Articles filed under Transportation
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Once nearly extinct, streetcar gets new life in USNov 12, 2013 12:00 pm - KENOSHA, Wis. — When the auto plant here closed, this prosperous Wisconsin port city on Lake Michigan lost more than just its largest employer. Its sense of vitality see...
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Des Plaines railroad bridge among projects to get federal fundsNov 12, 2013 9:00 am - Thinking outside the box earned 51 local governments and agencies a collective $286 million in federal cash for projects that reduce pollution and ease gridlock in the c...
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Is RTA's $1.6 million fight against tax havens a good bet?Nov 11, 2013 4:00 am - It seemed a no-brainer back in 2011 when the RTA sued Channahon and Kankakee, claiming the towns were cheating the six-county region out of millions by operating tax hav...
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Construction will require two-week closure of Rollins RoadNov 09, 2013 10:00 pm - Detours start Monday, will last about two weeks
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Buffalo Grove raises Metra lot parking costNov 09, 2013 10:42 am - The Buffalo Grove village board last week approved an increase in the cost of a bimonthly commuter parking pass for the Metra parking lot at the station on the North Cen...
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NTSB releases preliminary report on Bolingbrook plane crashNov 07, 2013 5:07 pm - The National Transportation Safety Board says a small plane that crashed in September killing two people touched down multiple times on a Bolingbrook runway as it tried ...
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$5 million Arlington Heights road project completedNov 07, 2013 4:01 pm - The road improvement project at Northwest Highway and the Arthur and Davis intersection in Arlington Heights is complete with the area reopening to traffic earlier this ...
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Interchange a collaboration that officials hope will create jobsNov 07, 2013 11:20 am - After years of 50 percent, Huntley-area drivers now have a full interchange at Route 47 and the Jane Addams Tollway. “We’ve waited many years for this day to come,” said...
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Plane veers off runway after landing at O’HareNov 06, 2013 9:25 am - Passengers on an American Eagle regional jet had a bumpy welcome to Chicago when their aircraft skidded off the runway Wednesday morning. None of the 38 passengers and f...
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Tollway call center puts visually impaired, veterans to workNov 06, 2013 4:00 am - Based on experience, many I-PASS users wouldn't get the impression the person on the other end of the line at the customer call center was (a) grateful to the point of t...