Articles filed under Transportation
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Experts say rail crossing safety costly but crucialOct 11, 2012 12:00 pm - Saving someone’s life at a railway crossing could be as easy as adding more gates. But making crossings in Illinois less hazardous is costly, experts said Thursday at a ...
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Elk Grove High shows off renovations, soundproofingOct 10, 2012 7:05 pm - Students and staff members helped show off the newly renovated and soundproofed Elk Grove High School on Wednesday afternoon, the end result of years of effort and milli...
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Emergency declaration fizzles at RTAOct 10, 2012 3:18 pm - Regional Transportation Authority board directors didn’t buy arguments that empty desks in the auditing and IT departments justified emergency spending Wednesday. The bo...
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City-suburbs transit turf spat resolved — for nowOct 09, 2012 3:22 pm - A transit impasse that pitted the suburbs against the city appears resolved for now. Regional Transportation Authority leaders approved a compromise funding plan for the...
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Lake County Board candidates tackle transportationOct 09, 2012 10:28 am - Sound walls, wider roads and consistent speed limits are just a few of the transportation ideas proposed by the candidates running for the Lake County Board’s 19th Distr...
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County engineer appointment official:Oct 08, 2012 4:09 pm - The appointment of Paula Trigg as Lake County’s county engineer/director of transportation is official. Trigg, who has worked at the Lake County Division of Transportati...
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Funding feud could lead to transit 'Armageddon,' RTA chief saysOct 07, 2012 11:00 pm - I have that déjà vu feeling. A special meeting of the Regional Transportation Authority's been called to vote on funding for the 2013 budget. This time, the meeting fall...
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Elk Grove High School celebrates finished sound abatement projectOct 05, 2012 11:37 am - A nearly 7-year process to make the classrooms quieter when planes fly over Elk Grove High School is finally finished, and district officials want to celebrate. In 2005,...
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Editorial: A chance to examine the RTAOct 05, 2012 5:00 am - When people complain about the need to get rid of extra layers of government in Illinois, they’re often thinking of townships or mosquito abatement authorities or sanita...
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Power back on in HuntleyOct 03, 2012 12:34 pm - ComEd restored power in Huntley this morning, a bit more than an hour after it had gone out, a ComEd spokeswoman said. The interruption affected about 1,500 customers ne...