Breathing In Train Fumes is Dangerous

CBS News Chicago has the story. Turns out that it's dangerous to breath in train exhaust. Who would have guessed?


"Questions first mounted about the dangers of soot on Metra trains after an earlier test last year by the Tribune and the Chicago Respiratory Health Association. The test found that Metra trains pulling out of Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center can have air trapped inside passenger cars that contains levels of diesel soot up to 72 times higher than on neighboring streets."


Anybody who has ever taken the train outbound from Union Station south knows not to walk down the platform toward the engine. Just get on the train at the first car and slowly work your way to the front. Or, just sit down in the middle of the train and walk ahead to the front of the train before your stop. Or, go ahead and breath in some deadly deadly fumes.


Hey, let's build the train station under streets and buildings. What could possibly go wrong!?