Marni Pyke
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Tollway puts Route 53 on front burnerSep 17, 2013 6:00 pm - An advisory group will start tackling the difficult issues of how to pay for a proposed Route 53 extension north and what its ultimate design should be. The Illinois tol...
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RTA fails to reach funding agreementSep 17, 2013 6:00 pm - Frustration pervaded a special Regional Transportation Authority meeting Tuesday as directors failed to reach a deal on funding for Metra, Pace and the CTA, and the mood...
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Interim CEO wants public to put its trust in Metra againSep 16, 2013 5:30 am - Metra's Don Orseno now has a secretary and executive office with a view, but in a pinch he can take off his suit jacket and drive a train. That's among the reasons Metra...
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Metra, Pace and the CTA waste money, RTA chief saysSep 14, 2013 11:00 pm - Metra. Pace and the CTA throw away money every year by failing to coordinate purchasing and scare off potential vendors with an isolated silo mentality, Regional Transpo...
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Metra, Pace and the CTA waste money, RTA chief saysSep 14, 2013 5:17 pm - Metra. Pace and the CTA throw away money every year by failing to coordinate purchasing and scare off potential vendors with an isolated silo mentality, Regional Transpo...
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Bears, Illini, BMW golf, Riot Fest: How to avoid the trafficSep 14, 2013 8:00 am - Punks, punters, putting, pitching and pits are converging this weekend in Chicago, although fortunately not at the same place. Bears and White Sox games, Riot Fest in Ch...
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Battle lines drawn at RTA may have scuttled meetingSep 12, 2013 11:06 pm - Regional Transportation Authority administrators abruptly canceled a Friday meeting amid friction between board directors over the mission of the agency and funding for ...
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Mulder will leave Metra when term ends in JuneSep 12, 2013 5:30 am - Former Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder says she will leave the embattled Metra board when her term ends next June. Mulder had been mentioned as a potential contend...
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Metra board rebuilding enough to pick chairman, CEOSep 10, 2013 5:30 am - With the Chicago mayor's pick of former alderman Martin Oberman to serve as a Metra director, the board now is expected to have the magic number — eight — to pick a perm...
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Using Ventra on CTA, Pace will get better, officials saySep 10, 2013 5:15 am - There are still some bumps in the road as Pace and the CTA move to Ventra, the new fare system that debuted Monday. The Daily Herald conducted a test run of Ventra and f...