COVID-19: TRA ridership on Sunday plummets amid case surgePUBLIC TRANSPORT: The number of TRA and Taipei MRT passengers dropped 50% and 40% respectively during the peak morning travel hours yesterdayBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterRidership on the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) system on Sunday fell about 60 percent following a surge in locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in Taipei and New Taipei City, the agency said yesterday. TRA estimated a 50 percent decline in ridership during the peak morning hours yesterday, the first work day under stricter disease prevention measures. A Taiwan Railways Administration employee holds a disease prevention information sign on the platform of a train station in Taipei yesterday, while a train waits at the platform. “In addition to on the trains, eating and drinking is banned on platforms and in waiting areas,” he said. In Taipei and New Taipei City, ridership on the cities’ MRT railway or public bus systems has dramatically declined since the CECC raised the COVID-19 alert for the two municipalities to level 3 on Saturday last week.

Source: Taipei Times May 17, 2021 15:56 UTC