'On days where events are happening, where I can't drive, I pay a little extra money for Uber if I can, just to avoid the Red Line.'
Eight people have been attacked on the CTA over the past ten days and it's unnerving riders, who were already reluctant to use the train.
CBS 2's Tim McNicholas reports from the Roosevelt Red Line stop, where one of the attacks happened at that station hours ago. Four men with a knife attacked and robbed a man on an elevator early Wednesday morning. Every Red Line rider CBS 2 talked to said they feel CTA crime is getting worse. CBS 2 wanted to look into that.
A look at the number of assaults, batteries and robberies through the end of April compared to that same time frame before the pandemic in 2019.Batteries, when someone is physically hurt and includes stabbings and shootings: 86 in 2019 and 124 so far this year."On days where events are happening, where I can't drive, I pay a little extra money for Uber if I can, just to avoid the Red Line," said Byron Odell. Because, I mean, you wanna be able to make it to work.
In regards to the robbery that took place Wednesday morning, CPD said a 16-year-old was charged with robbery and questioning another person in connection with the incident.