Seeing the city through their eyes reveals us at our best and our worst. These classic, Old Look buses are easily recognized by their high, 6-paned windshields. This green-and-white CTA bus is one of a fleet of about 1400 Twin Coach propane buses, manufactured by the Fageol, later Flxible, bus company. On Friday, Elsie Sessions said her husband, a CTA worker whom she did not want to identify, was recently hospitalized. Train operators, bus drivers, and station agents are the heart of Chicago’s circulatory system. Daley driving the first spike, Congress Expressway rapid transit line, Chicago, 1955. “When there’s anything that can happen to us?”
“I mean, what are we supposed to do out here when you’re robbed at gunpoint?” Daniels said. When a reporter asked for members who were victims of attacks to speak at the rally, Hill responded, “You’re looking at a whole group of people who has been assaulted.”Ĭordell Daniels said he was robbed at gunpoint in 2016 while eating lunch as a bus driver. CTA bus driver Nina McIntosh and her five-year-old daughter, Taliyah, kneel at the corner of East Washington Street and North Michigan Avenue during a march to bring awareness to assaults on bus. The number of assaults that led to hospitalizations was 44 in 2019, 54 in 2020 and 38 so far this year - a finding Hill said is unfair because the union figures include violence against members that doesn’t require hospitalization but still interferes with the job. Hill said the recent injuries also appear to be more serious.ĬTA spokesman Brian Steele said the agency’s data do not show attacks against operators have “skyrocketed,” however.
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In 2020, when the pandemic kept many at home, that number was about 150, and in 2019 it was under 300. CTA bus drivers say when riders dont wear masks, its the drivers who are at risk. The union’s internal numbers on assaults against CTA rail and bus operators have more than doubled from last year, reaching close to 400, Hill said. CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO)- A South Side man who was seen in a widely-circulated cellphone video being body-slammed to the pavement by a CTA bus driver is telling his side of the story, as his lawyers prepare to file a lawsuit. Local News CTA Bus Drivers Protest For Increased Safety, Call Attacks On CTA Employees 'Out Of Control' Decem/ 7:11 PM / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) - More than 100 Transit.
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