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3/12/2021



Rail News: Passenger Rail

Valley Metro workers prioritized for COVID-19 vaccines


In July 2020, Valley Metro workers distributed face masks to riders.
Photo – Valley Metro/Flickr

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Valley Metro’s essential transit workers are now prioritized to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health will give the workers a single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine March 12-14. There are approximately 4,000 frontline transit workers who serve metro Phoenix communities.

The event is open to such transit personnel as light-rail, bus and paratransit workers, as well as U.S. Postal Service employees. 

Transit workers are employed by Valley Metro, the city of Phoenix and a dozen contracted firms, including First Transit, Transdev, Alternate Concepts, Inc., Allied Universal and DMS Facility Services.