"The CTA requires prospective rail operators to first spend at least 12 months working as flaggers. After 12 months of service, flaggers become eligible to enroll in rail operator training classes. The CTA may be able to work with the Amalgamated Transit Union to waive the 12-month flagger requirement - or shorten it - but agency leaders have repeatedly said they are against doing so for safety reasons."
This means that in order to put 200 employees into rail operator training classes in 2024, the CTA needed to have a minimum of 200 flaggers employed by Dec. 31, 2023. In December, there w
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