Results tagged “theredline”

Friday, April 25:

The Red Line is going to be jacked this weekend. Southbound trains will be running on the elevated tracks between Cermack and Fullerton stops.[CTA]

... that things don't really seem to be as hellish as we thought they'd be for the first week of the "three-track man-we-just-don't-seem-to-do-anything-right operation" at CTA central. We asked you to report in on your first week experiences, and most of you seemed to think things weren't much different than the normal crapola we've dealt with in increasing intensity in the last year. We heard that there were some crowded platforms, some seemingly due...

Yesterday a man looking for the cell phone he'd just dropped was hit in the head by a Red Line train at the Sox/35th Street station. Details are a bit spotty, but apparently at around 10:40 p.m. Monday the man dropped his cell phone on the tracks and bent down to retrieve it when he was knocked unconscious by the train. Holy shit! Did he not look to see if a train was coming before he bent down? That's quite a sucker punch. Fortunately the man was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was in stable condition. He's expected to be released later today.