Amtrak: Masks Required On Trains And In Stations

NPR reports:

Amtrak is the latest transportation provider to require all passengers to wear facial coverings or masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, beginning Monday. The intercity passenger rail agency joins most of the nation’s passenger airlines and many public transit systems in requiring coverings or face masks on passengers.

Customers will have to “wear a facial covering over their nose and mouth while in stations, on trains and [Thruway] buses,” Amtrak said in a news release.

“Facial coverings can be removed when customers are eating in designated areas, in their private rooms, or seated alone or with a travel companion in their own pair of seats. Small children who are not able to maintain a facial covering are exempt from this requirement.”