COVID-19 Ambassadors Help You Ride Muni Correctly
COVID-19 Ambassadors Help You Ride Muni Correctly By Mariana Maguire If you’re taking Muni for essential trips along Market Street you might see SFMTA’s yellow-vested Ambassadors wearing face masks or coverings and directing customers to maintain safe physical distance at curbside bus stops and boarding islands. What you can’t see are their smiles behind their masks as they work throughout the day to help San Francisco “flatten the curve.” COVID-19 Ambassadors at a bus stop on Market Street. Last week, the SFMTA launched our COVID-19 Ambassador Program. Although overall ridership is down, during peak times in certain areas we sometimes still see crowding at bus stops and on buses. If a bus is too crowded, our operators will stop picking up new passengers until there is enough room for more. We know that this and other changes are tough on everyone. That’s where our Ambassadors come in. Their aim is to encourage customers to practice good public health behavior throughout the entir...
