That Didn't Take Long
The CTA is still cutting the derailed train into pieces and the lawsuits are already flying:
- How safe is the design of the CTA’s O’Hare Blue Line station if a train was able to vault the tracks and climb an escalator at one of the busiest airports in the world?
That’s among the questions at least one attorney said he will be trying to answer as he pursues one of three negligence lawsuits filed Tuesday against the CTA involving Monday’s Blue Line crash.
The station has only been in existence for 25 or more years without incident - it MUST be a design flaw! What would we do without lawyers?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
42 Comments:
Actually, to answer your question, our society and economy would do rather poorly without our lawyers. Why do you thing we are the world's greatest economy and superpower? Because we have the world's best lawyers and a lot of them. God Bless the American Lawyer.
Without lawyers there would be a stable economic system and a cure for cancer. Have you seen some of the shyster, ambulance chasing lawyer commercials lately. They are truly shameless. It makes me ill just thinking about them.
..and to all you "I am the good kind of lawyer" types that will jump in here: You sit back and let them get away with it. So you are part of the problem too.
I don't know which is worse, a scum sucking lawyer or a welfare sucking leech.
Lawyers are such whites.
No keeses for them.
It's like the old TV quiz program-"Anything for Money"
Watched the news had a 22 year old girl link card holder saying she was riding the train now her back hurts, she was treated given "some big ibuprofens" not an overnight in hospital another ghetto lottery winner.
Pimps, lawyers are nothing but pimps.
She sleep and then train go Boom Boom.
Sell that BS to China who makes your computer, pencils, pens, law books, operating software, etc.
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Actually, to answer your question, our society and economy would do rather poorly without our lawyers. Why do you thing we are the world's greatest economy and superpower? Because we have the world's best lawyers and a lot of them. God Bless the American Lawyer.
its an accident thank goodness no got hurt!! but unfortunately caused by human error.....a few days suspension and maybe some counseling or rehabb
Bet the train operator was texting on her phone.
If you haven't seen it check out the video on liveleak.com of the train coming up the escalator. Unbelievable that it didn't turn out much worse.
John Gotti said prior to his death that he wished he had killed every lawyer. He had a point.
MS
Lawyers are at the bottom of the food chain you idiot. Go back to your mommas basement pond scum. Super power, yeah right. Not with this paper tiger at the helm.
The engineer fell asleep and didn't stop the train. That could, and does, happen to anyone. There should have been a failsafe mechanism to guard against that happening and stop the train. There wasn't
Heard on the radio this morning the union rep already throwing the train operator under the proverbial bus. Hangin' her out to dry and take the fall.
Saw the video. Kinda surreal.
Anonymous said...
Bet the train operator was texting on her phone.
3/26/2014 10:22:00 AM
Wrong, she admitted she fell asleep. She also fell asleep last month and failed to make a stop at a train station. (given a warning)
Anonymous said...
The engineer fell asleep and didn't stop the train. That could, and does, happen to anyone. There should have been a failsafe mechanism to guard against that happening and stop the train. There wasn't
3/26/2014 12:05:00 PM
There was and it did attempt to stop the train when it was about 25 feet away from the bumper. She was going way too fast and not applying the brake. Momentum ran the train up the stairs!
Is there still time to say I was on the train and get in on the lawsuits ? There has to be a deadman throttle on those CTA trains. Can a CTA motorman chime in here ? Makes no sense.
Actually, to answer your question, our society and economy would do rather poorly without our lawyers. Why do you thing we are the world's greatest economy and.....Gee I don't know wiz kid "why do we thing" or is that think like you didn't ??
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The engineer fell asleep and didn't stop the train. That could, and does, happen to anyone. There should have been a failsafe mechanism to guard against that happening and stop the train. There wasn't
3/26/2014 12:05:00 PM
There was. It failed. That's the place the suits will start.
Driver already gave her statement that she nodded off and didn't wake up til the train climbed the escalator. btw; the failed failsafe should have stopped the train. It was not going faster than recommended speed as it entered the station.
The operator had only been on the job since Feb. and this is the second time she has fallen asleep in the cab. I'll bet it's the last time. She is still on probation so unless she has some pretty strong political suction she is gone.
Lawyers make this nation a safer place for all. Not police officers. Gotta love this liberal system of ours.
