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CTA hosts community safety workshop; public commenters offer a youth intervention pitch and raise DHS grant concerns
Summary
CTA summarized a community safety workshop that brought social-service, public-safety and peer transit agencies together to design a Safe Ride Ambassador pilot; public commenters urged youth-focused intervention on the Red Line and flagged federal DHS grant terms.
Acting President Norliff and Carrie Bader, vice president of strategy and innovation, summarized a transit community safety workshop held in late August that brought CTA staff, union partners, mental-health and social-service organizations, public-safety agencies and peer transit agencies together to inform pilot designs for a Safe Ride Ambassador program and related security initiatives.
Bader said more than 50 external participants and about 25 CTA staff attended the half-day workshop. The goals, she said, were "safety through presence, partnership, and people," and participants worked through real-world scenarios such as disruptive behavior, mental-health crises and riders who altered travel patterns…
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