{"id":92709,"date":"2025-07-26T00:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92709\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:21:10","slug":"metra-bnsf-line-halted-in-both-directions-after-pedestrian-struck-by-train-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92709\/","title":{"rendered":"Metra BNSF line halted in both directions after pedestrian struck by train \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metra BNSF line trains have been halted in both directions late Friday afternoon after a pedestrian was struck by a train near the Brookfield station, Metra officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Metra confirmed the service disruption shortly after 5:35 p.m., with the agency adding that the duration of the service delay is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BNSF inbound and outbound trains are stopped due to train #1276 striking a pedestrian near Brookfield. Duration of the delay is unknown. Metra will provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Metra BNSF (@metraBNSF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metraBNSF\/status\/1948875166911770635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Metra BNSF line provides service to Chicago&#8217;s western suburbs, running from Union Station to a western terminal in Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>There was no further information available.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metra BNSF line trains have been halted in both directions late Friday afternoon after a pedestrian was struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,18277],"class_list":{"0":"post-92709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-metra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114916680253761510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}