Judy Pardonnet Quotations

We are hopeful passengers are reasonable and understand this a law that needs to be enforced. We definitely expect some trials and tribulations.

No, they're not supposed to stand around in one spot.

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

I don't think it's occurred to people. Especially people who commute from the suburbs, they may not have been paying close attention to the smoking ban and they may not realize.

It is a strange set of timing and circumstances. But I am told there are occasions when a dog hits on a positive and there is nothing to be concerned about.

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

When it comes to our attention that the handler and dog make one sweep and stand for hours at a time, that is unacceptable to us.

We are not experts in security and never claimed to be. We are experts in transportation and transit.

We are cooperating with the spirit and the intent of the law. We are not coming down with a huge hammer.

We had some concerns from people. And occasionally we get calls saying the engineer was going too fast. We reduced the speed limit because we understand that is a sensitive area, and we want to make riders as comfortable as they can be.

It would be wonderful if the TSA wanted to use their dogs with their handlers on our system, but unfortunately that is not an option. You don't see the operational people from airlines handling explosive sniffing dogs. TSA handles it for them.

They're trying to see exactly what the engineer behind the controls saw on that day.

They went through a number of elements and a number of different scents, and their performance was very sub-par and unacceptable.

The loss of life is something that has never happened on Metra.