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Adam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse was covered by team to come to the forefront of his mind right now housing to you dealing with safety for the drivers and the passengers going to stop everybody in a changing process for us but you it started off in March will be when it benefits going on at looking at intake and offer guidance from the TNR locale official couple things on it. Please keep the 6 foot barrier, but the distance herself of this opinion, we did is we actually stop using the front door. The bus somebody needed for mobility device and that there is a protected interaction with the copper and the driver well.And you know which is a tough thing to do, but with all the cash handling and Handling thought that was that. That we are really good handstand kind on the buses on the front and the back and then just really trying to educate the public and post signs and just go along the same guidelines in the CDC about making sure people wash their hands and about writing cover your mouth and and am yet to get everybody webmaster. They can obviously safety is the most important thing for our operators in the public and I would really increase our cleaning rotation. If you want to call upgrading that are chemical to use something executive trying to kill the cold virus we had just installed UV wand. The driver area to help sanitize that and I really to our dreams that night after night they conjured our boxes are playing so yeah it's a lot of a lot of things. A lot of people are doing, but is negatively doing right and about ridership is an up down or about the same as it always has been well is the first time in over time. The only directors say that they're happy to write a check the town on the way down anywhere from on Sunday 50 to 70% in infant that is due to what information put out there no one ago that you resorted to stay home, order, and wanted people to only 12% so neatly put that out there that are bus service for keeping and service, reduce some of our our time that we run, but we kept it out there for events with only so you on a day that we had in all 2500 people for the box you know that someday. Down at 700 that the only time you hear me say that for the ridership down but that was the intent of the of the information on the buses that says essential travel only what is essential travel that while there's a lot of people in the healthcare field. There's a lot of people that work in the grocery stores. A lot of the work and are on long facilities and so forth that you depend on the MTU for transportation enough so I think it's pretty new to talk about the medical field and and help them consult and I'm just that help get them to plan point B. We had a feeder for that and also the large population that have asked the young food, medical appointments and in the MTU provide that far off for the city La Crosse and we just had to make sure that we are there for those people, even though in the lot going on the world right now. People still knee-deep people feel silly to get to their medical appointment. So that's why I'm waiting to essential service and that means I have since arrived on so I don't want everything opens up our schedule is going to open back up to what they were prior to the coronavirus in October 19 yeah will really plan what kind of dog the last 30 hours, been pretty chaotic and down with a lot of new information results and analyze all that but that that the plan has been in the plan so far as the report is to do a small open where right now where you live finale service on the 30 there is a member that 30 minutes or so hourly looking to put that back to our our every 30 minutes and most run all morning, and Sunday back here. Eventually I will probably still keep some of those initial safety factors in there like you only according to the door and as of right now were not to be accepted and he cares only for the month you to keep that interaction with minimal thoughtful, but long story short is that is in the area started to open up more convenient you and make additional changes back to normal as well