Articles filed under Pace
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Pace won't collect bus fares through AprilApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - To board passengers quickly and maintain social distancing with bus drivers and riders, Pace is suspending fare collections temporarily. The "Quick Board, Safe Board," p...
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'Swift effort' cleans Downers Grove creek after fuel spillMar 26, 2020 1:00 am - A diesel fuel spill that leaked into a Downers Grove creek has been largely cleaned up, authorities said Thursday. The spill resulted from a fuel line failure at a Pace...
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Coronavirus: What O'Hare, Metra, CTA are doing amid COVID-19 fearsMar 02, 2020 4:30 am - The idea of a coronavirus outbreak shutting down airports, trains and buses — as occurred in Wuhan, China, in January — seems improbable in the suburbs. But as the world...
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Report paints dire picture of services for disabled and elderly transit ridersDec 02, 2019 12:00 am - People with disabilities and the elderly are often "stranded and isolated" in their homes because of meager transit options, a Metropolitan Planning Council report finds...
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Pace reverses course, plans to keep 8 threatened bus routes for nowNov 04, 2019 12:00 am - Pace will spare eight bus routes slated to be canceled or downsized after getting a thumb's down from riders, officials said Monday. "We hear them," Pace spokeswoman Mag...
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Pace proposed bus cuts will hurt homeless, disabled people, agency saysOct 28, 2019 5:30 am - When state lawmakers passed new fees and a gas tax in June to fund a capital program, the bad news was sweetened by the expectation it would fix roads, repair infrastruc...
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Express buses on the Tri-State? Pace revving its engines with funding influxJul 29, 2019 5:30 am - After years of being relegated to meager portions and last-in-line status of local transit agencies, Pace suburban bus finds itself with the means to do something big. W...
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Did Pace make a clout hiring, or are critics making 'absurd claims'?Mar 04, 2019 4:30 am - Pace officials are defending the agency against claims of age discrimination and political nepotism entwined in a federal lawsuit. Lawrence Gress of Downers Grove, a for...
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InTransit: New Pace leader envisions possible Uber collaborationJan 07, 2019 4:30 am - Unconventional thinking has kept Pace alive so far but the reinvention of the suburban bus agency must continue, said Rocky Donahue, Pace's new acting executive director...
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Pace IT expert from Schaumburg sentenced in kickback schemeDec 01, 2018 12:00 am - A former Pace administrator who scammed thousands from the suburban bus service was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday by a federal judge, officials said. R...