Marni Pyke
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Battery dream team will spark innovations in cars, gridJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - Imagine an electric car that costs less than $40,000 and runs on a battery which doesn't fill half the vehicle. Imagine a battery with the capacity to store wind and sol...
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Illinois tollway revenue up in 2012, despite boycott threatsJan 04, 2013 1:24 pm - They swore to boycott the Illinois tollway after rates spiked in 2012, but everything from bad weather to kamikaze deer to sheer convenience kept many drivers on toll ro...
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Planes, trains and automobiles: A look at 2013Dec 30, 2012 10:00 pm - Today we will journey — to the future! Sort of. Four experts have lent their visionary powers to this column to forecast the major transportation stories of 2013. But f...
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Toll hikes, NATO among 2012's top transit storiesDec 23, 2012 10:00 pm - Read-them-and-weep gas prices. A failed plan to institute speed cameras in the suburbs. The completion of Wacker Drive construction — finally. The extinction of the Prai...
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Making railroad crossings safer is father's crusadeDec 19, 2012 10:00 pm - Second of three parts Lauren Wilson is frozen in time as a sweet-faced 14-year-old who told her father she wanted to follow in Ronald Reagan's path “from the silver...
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Suburbs fail to mirror state's drop in train collisionsDec 18, 2012 10:00 pm - This is a test correction. First of three parts At least three people a month will die when they are hit by a train in the Chicago region next year, according ...
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Metra raises fares for passengers using 10-ride passesDec 14, 2012 9:40 am - Despite objections, Metra leaders raised fares on 10-ride passes by 11 percent Friday, effective Feb. 1, 2013. The hike follows on the heels of a 30 percent increase in ...
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Tollway faces hurdles for expressway extension, interchangeDec 13, 2012 4:56 pm - More than $162 million of the Illinois tollway’s just-approved 2013 budget is earmarked for work on the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway extension and an interchange at I-57 and ...
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Readers sore over Metra fare hikes, red-light ticketsDec 03, 2012 4:30 am - The Thanksgiving leftovers are history, but it's not too late to say thanks — for reading and commenting on In Transit this year. And the best way to express my apprecia...
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Will new chairman bring Metra some Irish luck?Nov 26, 2012 4:30 am - It’s crunchtime for Metra’s new chairman, Brad O’Halloran — with big challenges that require a game plan where failure isn’t an option. But am I talking about the fundin...