CLEVELAND (WJW) — Video released to the Fox 8 I-Team shows RTA train riders stranded on the tracks for hours.
Passengers want to know why they got no help for so long. So, we investigated.
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In December, some RTA rapid riders sat in their train going nowhere for at least four hours. They were stranded when their train lost power.
The I-Team obtained video from the train with riders wondering when they would get moving again, or when RTA would get them off of that train.
A recording from an RTA communications system shows a man calling out to the disabled train,
“Okay, you said your train is dead. You lost power.”
The driver answers, “That’s affirmative.”
Nika Webb, one of the passengers, told the I-Team , “First, they said 5 minutes. And we were like, ‘okay, 5 minutes. I just feel, like, it wasn’t handled well. Like, they didn’t care about our well-being out there.”
Calvin Hall also rode that train on that day.