A remnant of the Bay Area’s pandemic-era lockdowns could become a relic on Thursday.
One of the last remnants of the Bay Area’s pandemic-era lockdowns – BART’s mandatory face covering policy – could become a relic on Thursday.
The transit agency’s board of directors will vote Thursday evening on whether to effectively end the mandate on Oct. 1 and hand over future masking authority to Robert Powers, BART’s general manager. Powers would be allowed to reinstate a mask mandate only if certain conditions are met, including COVID-19 cases surging locally or nationwide, or if mask mandates are reinstated in any of the five Bay Area counties in which BART operates.
“None of those conditions are currently being met,” Alicia Trost, a BART spokesperson said. “Something could change in the next few days, but that’s extremely unlikely.”
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