By Mary Wisniewski, Chicago Tribune; November 13, 2019
After a “disastrous” service outage that delayed tens of thousands of passengers earlier this year and problems with falling concrete, Rep. Dan Lipinski wants Metra to take over control of train operations at Chicago Union Station from Amtrak.
Lipinski, a Chicago Democrat who serves on the Transportation Committee, asked for the turnover of operations during a committee hearing in Congress on Wednesday.