BART mulls its fourth change to mandatory masking since April
BART Director Bevan Dufty, who represents parts of San Francisco, is spearheading the renewed face mask policy.
“I wish it had been overlapping and not had this kind of stop-start element,” said Dufty. “But I do believe that masked passengers give a sense of comfort — as long as they’re not below their nose — to folks that are coming back to BART.” Only one other Bay Area transit agency — East Bay’s AC Transit — still requires masks. Los Angeles County is expected this week to bring back its indoor mask mandate as infections from the highly contagious BA.5 variant surge there.
BART’s on-again, off-again mask mandate began in April when a court in Florida voided President Joe Biden’s federal mask mandate. That allowed transit agencies across the country to drop their face covering requirements and led to scenes of airline attendants ditching masks midflight — to the horror of some travelers.amid an outpouring of calls to protect the elderly and immunocompromised who rely on BART.
While many public health experts support a renewed mandate as a key tool to reducing spread, some, including Monica Gandhi at UC San Francisco, question the effectiveness of mandates that allow riders to
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