Marni Pyke
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Will $600,000 sell suburbs on transit?Jan 15, 2014 12:09 pm - RTA leaders hope $600,000 will sell DuPage County commuters on transit. The agency will be buying radio ads and paying a consulting firm to coordinate a marketing campai...
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RTA chief wants review of Metra after ‘polar vortex’ messJan 15, 2014 10:14 am - Saying he’s underwhelmed by Metra’s handling of the extreme weather last week, RTA Chairman John Gates asked staff to scrutinize the agency’s performance and see if pena...
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Metra offers mea culpa as riders continue to face problemsJan 14, 2014 5:32 pm - Metra riders thought they were out of the frying pan of service problems caused by extreme cold last week, but some feel they’re now in the fire with overcrowded trains....
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Rocky roads! How to navigate pothole territory safelyJan 13, 2014 11:00 am - The car in front of you suddenly lurches into the next lane. Drunken driver? Spilled coffee? This week, the most likely answer is potholes as the dreaded freeze/thaw cyc...
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Improve your winter driving IQJan 13, 2014 4:30 am - Oh, those treacherous winter commutes in my old hatchback, creeping along icy roads, fearful of getting stuck. Good thing I've got my trusty Subaru with its anti-lock br...
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Iced-up switches a pain in the caboose, Metra saysJan 10, 2014 4:30 am - The process of manually extracting ice from railway switches moves at a glacial pace, Metra officials said Thursday following a demonstration to explain train delays and...
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Wednesday brings less commuting chaos, but Metra delays continueJan 08, 2014 7:56 am - Problems with switches that transfer trains from track to track continued to plague Metra during Wednesday’s afternoon rush hour although not to the extent of meltdowns ...
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Metra expects normal service today, but delays likelyJan 07, 2014 9:30 am - We did the best we could, Metra officials said Tuesday, when asked about gripes from riders over canceled trains and mega-delays during the region's big chill. Thousands...
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Experts predict: BoltBus, transit reform, airlines wars on tap for 2014Jan 06, 2014 4:30 am - Goodbye, quiet 2013. What a boring year. All we had to talk about was a Metra leadership crisis, a scandalous RTA report, sequester fallout at airports and control towe...
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2013 sees spike in train vs. car, pedestrian collisionsDec 30, 2013 4:00 am - With his headphones on and music blaring, the young man never saw the Union Pacific Railroad freight train. But engineer Harry Stewart had a few excruciating seconds to ...