North Side Business Gearing Up For Fight With CTA Over Land Grab
The CTA has identified the roughly 20 buildings that will have to go to make room for a proposed bypass for the Red and Purple lines.
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The CTA has identified the roughly 20 buildings that will have to go to make room for a proposed bypass for the Red and Purple lines.
The CTA's Skokie Swift is turning 50 years old, and there's a party Saturday to mark the anniversary.
Five people were hurt after a vehicle hit a bus stop Tuesday night after a police chase in the Roseland neighborhood.
The CTA said its hundreds of security cameras have helped police make 60 vandalism arrests through the first three months of 2014 -- the same number of graffiti arrests as all of last year.
Ganaa Otgoo, 32, of the 1400 block of South Canal Street was charged with one count of aggravated battery for the March 28 attack, according to Skokie Police.
WBBM's Steve Miller has reaction from one of the areas that would be most affected.
Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) said he's not yet ready to embrace the CTA's plans to build elevated bypass tracks that would eliminate a traffic bottleneck for three of its rail lines – the Red, Brown, and Purple – and speed up rush hour trains on the North Side.
The CTA would have to acquire and tear down 16 buildings in the Lakeview neighborhood to make way for a $320 million rail bypass that would eliminate a longstanding bottleneck along the Red, Brown, and Purple lines.
The CTA says, contrary to published reports, it has NOT narrowed to two the list of potential routes for a Red Line extension to 130th Street. Nor is it in a position to move ahead with construction.
Starting as early as 2017, the CTA plans to rebuild four stations and replace track and elevated structures on the north part of the Red Line.
Nine people were hurt when a van went through a red light and struck a CTA bus Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side.
Five CTA current and former employees have sued the agency, claiming it placed hidden cameras in an area used as a changing room at a station on the Green Line, and recorded them undressing last year.
A southbound Blue Line train leaving the Cicero station hit an automobile tire that was on the tracks about 7:45 p.m., CTA spokesman Brian Steele said. No injuries were reported.
Studying subway maps around the world results in one conclusion: Chicago's subway design sucks.
NTSB officials had previously said the train's operator, Brittney Haywood, admitted falling asleep at the controls as the train was pulling into the O'Hare station, but that automated systems in place were designed to stop the train if she did not hit the brakes.
CTA officials were taking steps to fire the train operator who fell asleep at the controls of a Blue Line train before it crashed at O'Hare International Airport last month.
A customer alert that was posted Thursday afternoon on the CTA website said Red Line trains would bypass Addison northbound between 10:50 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Friday, despite the 1:20 p.m. Opening Day start.
A TSA worker who helped save a woman who fell onto a set of subway tracks on Wednesday downplayed his decision to jump in front of a moving CTA Blue Line train.
It has been smooth sailing so far for the reopened CTA station at O'Hare International Airport, after Blue Line trains got their major test since a derailment and crash one week ago.
The CTA's worker union says the sleeping operator whose train crashed at O'Hare on Monday had worked 69 hours the previous week -- a claim the transit agency denies. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
The station has been closed since early Monday, when a Blue Line train derailed and smashed into an escalator at the end of the platform, injuring 37 people.
CTA officials have removed damaged train cars from the escalator and platform at O'Hare International Airport, and hope to reopen the station by this weekend, following a Blue Line derailment that injured more than 30 people earlier this week.
Federal investigators said the woman who was operating the Blue Line that crashed at O'Hare International Airport on Monday admitted she dozed off before the crash, and didn't wake up until it derailed and slammed into an escalator.
Federal investigators said an automated braking system known as a "track trip" activated just before a CTA Blue Line train derailed at O'Hare International Airport and plowed into an escalator, but it's not clear if the system applied the brakes as quickly as it should.
NTSB investigators combed Monday's scene after just finishing a probe into another CTA train crash September 2013. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
