Articles filed under Pyke, Marni
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'Not ready for prime time yet': How local officials are preparing and training for electric vehicles
May 16, 2022 5:10 AM - The electrification of American cars isn't just theoretical anymore, and that's why firefighters learned how to handle EV battery fires and mayors got tips on how to power their future electric snowplow fleets at the recent Green Drives conferences in Naperville organized by Chicago Area Clean Cities.
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Work ahead: Your guide to 2022 roadwork and where the traffic will be
May 2, 2022 5:30 AM - With the tollway gearing up for its busiest construction year ever, here's the good, the bad and the ugly of 2022 roadwork.
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Attention, Metra passengers: More trains coming this spring as agency tweaks schedules
Apr 25, 2022 5:30 AM - What Metra lines will get more trains soon? We have the details. UP Northwest's revised schedule gets panned by some riders. And, where have you gone, downtown worker? Experts predict a flow into the Loop this summer.
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Masks now set to come off May 3 on transit, airplanes: Here's what to know
Apr 18, 2022 9:54 AM - Masks are a must on planes and transit until May 3, the feds now say, to keep people safe and reduce spread of COVID-19. But what about the risk that a mask altercation will erupt 35,000 feet up in the interim?
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'Where we're faster than cars, people will come': New Pace CEO aims for express buses on Tri-State
Apr 13, 2022 11:39 AM - Express buses on the Tri-State? It's on Pace's to-do list, new CEO Melinda Metzger says. These bad boys would zip between Harvey and Schaumburg in designated lanes offering a much-needed suburb-to-suburb connection.
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How spiking diesel costs translate into higher prices for everyone
Mar 28, 2022 1:25 PM - Diesel prices are skyrocketing and that means one thing: You pay more for groceries. Serendipitously, Lion Electric's truck and school bus factory is roaring into the suburbs.
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Pain at the pumps? How to save fuel and money as gas prices soar
Mar 14, 2022 6:30 AM - Don't idle your engine. Ditch that junk in the car. Carpool. Get an alignment. These expert tips can held reduce the pain at the gas pump.
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Masks on trains and planes, still? TSA policy decision coming soon
Mar 7, 2022 10:58 AM - As COVID-19 cases decline and face mask rules disappear, one final frontier is transportation -- from buses to airplanes. And that could change next week.
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More than $4 a gallon? Ukraine crisis, summer blend will mean pain at the pump
Feb 28, 2022 5:30 AM - Some suburban drivers are seeing gas costs rising to more than $4 a gallon of regular due to a combination of familiar trends and multiple unknowns resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, experts say.
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After tragic 2021 for expressway shootings, does 2022's downturn have staying power?
Feb 21, 2022 5:30 AM - Expressway shootings are trending down in 2022 but it's early. And we're coming off a record-breaking 310 reported expressway shootings in 2021, a year in which the number of state troopers decreased. What gives and where was suburban gunfire?
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