The CTA will lower the speed limit on the Yellow Line once it finally reopens after a train crash and derailment last month that sent 19 people to hospitals, according to federal investigators.
National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said Tuesday that the CTA informed her agency it would reduce maximum train speeds from 55 mph to 35 mph on the North Side route, and down to 25 mph in the area near the Howard station where a train slammed into a snowplow on the track Nov. 16.
