Articles filed under Transportation
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Editorial: Transit savings are ready to be foundJun 07, 2012 5:00 am - The salvos have been fired and it’s apparent that there’s plenty of work to be done to save money among the transportation agencies that govern our trains and buses in t...
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Congressmen say going through airport security should be simplerJun 05, 2012 5:30 am - Security screenings at airports have disrupted sophisticated terrorist plots, but going through the system should get easier for passengers, Rep. Mike Rogers, an Alabama...
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Hanover Park’s Longmeadow Lane Bridge closed after inspectionJun 04, 2012 3:52 pm - The village of Hanover Park has closed the Longmeadow Lane Bridge to all traffic between Irving Park Road and Westchester Drive. Public Works Director Howard Killian sa...
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9 Red Line stations including White Sox will close in 2013 for rebuildJun 04, 2012 1:00 pm - Suburbanites heading to Chinatown or U.S. Cellular Field by transit next spring will need to come up with a new game plan as the CTA temporarily shuts down nine Red Line...
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Reimburse parkers for being displacedJun 04, 2012 10:06 am - Every year for at least the past three years, hundreds of Metra riders such as me who park at the Roselle station are inconvenienced by the village’s “Rose Festival” car...
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Turf war causing transit gridlock in suburbs?Jun 03, 2012 11:00 pm - Pace, Metra, CTA and RTA not on same page
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States looking to new tolls to pay for highwaysJun 01, 2012 2:27 pm - WASHINGTON — Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay. With Congress unwilling ...
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Senate OKs $1.6 billion loan to cover transit programMay 31, 2012 7:15 pm - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate has approved borrowing $1.6 billion so the state doesn’t have to cut any road construction or transit projects. That’s less than the $...
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Plane that slid off O’Hare runway made emergency landing WednesdayMay 31, 2012 9:30 am - An American Eagle plane that slid off a runway at O’Hare International Airport Thursday morning during an emergency landing had made an emergency landing at the airport ...
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Green Oaks may have solution to noisy stretch of Tri-State TollwayMay 30, 2012 11:00 pm - Widening the Tri-State Tollway through Lake County may have made traveling easier, but the improvements came with an unwanted byproduct for some residents in Green Oaks....