Metra Employee Attacked By Passenger
Palos Park police responded to a call for help when a passenger attacked a Metra employee Monday, police say.
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Palos Park police responded to a call for help when a passenger attacked a Metra employee Monday, police say.
An overnight ice storm has left thousands without power and is affecting the morning commute.
Metra is offering free rides to passengers this weekend on all service lines as a way to "boost weekend ridership" and give passengers a "pat on the back for coping with last week's extreme cold," Metra said in a press release.
A person was struck and killed by a freight train early Monday morning in west suburban Villa Park, leading to significant delays on the Metra Union Pacific-West line.
Metra is adding trains that will run directly between Blue Island and McCormick Place on weekends during the Chicago Auto Show.
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Service for the entire Metra Electric Line will resume Monday, but trains will run on a modified weekday schedule.
Inbound and Outbound trains have been halted on the UP North line as officials respond to this incident.
Metra users are used to alerts after a week full of weather-related schedule changes, but commuters will start hearing a new message that might cause some confusion, and has nothing to do with the weather.
The record-setting cold snap gripping Chicago has prompted Metra to suspend service on the Metra Electric line until further notice, and several other Metra lines are experiencing delays in the frigid weather.
It's been a chaotic morning for many commuters, as the extreme cold has caused trouble for CTA, Metra, and South Shore Line trains alike.
With temperatures expected to be below zero all day on Wednesday, both Metra and the South Shore Line will operate modified schedules.
Metra will operate a modified schedule Wednesday to help deal with extreme cold temperatures.
The deep freeze Chicagoans are waking up to can be tough on one of the busiest commuter rail lines in the country. Metra warned riders trains are running a little slow this morning to reduce stress on the tracks.
Metra says it was a rotten beam that gave way and came crashing down on a commuter between tracks five and seven at Union Station Tuesday. It sent one man to the hospital.
Metra's citizen advisory board will discuss malfunctioning crossing gates in south suburban Mokena, after several near misses in November.
Metra has halted Union Pacific-West trains near Lombard, and riders were being urged to take another train route, after a person was hit by a freight train Thursday morning.
Metra officials say a the problem was more significant than first thought after a safety bar separating traffic from an oncoming train in Mokena malfunctioned for hours.
Metra officials say there were multiple near-hits between cars and trains on Nov. 9 after an engineer failed to report the first incident.
"So we picked the old lady up and we got to the sidewalk just as the guardrails were going down. Probably about five to 10 seconds later that's when the train hit the car."
A driver was saved from a vehicle on the tracks before it was struck by a Metra train near Grace Street in Lombard Monday night, Lombard officials confirm.
Crews are working to upright derailed train cars, that halted the Metra Heritage Corridor Line Monday morning.
Metra has canceled morning service on the Heritage Corridor, after a freight train derailed in southwest suburban Willow Springs, blocking the tracks.
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A Metra train nearly hit at least three cars at a crossing in south suburban Mokena last month, after the crossing gates failed to warn drivers of the oncoming train.
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