  {"id":124955,"date":"2020-08-11T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=124955"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:52:59","slug":"commuter-services-health-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/commuter-services-health-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Services revs up health and safety practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_124975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124975\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-office-cleaning.jpg\" alt=\"Man disinfecting a desk\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-office-cleaning.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-office-cleaning-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-office-cleaning-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking Office at <abbr>QLC<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note, August 13, 2020<\/strong>: The Rainbow Shuttle service has been cancelled as of August 12, 2020. The story has been updated to reflect this change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the return of students, faculty and staff to the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> campus this fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/commuter\/\">Commuter Services<\/a> has enhanced cleaning procedures due to COVID-19. High touchpoint areas including parking structure elevators, stair rails and pay-to-park machines will be sanitized more frequently. In addition, <!--the Rainbow Shuttle and -->the parking office will also be cleaned repeatedly throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is our priority to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, riders and our guests,&rdquo; said <strong>Cate Matsushima<\/strong>, commuter and fleet services manager. &ldquo;We have stepped up our cleaning efforts on areas and surfaces where we see high traffic or volumes of people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124978\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-elevator-cleaning.jpg\" alt=\"Man spraying an elevator\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-elevator-cleaning.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-elevator-cleaning-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-commuter-elevator-cleaning-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking structure elevator cleaning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elevators in the parking structure will be cleaned at least twice a day, while other areas will be frequently cleaned and wiped down. <!--Rainbow Shuttle vendor E Noa Corp. will spray disinfectant on shuttle seats and wipe down hand railings each time they make a stop at Varney Circle. All shuttles will have hand sanitizer available for riders and protective dividers have been installed. --><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the parking office located at the Queen <span aria-label=\"Liliuokalani\">Lili&#699;uokalani<\/span> Center for Student Services has implemented enhanced health and safety measures, including encouraging the use of virtual services such as online citation payment, and mailing permits to students with <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> addresses. There is also a touchless service of placing an <abbr>ID<\/abbr>\/credit card into a container for processing, and frequently wiping down high touchpoint surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Guests must adhere to COVID-19 prevention health and safety standards, including wearing face coverings, practicing physical distancing by standing six feet apart while waiting in line, and following the guidance of the Diamond Parking guest greeter. In addition, hand sanitizer is available at the parking office and student distribution location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning efforts have been increased in areas and on surfaces where there is high traffic or volumes of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1139,1411,1416,9],"class_list":["post-124955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-commuter-services","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125069,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124955\/revisions\/125069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}