Articles filed under Transportation
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CTA veteran moving to Metra board as Preckwinkle’s choiceSep 30, 2013 12:12 pm - Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle picked a former CTA conductor and executive to take a seat on the troubled Metra board Monday. Retired transit manager Romayne Bro...
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RTA spending more than $670,000 on spin controlSep 30, 2013 5:00 am - An August Regional Transportation Authority audit scolded Metra for hiring PR consultants, but the agency isn't practicing what it preaches. Records show the RTA has sp...
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Runners get first chance to try out new O’Hare runwaySep 29, 2013 5:58 pm - Races benefit the Wounded Warrior Project
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Restored Itasca train museum reopensSep 28, 2013 9:00 pm - The grand opening of the restored Itasca Historical Depot Museum was a train-themed extravaganza, complete with the sounds of train whistles and horns everywhere. The mu...
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Gary airport proposals fall short of city's hopesSep 28, 2013 9:00 am - GARY, Ind. — Proposals from two companies that have bid on a request to run operations and development at Gary/Chicago International Airport have fallen short of the cit...
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Key step in Libertyville road project comingSep 28, 2013 8:00 am - Major traffic delays are expected for three days beginning Monday for a road project that has stressed drivers in the Libertyville area for more than a year, but the wor...
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Plan for tunnel near parks resurfaces in Island LakeSep 27, 2013 11:16 am - A decades-old proposal to connect two Island Lake parks on opposite sides of Route 176 with a tunnel beneath the busy road has resurfaced. But the man who brought the co...
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Computer failure causes Metra North line delaysSep 27, 2013 8:00 am - At least three trains on Metra's Union Pacific North line from Chicago to Kenosha are delayed this morning because of a “system-wide computer failure,” according to a Me...
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Tollway employees fired for bullying, growing pot and moreSep 26, 2013 5:02 pm - An Illinois tollway employee growing marijuana — although not on the premises — and maintenance workers going AWOL were among the findings in a semiannual report by the ...
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Fitzgerald criticizes Metra hiring policiesSep 26, 2013 3:33 pm - Chicago-area transit agencies don’t appear to adequately train staff on how to prevent political hiring, according to former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, a member o...