The CTA board acknowledged safety concerns in a meeting Wednesday, but there are still questions over what to do to stem the tide.
CHICAGO -- calling on it to do more to ensure the safety of both passengers and employees.
"Imagine your vulnerability as a CTA bus driver pulling over in the dark of night and opening your door to anyone who cares to enter," Durbin said."We're going to work with them. It's not an adversarial situation. We want to be honest about dealing with this and if we can, at the federal level, the House and Senate come up with resources to supplement the efforts for safety on the CTA.
But are there other out-of-the-box solutions to the problem of safety on the CTA? On Wednesday, violence interrupters in partnership with a handful of private security firms offered their services to ride the Red Line trains from 95th Street into downtown, eight hours a day, during the work week.
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