{"id":"MET-CHI-050","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Chicago Transit Authority service area (Chicago and 35 suburbs)","state":"IL","metro":"CHI","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chicago Transit Authority, in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Public Health","authority":"CTA operating authority (Metropolitan Transit Authority Act, 70 ILCS 3605); masks compelled by the Governor\u0027s Executive Order 2020-32 (May 1, 2020) and, from Feb. 1, 2021, the CDC conveyance order and TSA directives","instrument":"CTA coronavirus operating rules: passenger capacity limits, rear-door boarding, mask requirement (agency page as archived June 2, 2020)","title":"CTA - Coronavirus (COVID-19) information: service, capacity limits, rear-door boarding, masks","dateIssued":"2020-06-02","effective":"Rear-door boarding from spring 2020; capacity standards from Phase 3 (June 2020); masks per State order 2020-32 from May 1, 2020","end":"Capacity standards remained on the page through at least Mar. 4, 2021 (captures); masks compelled through Q3 2021 by State and federal mandates","startDate":"2020-05-01","endDate":"2021-03-04","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["CAP","MASK","TRAV"],"addressees":["CTA bus and rail riders"],"clause":"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\u0027s 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 (\u0027riders are encouraged to follow the capacity limits\u0027); the mask rule carried the force of the State executive order and later the federal order","functions":["WF workforce commuting capacity into the Loop and job sites","CB customer travel","TR"],"notes":"Graded as the agency\u0027s 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","sourceUrl":"https://www.transitchicago.com/coronavirus/","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200602014456/https://www.transitchicago.com/coronavirus/","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":371903,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-CHI","url":"/library/MET-CHI-050","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-CHI-050","citation":"Chicago Transit Authority, in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Public Health, CTA coronavirus operating rules: passenger capacity limits, rear-door boarding, mask requirement (agency page as archived June 2, 2020) (Ex. MET-CHI-050)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["MET-CHI-051","MET-CHI-061"]}