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The train I take to work hit & killed someone today.

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I actually wasn't on the train since I'm working from home today but it's blocked traffic up here all morning and is on the news and stuff.

It's sad but I think this is the 4th or 5th pedestrian that's been killed by Chicago commuter trains this year.  Honestly, why on earth would you try to beat a train? There is always another train coming and I'd rather be late than dead.

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  • hippotreehippotree member
    The line I used to ride into DC did that a lot.  It's known as the suicide line.  :(
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    The line I used to ride into DC did that a lot.  It's known as the suicide line.  :(

    Oh my gosh.  How morbid!

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    How awful.

    I don't get the mindset that you can beat a train either. At least once a year someone tries to out drive the fair train and get hit.

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  • ExcitedtostartExcitedtostart member
    That's terrible! I've been on subways before when someone jumped in front of them. Terrible. Sad
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  • robinsokjrobinsokj member
    Holy crap
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  • Mrs_LibertoMrs_Liberto member
    Oh man, another one? UPNL has had at least a half dozen casualties that I can remember this year alone. 2010 was one of the most deadly on record. :(
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  • ohashletohashlet member
    Does your train look like the one in Source Code?
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  • Mrs_LibertoMrs_Liberto member

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    Does your train look like the one in Source Code?

    DH and I actually just watched this movie last night and laughed our asses off. We're pretty sure none of the Metra (Chicagoland commuter rail) trains are as nice as the one in Source Code. 

    And also, the geography in that movie was ridiculously wrong. 

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    imageMrs_Liberto:

    imageohashlet:
    Does your train look like the one in Source Code?

    DH and I actually just watched this movie last night and laughed our asses off. We're pretty sure none of the Metra (Chicagoland commuter rail) trains are as nice as the one in Source Code. 

    And also, the geography in that movie was ridiculously wrong. 

    This, lol.  Some of the Metra cars are like a time warp to the 70's with their burnt orange pleather seats.  Blech.

    And lib, my mom was on one of the UPNL trains that hit someone this summer I think? I normally am on the Milwaukee NL out of Lake Forest but sometimes take the one that hit today, which is the North Central line.  A couple months ago it was at this exact station that a women sprinted across the tracks right before the train arrived.  She didn't get hit, but the conducter called the Metra cops and hauled her off the train and gave her a huge ticket.  The whole time she was yelling and screaming at him.  It was so bizarre.

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    imageValentineBB:
    imageMrs_Liberto:

    imageohashlet:
    Does your train look like the one in Source Code?

    DH and I actually just watched this movie last night and laughed our asses off. We're pretty sure none of the Metra (Chicagoland commuter rail) trains are as nice as the one in Source Code. 

    And also, the geography in that movie was ridiculously wrong. 

    This, lol.  Some of the Metra cars are like a time warp to the 70's with their burnt orange pleather seats.  Blech.

    And lib, my mom was on one of the UPNL trains that hit someone this summer I think? I normally am on the Milwaukee NL out of Lake Forest but sometimes take the one that hit today, which is the North Central line.  A couple months ago it was at this exact station that a women sprinted across the tracks right before the train arrived.  She didn't get hit, but the conducter called the Metra cops and hauled her off the train and gave her a huge ticket.  The whole time she was yelling and screaming at him.  It was so bizarre.

    Yeah, I take the UPNL and we've had delays more than a few times this summer for "pedestrian incidents". One involved an elderly man who waltzed out on to the tracks and just sat down cross legged and waited for the train to plow him down. :( There were a couple hundred people on the platform at Wilmette when that one happened and it was awful.

    Do you remember my FB status message from earlier this year when some idiot college student ran across the tracks so close to the train that all of us waiting for the train turned around and hid our eyes? We all thought she was going to get hit. She got kicked off and fined, too, but I really wish there were tougher consequences. This happens all too often. 

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