Transportation
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Illinois legislators consider bills expanding bicyclists' rights, liability protectionsMar 30, 2025 7:05 pm - Many Illinois lawmakers are sponsoring bills related to bicycling, including defining tricycles as bikes, allowing bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs, and deeming bikes intended roadway users.
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‘You can’t roll the dice all the time’: First responders preparing for more freight trainsMar 30, 2025 3:13 pm - Feds approved the merger of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads in March 2023. What’s happening now with freight traffic and blocked crossings?
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On the right track? Glen Ellyn village president hopefuls talk train station redoMar 27, 2025 1:28 pm - The candidates running for village president in Glen Ellyn weigh in on a proposed redesign of the downtown train station site and a pedestrian tunnel.
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Rolling Meadows council hits brakes on Kirchoff ‘road diet,’ orders traffic study firstMar 26, 2025 7:21 pm - The Rolling Meadows City Council voted 4-3 to postpone approval of a plan to reduce Kirchoff Road from five lanes to three, pending a traffic study.
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‘How is this going to work?’: Transit reform advocates far apart on major issuesMar 25, 2025 8:16 pm - State lawmakers grilled proponents Tuesday about reform bills seeking to fix the transit funding crisis.
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Your ‘Stallone’ is served: New eateries land at O’Hare amid spring getaway seasonMar 24, 2025 1:30 pm - What’s on the menu at O’Hare? New pizzerias and celebrity sandwiches.
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Taxes on haircuts and miles instead of gas? Amid transit crisis, new funding ideas spring upMar 23, 2025 9:00 pm - The state could study instituting a mileage-based tax compared to the current one based on gallons of gas, under a proposal in the Illinois General Assembly.
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First plane lands at London's Heathrow since a fire cut power to Europe's busiest airport
Mar 21, 2025 10:05 am - A large fire near London's Heathrow Airport knocked out power Friday to Europe’s busiest flight hub, forcing it to shut and disrupting global travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers.
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‘A spiral effect’: 40% service cuts estimated if Metra, Pace, CTA veer over the fiscal cliffMar 21, 2025 5:00 am - Transit funding shortfall could mean halving Metra service, but one suburban lawmaker says he won’t approve “a dime” without reforms.
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Where’s my Metra train? Railroad updates progress of installing digital signs, ticket machinesMar 20, 2025 9:51 am - Metra hopes to have a new train tracking sign at every station by the end of the first quarter of 2026.