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Kevin Pearson
"These social issues that are a little outside of the transportation realm sometimes don't make us look very good at all," said CTA President Dorval Carter raising questions around the correlation between less busy ridership hours and crime on the CTA.
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10:12 AM Sep 11, 2024 CDT
The public is voicing their concerns of CTA bus service. Some concerns mention are elevators, emergency buttons and locations of bus stops.
CTA officials gave update on the CTA employee who was shot near North side Red Line station. “He is recovering in the hospital” nbcchicago.com/news/local/cta…
nbcchicago.com/news/local/cta…
CTA officials recognize CTA employees for their work in the 2024 DNC.
Representative from Argonne National Laboratory gave a presentation on how to improve transit service in Chicago. anl.gov/article/argonn…
anl.gov/article/argonn…
Officials also acknowledged the victims who died Labor Day weekend. cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/ne…
cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/ne…
CTA president raised questions on how can they balance crimes that happen on overnight service. Saying that criminals are most likely to commit crimes when less riders are on the bus or train.
CTA president requested data on crimes happening on CTA service overnight plus data on overnight ridership.
CTA board members have voted unanimously to go into executive session at 11:17 am.
Correction: CTA board member Lester L Barclay raised this question not CTA board president.
The board returned to the regular meeting. All items voted on were passed. Please find link to agenda here transitchicago.com/assets/1/21/Se…
transitchicago.com/assets/1/21/Se…
Meeting adjourned at 12:27 pm. Link to full CTA board meeting Sep. 11th 2024.