Articles filed under Transportation
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Public hearing set on Route 47 improvementsMar 03, 2015 12:00 am - State transportation officials are seeking communities' input on proposed improvements to an eight-mile stretch of Route 47 at a March 12 public hearing in Huntley. The...
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Pyke: What local legislators say about transit cutsMar 02, 2015 4:30 am - If you're a Republican state lawmaker whose voters depend on Metra to get to work, can you defend a budget that cuts public transit? And if you're a Democrat from the su...
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Vehicles could compare notes about hazards on I-90Mar 02, 2015 12:00 am - If U.S. Department of Transportation agrees, the Jane Addams Tollway (I-90) will become a high-speed laboratory for "connected cars" that alert drivers of approaching ha...
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CTA promises quick links for commutersMar 02, 2015 12:00 am - Changes to where Metra commuters catch Chicago buses and how they get around the Loop by bus are coming this spring. A new "Loop Link" program intended to get buses thro...
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Stevenson football championship signs:Mar 02, 2015 12:00 am - The Illinois Department of Transportation has recently installed three Class 8A Illinois Football State Champions signs on northbound Milwaukee Avenue, eastbound Half Da...
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Rauner's transportation budget: Bikers up, transit downMar 01, 2015 7:00 am - Motorcycle riders win and disabled transit riders lose, an analysis of transportation funding in the budget proposed by Gov. Bruce Rauner indicates. The budget also reco...
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New Hampshire lake is Lower 48's only ice runwayFeb 28, 2015 12:00 am - ALTON, N.H.- Winter on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee means ice fishing, hockey tournaments and, if the ice is strong enough, airplanes. After being grounded by bad ...
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Suburban O'Hare Commission hires consultants to help battle airport noiseFeb 27, 2015 4:30 am - A group of towns near O'Hare International Airport has hired two consulting firms to assist it in its battle against airport noise. The Suburban O'Hare Commission on Thu...
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Water pipeline move begins; costs $73 millionFeb 27, 2015 4:30 am - Relocating part of a pipeline carrying water to more than 500,000 customers in the Northwest suburbs is moving forward, although how to pay for it is still an open quest...
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Airport responds to mayors' oppostion to runway extensionFeb 27, 2015 4:30 am - Chicago Executive Airport managers say they hear “loud and clear” from the airport's municipal owners, Prospect Heights and Wheeling, where mayors came out swinging this...