Transportation
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All aboard the M1? Metra considers renaming train linesMar 12, 2025 2:35 pm - Metra offers a survey for riders to help determine if they should rebrand train lines or stick to the status quo.
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Funds approved to buy right of way to fill key bike trail gap in Aptakisic Road corridorMar 11, 2025 11:23 pm - The Lake County Board set the table Tuesday to fill the last bike trail gap along the Aptakisic Road corridor from the Des Plaines River to downtown Long Grove.
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Not so magically delicious: Kennedy Expressway fix returns on St. Pat’s Day, outbound lanes the focusMar 11, 2025 7:15 pm - The final leg of Kennedy work on the outbound lanes begins Monday. Project costs now estimated at $169 million.
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‘Silos’ and ‘steamrollers’: Rival plans to save Metra, Pace and the CTA go under the microscopeMar 11, 2025 6:47 pm - Illinois state senators put rival plans to rescue transit in the Chicago region under the microscope Tuesday.
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NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died
Mar 11, 2025 1:53 pm - Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday to improve safety.
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Southwest Airlines breaks with another tradition and checked bags will cost you now
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Metra ‘owes an explanation’: Documents show ‘allegation chart’ and ‘discrimination section’ in secret police probeMar 09, 2025 9:00 pm - State senator wants Metra outside consultants’ report released. “If you’re going to hide it, it just lets it fester.“
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Huntley preps for Kreutzer Road widening – village’s largest public improvement project ever
Mar 09, 2025 10:07 am - Construction is scheduled to start later this year on Huntley’s $14.6 million Kreutzer Road widening and realignment project.
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Metra asks feds for relief in feud with Union Pacific over ‘unreasonable’ costs to run trains on tracksMar 07, 2025 7:34 pm - Union Pacific, Metra impasse gets real with predictions of a commuter shutdown in July.
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Unexploded WWII bomb halts Eurostar travel connecting Paris to London and Brussels