Articles filed under Transportation
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‘One of the most important infrastructure projects in the country’: What’s next with I-490, Route 390Jan 09, 2024 5:23 am - Illinois tollway officials Monday predicted major progress in 2024 on a game-changing project. The agency is building a new toll road (I-490) around O’Hare’s western fl...
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Metra kicks off machine-only ticket sales at BNSF stationsJan 09, 2024 5:15 am - Metra’s shift from humans to machines selling train tickets at stations on the BNSF Line Monday left a number of veteran commuters unfazed during the morning rush. “I buy...
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‘Next generation’ of tollway transponders is ... a sticker. Here’s what you need to knowJan 08, 2024 6:35 am - This year marks the start of the Illinois tollway’s transition to I-PASS sticker tags instead of the familiar hard-case transponder. The new technology is cheaper and sm...
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‘Long awaited and longed for’: Underpass work in Barrington set to beginJan 06, 2024 5:28 pm - Drivers traveling through Barrington along Northwest Highway know what it’s like to suffer long delays as they wait for freight train traffic to clear along the Canadian ...
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2024 transportation predictions: Blustery skies over O’Hare redo and peering down a transit cliffJan 02, 2024 10:25 am - The train has left the 2023 station loaded with major stories, from a controversial CP railway merger to a transit funding crisis. So what’s next in 2024, you ask? In a t...
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Taking transit this holiday? Here are tips on family fares and free ridesDec 31, 2023 11:23 am - A holiday staycation doesn’t mean hunkering down the entire time. And for active suburbanites experiencing cabin fever, Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority are offeri...
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Holiday travel is mostly nice, but with some naughty disruptions again on Southwest AirlinesDec 25, 2023 2:03 pm - Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with Southwest Airlines. For...
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Two busloads of migrants dropped off at Elmhurst train stationDec 24, 2023 4:54 pm - Two busloads of migrants who reportedly had entered the U.S. in Texas were dropped off at the Elmhurst train station Saturday night, police announced. A total of 91 peopl...
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Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 peopleDec 21, 2023 8:03 am - AUSTIN, Texas — Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's busing operation t...
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These personalized license plate requests made the ‘naughty list’Dec 20, 2023 8:26 pm - ‘IOWASUX’ and others were too hot to handle