Juneau could have kept its mask mandate for buses — as Seattle and Portland have — after the federal mandate ended. Denise Koch of the city’s public works department described dropping the mandate as part of moving toward 'a posture of living with COVID.'
On Tuesday morning, the City and Borough of Juneau announced that masks will no longer be required on public transportation like city buses or at Juneau International Airport.On Monday, a federal judge struck down the mask mandate for public transportation. O
The next day, the City and Borough of Juneau announced that it wouldn’t require masks on city buses anymore.At the downtown transit center a few hours after the announcement, tny riders were still wearing masks — some by choice and some because they hadn’t heard about the rule change.