Even With Cops Present, Drivers And Pedestrians Try To Beat Trains At Crossings
When it comes to train crossings, Metra says close calls happen way too often. On Thursday, police set up stings to stop them. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports.
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When it comes to train crossings, Metra says close calls happen way too often. On Thursday, police set up stings to stop them. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports.
Train traffic on the Metra Union Pacific Line to and from the western suburbs was halted this morning, after electrical wires fell across the tracks.
The executive inspector general of the State of Illinois is about to gain oversight power over Chicago area transit agencies.
Starting today, all the lines in the Metra commuter rail system will introduce "quiet cars" on their trains.
An Amtrak train hit a Metra commuter train Friday morning at Union Station, sending as many as 12 people to area hospitals.
Naperville and Metra police continued to investigate the apparent suicide of a man who stepped in front of a speeding freight train at Metra's Fourth Avenue station north of the city's downtown.
A 53-year-old Naperville woman remained hospitalized Tuesday evening after she apparently fell in front of a moving Metra train along the Naperville-Aurora border.
Metra trains on the Union Pacific / Northwest Line are moving again after a person was found near the tracks in northwest suburban Park Ridge.
Residents of a North Side condominium complex may try to derail the latest plan to rebuild a portion of Metra's Union Pacific North line.
Metra says its test of "quiet cars" has been so successful the rail agency will roll them out on all of its rush-hour trains.
Metra CEO Alex Clifford is weighing a plan to cut service and raise fares as early as July, to offset recent high fuel costs. Newsradio 780's Bob Roberts reports.
A Metra train crashed into a semi-trailer truck Friday morning in Mount Prospect, causing the truck to burst into flames.
Real-time arrival information is coming to a CTA bus shelter near you.
Metra wants to know if an attempted sabotage in 2007 was related to a al-Qaeda, with new information out that the terrorist agency was planning to target rail lines.
Chicago continues to step up security measures in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
A female coyote that looked "like Wile E. Coyote after a rough day with the Road Runner" was unharmed and taken into the care of the proper authorities after she was found trapped at a Metra station in the Loop Sunday morning.
A Metra train struck and killed a person in Des Plaines this morning, leading to projected delays estimated at an hour or more.
During a visit to Chicago, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood offered no federal commitments to help rebuild or expand the region's deteriorating transit system.
An autopsy Sunday determined the death of a man who was killed when a Metra train struck him in south suburban Hazel Crest was accidental.
A 44-year-old man was struck and killed by a Metra train in west suburban Wood Dale on Saturday.
The wife of a Joliet man struck and killed by a Metra train last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the rail agency and its partners.
Metra officials on Friday announced they're broadening an investigation into claims that a former rail agency employee tried to shake down a film production. 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports.
There are signs the gasoline price crisis may be making Chicago traffic jams a little easier to bear.
Rising gas prices have everyone thinking about the best way to get around. Public transportation is highly touted, but is it the smart way to go?
