CTA Brown Line train evacuated downtown to power outage

Dorval Carter Jr. was just given a 33% raise to $350,000/​yr for his "Rockstar" performance as president of the CTA.

I was on this train! It was insanity. The only reason I was on it was because the blue line was shut down and I thought I’d be smart by taking brown line then hopping on a bus going west. I picked the wrong choice

Isn’t this the second time this has happened recently? tf

Even getting home on the blue line tonight was, by a mile, the worst experience I've ever had on the CTA, operations wise. A full hour of waiting in a sea of people, having to watch 5 trains going by totally packed, across 3 stations downtown, only barely making it onto one myself then watching the exasperation of those at the next station who would still have to wait even longer than I did. Like, what am I even paying for with the CTA? I live where I live because I expect to avoid this feeling of futility and helplessness.

I was on the train and had to walk across the bridge after evacuating. Me and other passengers absolutely felt this had to do with the conductors speed while turning. It was the hardest turn I’ve ever felt on the northbound brown line. We saw sparks and smoke right when the turn happened.

I was down in the Red line subway after giving up on the elevated and busses (2 fun trips around the loop on the Purple) and chatted with a CTA operator who I will not identify in any meaningful way due to what they said, they told me that operators have been aware of "gapping" issues at this part of the outer track for months now, and that they thought the operator who got stuck was trying to rush through the turn to avoid gapping by just going too fast to gap.
What this says to me is that front-line staff are well aware of what the issue is, where it is, and leadership is not taking enough accountability to make sure it gets fixed, so front-line staff are just trying to avoid it because they know it won't be fixed soon.
IMO, this was preventable and CTA needs more oversight given that this was able to get so bad that it caused tonight's fiasco.

I'm 8 mo pregnant and today I am thankful as heck I didn't take the train, just saying. The thought of having to scamper my pregnant self out on some rickety ass tracks sounds harrowing. Kiddos to those of who who made it through, the CTA should buy you all like drink tickets or something.

The announcement at Fullerton made it sound like I could still ride the brown line train to Western but then none ever showed up. I finally went to the bus stop, waited for 30 minutes or so as it kept telling me the bus was "two minutes" away.

Sounds like we need more police on the trains. /s

I was on the train stuck behind this one and it was mayhem. Everyone flooded the red line and it was at Lollapalooza levels of crowded.