Results tagged “movingbeyondcongestion”

You might remember that little incident on July 11, 2006, when the Blue Line train derailed, shutting off power and starting a fire? A CBS2 story reveals that 65 survivors (didn't everyone survive?) sued the CTA for negligence and that a judge determined that the CTA was at fault. However, the lawyers are now prevented from further investigating the accident. “I suspect there are some significant, long-term ongoing problems down there,” attorney Dan Kotin said....

Well, it's been an interesting couple weeks for CTA watchers. We won't touch another argument about operating budgets with a ten-foot pole, but there really have been a lot of interesting, hilarious, and downright upsetting news regarding the agency lately. Really, the best (and worst) has been the RTA movie snafu. A rather embarassed head of the Regional Transit Authority apologized today for a video that was shown to Metra officials last week that was...