CTA Yellow Line Could Be Out Of Service For Weeks

By Rachel Cromidas in News on May 20, 2015 4:35PM

The public transit link between Chicago and Skokie could be out of commission for weeks, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District officials say.

Service to the CTA's Yellow Line has been suspended since Sunday, when a construction accident caused an embankment near the Yellow Line tracks over the McCormick Boulevard Viaduct to collapse.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District told CBS that it will take "several weeks" to fully repair the damage, which has been pinned to a MWRD construction project at the O'Brien Water Reclamation Plant. The CTA has been operating free shuttle buses between the Dempster-Skokie, Oakton-Skokie and Howard Yellow Line stations. The #97 Skokie bus also stops between those stations.

The Yellow Line has the lowest ridership numbers of all the CTA's train lines, according to the Tribune, with about 2,900 passengers using the trains on average during the weekday.