This has been my experience. We do not own a car, so my household still relies on transit for our uses, and our use of transit is way down simply because there

This has been my experience. We do not own a car, so my household still relies on transit for our uses, and our use of transit is way down simply because there's nowhere to go. I don't need to commute to work, we refuse to go sit in a poorly-ventilated restaurant just for grins, and virtually all of our regular needs are met by walking to them. When we do ride the bus (as there's no light rail to our neighborhood yet), it's to a park. King County Metro, the public transit agency serving Seattle, has been cleaning its buses a lot more often and requiring mask use[0] for almost the whole pandemic. On the routes we use, I've noticed near-100% mask compliance and the buses are cleaner than I've seen them in a decade. I feel safer on a Metro bus than I do in a grocery store, where store employees are (with reason) fearful of confronting people who flout the mask rules and customers are incapable of following one way signs on the floors and aisles. Yet in our mixed-use apartment complex, where residential is built above ground-floor restaurant and retail, the restaurants have been permitted by the landlord to put far more tables outside. (This is privately-owned land, so not on the public sidewalk.) This makes it impossible to walk through our complex and stay separated from diners, unmasked of course since it's hard to eat a mask on, talking and laughing. Yet we're all outside and the contact time is brief, so I've not said anything to the landlord because the risk is low and the restaurants need the income. I wish, and hope, that our transit agencies will step up their marketing and outreach efforts to tell people what they're doing and why transit is safe. Because we have neither the space nor the plant environment for more cars and more trips by car. 0 - Until recently, Metro has not been actively enforcing this requirement but, starting this month, Metro "Health Ambassadors" are at transit centers, major transfer points, and riding on buses to hand out masks and "educate and remind" people of the mask requirement in all public places, per the Governor's rule.