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The CTA has fired a bus driver who it said spewed an expletive-filled rant at an elderly widow who didn’t display her reduced-fare pass quickly, officials said Friday.
The bus drivers union said Friday that the 36-year-old CTA operator did nothing wrong, according to a union investigation. James McCollum and his union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, will appeal the firing, said union spokeswoman Katheryn Hayes.
“The union conducted its own investigation and found there was dialogue between the driver and the passenger, but nothing rude or discourteous was said or done on the driver’s part,” Hayes said.
