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Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 2:36PM
Brown Line service shut down after CTA worker injured
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CHICAGO (STNG) -- Power has been cut off to the CTA Brown Line tracks between the Loop and Fullerton on the North Side after an incident in the River North area in which at least one CTA employee was injured.
Initial reports were that an employee was injured, CTA spokeswoman Katelyn Thrall said. Details of the incident were not immediately available.
Power has been shut off to to the tracks in both directions between Fullerton and the Loop, and the CTA is setting up a shuttle bus service to serve all Brown Line stations, Thrall said.
For the time being, Brown Line trains will run in the Red Line subway between Fullerton and Roosevelt, making all Red Line stops, she said. Brown Line trains which were in the Loop at the time of the power outage will continue running around the Loop only, she said.
There was no estimate for how long the situation would continue, she said.
According to unconfirmed dispatch reports a CTA employee may have been struck by a live wire and the tracks were briefly on fire.
Fire crews are at the scene and so far one person has been taken to a hospital, but further details were not immediately available.
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