Come to Mexico City and try to sue....you be lucky to get a fucking torta or 10 pesos. You might get free taxi ride home after the incident and like it.Oh, thats if you live.
what are the results from blood test , if they didn't draw blood , get a hair sample asap.
lawyers,cops,mechanics...all the same.people hate them until they ACTUALLY need one. get charged with a Crime you didn't do and see how far you can navigate the legal system on your own without a GOOD attorney.
The engineer fell asleep and didn't stop the train. That could, and does, happen to anyone. There should have been a failsafe mechanism to guard against that happening and stop the train. There wasn't
Watch the news reports and read the papers before you start talking something you know nothing about. There was a switch,failsafe mechanism, and the NTSB said they were investigating why it failed.
Interesting the way they're protecting Sleepyhead's identity.
$6 million or more damage done in two months' employment.
"Currently, the identity of the female train operator who derailed the Blue Line Monday is unknown..."
Does that mean that the CTA doesn't know who she is?
FYI, The first unit on the scene was from PTS, so doubt they will be be disbanning them anytime soon.
BTW who is the female Sgt. from PTS that night?
Design flaw my ass. Unless you have a mountainside as the endpoint, whenever you have a train going at a decent rate of speed - no matter what it hits, it's going to fuck things up.
If you think that those little metal bumpers at the end of the track are going to stop anything, you're high.
Look at Olgivie Station - what do you think would happen if some train came whipping in there at 30-50MPH? You think it wouldn't crash through the end, go through the revolving doors and DOWN the escalators?
Design flaw... WTF. The flaw is a management one - in that you had a sleepy engineer who never should have been allowed to work ANY overtime at all.
The Black and Blue Line
This will be the money train for some. Law suits filed within 48 hours of the incident. We are getting good at this.
Design flaw?
No, this is called "we need to get as many pocket-fulls of money sitting in the defendants' section as possible."
Because each one will bring along an insurer or three, who are all together going to have to finance the lawyers for their insured defendants for this entire fight.
Plus, (even though each insurer individually won't be interested in paying out what it would take to settle this lawsuit), when you get six or ten or so insurers' hired lawyers in court for each of hundreds of boring and pointless Motions To Nowhere plus a few holy-shite!! gotta-win court arguments, and they all pool their settlement authority pittances together, they find that five Pittances in a pile really can sometimes make people bark like a dog and settle.
Oh, btw:
Design flaw?
The station design - the steep, long stair climb facing the oncoming track - very effectively stopped the out-of-control train while it was still within the station, and stopped it in a manner far more gentle than a massive concrete barrier would have (meaning, equipment is not as badly damaged, and passengers get a less forceful, more forgiving stop.)
(For about $150, they should get a radar gun with an alarm that goes off when a train hits some spot going too fast.)
The O'Hare station opened in Sept 1984. It is in its 30th year of operation. The problem isn't the track or station design. But there is a problem with the speed that is allowed to be going as you pull into the station.
I like the union official sticking up for the train operator, "She fell asleep driving the train. Everyone falls asleep driving a train, come on now."
Truer words was never spoken. A genuine Chicago union guy.
Anonymous said...
Actually, to answer your question, our society and economy would do rather poorly without our lawyers. Why do you thing we are the world's greatest economy and superpower? Because we have the world's best lawyers and a lot of them. God Bless the American Lawyer.
3/26/2014 12:29:00 AM
Actually, God Bless the tort system in Illinois, without which there would be many more billboards the likes of "Better Call Saul"
And thank God for contingency fees, without that one/third we would have no Trial Lawyers Association.
Anonymous said...
The engineer fell asleep and didn't stop the train. That could, and does, happen to anyone. There should have been a failsafe mechanism to guard against that happening and stop the train. There wasn't
3/26/2014 12:05:00 PM
There was. It didn't work.
Anonymous said...
The operator had only been on the job since Feb. and this is the second time she has fallen asleep in the cab. I'll bet it's the last time. She is still on probation so unless she has some pretty strong political suction she is gone.
3/26/2014 08:42:00 PM
She could get a job inspecting the tunnels underneath the Chicago River.
Anonymous said...
what are the results from blood test , if they didn't draw blood , get a hair sample asap.
3/26/2014 11:21:00 PM
Federal law requires drug/alcohol testing. NTSB shows up and demands the drop with her union rep. Voluntarily or otherwise.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Currently, the identity of the female train operator who derailed the Blue Line Monday is unknown..."
Does that mean that the CTA doesn't know who she is?
3/27/2014 01:54:00 PM
Right, the train operator is rumored to be the same person arrested several times for masquerading as a police officer on the south side.
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