Bay Transit using special filters and other safety steps

Last summer, Bay Transit, the public transportation division of Urbanna-based Bay Aging, initiated a campaign promoting its commitment to customer service and safety in confronting COVID-19. Bay Transit’s “Good to go!” campaign included advertising on the outside of several buses touting many of the safety protocols and best practices implemented to ensure drivers and riders safety. These measures included offering free rides on all Bay Transit buses to keep passengers and drivers from having to exchange money.

Two additional safety enhancements are being deployed now to help Bay Transit become even more “Good to go!” Last week, Bay Transit Fleet Manager David Fols installed a Freudenberg Filtration premium cabin filter in a Bay Transit bus. The filter is capable of trapping particles as small as .05 microns, less than one thousandth the thickness of a human hair. The Freudenberg filters are 99.9% effective at inactivating viruses.

Fols has also installed touchless hand sanitizers on eight of Bay Transit’s buses. “We want to test their durability first,” Fols said. “If they hold up well, we will install them in the rest of the buses…