Governor Charlie Baker has announced that the statewide travel ban has been lifted for Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties for local and I-91 traffic only, effective immediately. The travel ban remains in effect for the entire length of the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 90, and for Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties with only essential workers, healthcare and human service professionals and others specifically exempted, permitted to travel. The travel ban will be lifted based on road conditions and the advice of emergency response officials.

Governor Baker has signed an Executive Order allowing for the enforcement of a statewide travel ban effective at midnight. The following exceptions shall exist for the ban and all drivers are encouraged to remain safe and use their best judgment:

Essential emergency response professionals
Medical, healthcare and human service workers, including shelter personnel
Essential public transit and support workers
Public and private personnel supporting public works and utility operations
Essential state employees
Those traveling for essential medical procedures
Vehicles and personnel delivering essential supplies to healthcare facilities.

The travel ban will be lifted on a county by county basis as conditions allow, and exemptions to the travel ban are as follows:

Public safety vehicles, sworn and civilian public safety personnel, including those providing services at correctional facilities, and private sector security personnel
Public works vehicles and public works personnel, including contract personnel supporting public works operations
Public transportation vehicles and public transportation personnel, including contract personnel supporting public transportation operations
Government personnel conducting official business
Utility company vehicles and personnel, including contract personnel supporting utility response and restoration efforts
Personnel directly supporting storm response operations, including but not limited to emergency shelter personnel
Personnel supporting human services facilities, including but not limited to residential housing programs and human services shelter operations
Healthcare personnel, including home healthcare personnel and personal care assistants
Personnel delivering or supporting services at healthcare facilities, including those that provide long term care and mental health care, as well as hospitals and other healthcare facilities
Vehicles and personnel providing critical supplies to healthcare facilities, including those that provide long term care and mental health care, as well as hospitals and other healthcare facilities
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Private sector snow removal equipment engaged in, or traveling in connection with the removal or clearance of snow and ice from public or private sector facilities
Patients traveling for the purpose of receiving urgent critical care, and persons traveling with those patients who are necessary to facilitate that urgent critical care
Travel necessary to maintain critical private sector facilities, services and operations, and to deliver or support critical private sector services and supplies in critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, fuel, financial systems, and the provision of critical commodities
Travel to support business operations that provide critical services to the public, including gasoline stations, pharmacies, food stores and hardware stores   back...