Transport NSW has arranged for additional COVID-19 cleaning squads to ramp up cleaning services at key transport hubs across the Sydney CBD.
Minister for Transport and Roads, Andrew Constance said the roving teams were cleaning high touch points at five key locations and handing out masks to commuters.
“In addition to the cleaners on our services, we have now rolled out additional cleaning squads to keep stops, waiting areas and even bike racks clean to help stop the spread of COVID-19,” Mr Constance said.
“More than 1,000 touch points are cleaned each shift at Central, Town Hall, Wynyard, Circular Quay and Martin Place,” he said.
“And more than 92,000 masks have been handed out to customers since the squads first popped up during the Northern Beaches outbreak.”
Mr Constance said the teams could be deployed quickly to areas where there’d been a COVID-19 breakout or where a major event was taking place, like the SCG during the cricket.
Acting Deputy Secretary for Greater Sydney at Transport for NSW, Howard Collins said the 1,200 extra summer transport services, introduced in early December, would continue until at least the end of March.
“The extra summer services will be extended to help commuters stay safe as they continue to return to the CBD,” Mr Collins said.
“More than 4,500 extra services are now running across the network in response to COVID-19,” he said.
Mr Collins said the roving cleaning teams were in addition to the cleaners on transport services, who had carried out an additional 1.7 million hours of cleaning across the public transport network since March of last year.
