The city has announced it will be limiting seating to a maximum of 15 passengers on their public transit buses and are asking residents to use transit for “essential trips only.” This comes just a day after the city declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this week, Kingston Transit decided to reduce service on almost all its lines to Sunday schedules with the following exceptions: The city also added a shuttle that offered direct service from the Centre 70 park and ride to Kingston General Hospital from 6 a.m.
to 8 p.m. every day of the week to accomodate health care workers trying to get downtown. Those changes came into effect Thursday.