The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Chicago Transit Authority service area (Chicago and 35 suburbs) · Chicago · Illinois
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- CTA operating authority (Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, 70 ILCS 3605); masks compelled by the Governor's Executive Order 2020-32 (May 1, 2020) and, from Feb. 1, 2021, the CDC conveyance order and TSA directives
- Issued
- 2020-06-02 June 2, 2020
- Effective
- Rear-door boarding from spring 2020; capacity standards from Phase 3 (June 2020); masks per State order 2020-32 from May 1, 2020 (read as 2020-05-01)
- End
- Capacity standards remained on the page through at least Mar. 4, 2021 (captures); masks compelled through Q3 2021 by State and federal mandates (read as 2021-03-04)
- In force
- May 1, 2020 to Mar. 4, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- Functions reached
- WF workforce commuting capacity into the Loop and job sites
- CB customer travel
- TR
- Collection
- Chicago MET-CHI
Operative words
CTA in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Public Health established a passenger capacity limit on buses and train cars that will allow social distancing to continue in a reasonable manner on CTA service... the CTA's vehicle passenger standards are approximately 15 riders on standard 40-foot buses and approximately 22 riders on 60-foot articulated buses and each train car.... Bus riders are to board and exit vehicles from the rear doors.... (per State order 2020-32) [masks required]
Enforcement
Agency operating standards ('riders are encouraged to follow the capacity limits'); the mask rule carried the force of the State executive order and later the federal order
Notes
Graded as the agency's own statement of its rules; the capacity figures are operating standards, not health-officer orders, and are pleaded as facts and circumstances of how the State and City orders operated on the transit system
Retrieval noteHeadless Edge could not reach web.archive.org in this session; The page also records that all CTA service was suspended from 9:30 p.m. May 31 to 6:00 a.m. June 2, 2020 at the request of public safety officials (civil unrest, not COVID-19).