— Several transit agencies have announced further service cuts.
– Altamont Corridor Express will reduce service by an additional round trip as of Monday. Trains 5 and 6 are suspended until further notice; with trains 7 and 10 having been suspended in March, the service now provides two weekday roundtrips, with departures from Stockton, Calif., at 4:20 and 5:35 a.m. and departures from San Jose at 3:35 and 5:35 p.m.
– The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will cut bus and rail service by 15% effective Sunday, April 12. The Red, Blue, Green, and Waterfront lines will see service every 15 minutes during weekday peak periods. All but 13 bus and rail lines will see reductions.
— Canadian Pacific has begun a tribute to medical and emergency workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Toronto Sun reports that an internal memo from the railroad is directing all locomotives to sound their horns at 7 p.m. local time, and quotes Mark Redd, CP executive vice-president of operations, as saying in the memo, “The sounding of CP whistles joins the global movement to recognize critical health-care and frontline workers during these unprecedented times. … Our whistles also remind communities of the service the CP family provides North America every day.” The move follows a similar tribute in Vancouver, British Columbia, where residents gather at their windows to applaud health workers nightly at 7 p.m.
— Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has activated the state’s National Guard to screen arriving rail and airline passengers for the coronavirus at 17 locations across the state. The screenings are voluntary. Earlier in the week, Bullock imposed a 14-day quarantine on travelers arriving in Montana, the Billings Gazette reports.
— Updated to add GO Transit information at 2:35 p.m. CDT.
