As people head back to work following the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Yellow Line service remains suspended, more than a week after the Nov. 16 crash near the Howard station that injured 38 people and has spurred several lawsuits.
A reopening date for the line — which normally serves about 1,500 people every weekday — hasn’t been given. The Yellow Line will remain suspended until further notice, the CTA said in a statement Monday morning.
Shuttle bus service is available between the Howard and Dempster-Skokie stations until the train line reopens.
Fire and paramedic crews work to clear the area near the site of a CTA train collision in Rogers Park on Nov. 16. Thirty-eight people were injured.
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Authorities say a southbound Yellow Line train was going nearly 30 mph when it struck a snow plow being used to train CTA employees. Three people were critically hurt.
During a news briefing Nov. 17, National Transportation Safety Board chairperson Jennifer Homendy said she hoped the line would be open five days from the incident, when she expected federal investigators to be done documenting the scene. Officials with the agency said investigators had finished their work Wednesday.
