner, as some routes still do get pretty full. I'd like to see the drivers get their wish and only have 10 people per bus. It'd also make sense to block off access to every other seat or something with some yellow rope. Not everyone who gets on is distancing themselves, and the couple times I've been on the bus or ION, I've had two get up and move twice. While we do seem to have community transmission minimized in the region, that does not mean you can't have a couple positive carriers who unknowingly get on a bus and suddenly we get another spike.
I think they really should have been doing that sooner, as some routes still do get pretty full. I'd like to see the drivers get their wish and only have 10 people per bus. It'd also make sense to block off access to every other seat or something with some yellow rope. Not everyone who gets on is distancing themselves, and the couple times I've been on the bus or ION, I've had two get up and move twice. While we do seem to have community transmission minimized in the region, that does not mean you can't have a couple positive carriers who unknowingly get on a bus and suddenly we get another spike.