Marni Pyke
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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...
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Tollway: Get ready for widening I-90 from Elgin to the KennedySep 09, 2013 1:06 pm - Drivers on the Jane Addams Tollway (I-90) between the Elgin toll plaza and the Kennedy Expressway can expect lots of night life as the agency preps for the second part o...
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How a Roselle family got a $10,000 bill from tollwaySep 09, 2013 5:30 am - This week, it's another column about problems at Metra. Kidding! Instead, we're focusing on your questions about a “Kafkaesque” dispute with the Illinois tollway, messed...
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DuPage transportation planner named to Metra boardSep 06, 2013 9:58 am - A background as a transportation planner and hands-on experience as a commuter on Metra’s BNSF Line will help him “be part of the solution” on the troubled Metra board, ...
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Metra review finds Schaffer didn’t leak harmful info to CliffordSep 05, 2013 7:23 pm - Metra Director Jack Schaffer did not cross an ethical or legal line in forwarding confidential documents to ex-CEO Alex Clifford while Clifford’s contract was in limbo t...