A woman is suing the CTA, claiming she was beaten with a pipe on the Green Line when she couldn't get to the call button because it was blocked off.
The Sun-Times reports that the woman saw two youths, one carrying a lead pipe, enter her train car on Jan. 12, demanding money from another passenger. She "looked for the "panic button" -- an emergency call button in each train
car that allows passengers to talk with the train operator -- but the
area around the button was "barricaded, blocked and/or roped off,"
according to the suit."
The CTA had no comment because they hadn't seen the lawsuit.
Hat tip to Chicagoist.
Filed under: CTA in the news, CTA safety
Tags: crime, CTA, Green Line
Maybe it was roped off because the sleet fighter was being used.
Unless a chain link fence was around the area, just how do you block access to the button?
OK, someone might have piled boxes in front of it, but was a CTA employee or a passenger?
And rope it off is laughable, just push past the rope!
But the claim is that the button on the TRAIN was blocked off. The only clutter/blocking-like things I've ever seen on a train were luggage or bikes or homeless people's stuff. And even on a train, as Scooter Libby says, just push by whatever is blocking it - the space on the train is so tight I can't imagine not being able to reach over the obstacle. Train button broken maybe, but roped off??
Roped off? You've got to be kidding me. I've never EVER seen this before. Like most of you stated, it could have been blocked by a passenger.
People will sue for anything! And why NOT go after the actual person who attacked you? What about suing the other people on the train that watched her get attacked?
Get real.