CTA train operator pushed onto tracks at North Side Red Line stop; safety questioned

CTA tweeted about 8:40 p.m. that Ninety fifth-bound Purple Line trains had been standing at Granville in Chicago’s North Aspect Edgewater neighborhood as a consequence of an injured practice operator. Chicago police stated the male operator was about to renew service southbound when a girl requested him to assist retrieve a cellphone that had fallen on the tracks.

He received off the practice to assist, and as he regarded on the tracks, he was pushed from behind onto them, police stated.
The operator didn’t make contact with the electrified third rail, CTA officers stated. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital for therapy in honest situation.

Safety guards doubled, extra Chicago police on CTA Blue Line, Purple Line trains amid crime spree

CTA is working with Chicago police to establish a suspect, officers stated.

Nobody is presently in custody.

Final month, officers stated violent crime on CTA trains was up 28%, prompting CPD to assign groups of officers to public transit.

“Extra” safety guards had been additionally assigned to trains and buses and deployed seven days per week.

Total in 2022, crime on all CTA autos has jumped 41%. Up to now on trains in 2022, there have been 102 reviews of theft, 89 reviews of battery, and 63 reviews of robberies, police stated.

Commuter Gunnar Sadowey stated he is simply bought a automobile to commute to his job in Edgewater, and is fed up with the Purple Line specifically.

“Simply a variety of sketchy characters and I imply, simply wish to stand away from individuals, and a variety of screaming and yelling and other people getting in your face,” he stated. “Commonplace Chicago public transportation stuff.”

CTA asserted that total it’s a very protected system, saying in a press release “Although yesterday’s incident was a really uncommon prevalence, we completely won’t tolerate anybody searching for to hurt our workers.”

The practice operators union says the reply is to carry again conductors which had been lower for budgetary causes within the late Nineteen Nineties.