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SB 170 passed out of committee, unanimously. It amends the Toll Highway Act to allow buses owned by RTA to use the tollway toll free. Similar legislation...
Far off topic but transit related, but I thought you might get a kick out of this. am in Vienna for a business meeting and on the way home from dinner tonight...
... I remember seeing dogs on the U-Bahn in Munich, but I didn't inspect the TVMs for dog tickets (my German had declined sufficiently that I was worried about...
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... As far as I know, the only public transportation in the Chicago area which allows pets is the South Shore Line. Sometimes I wonder why transit agencies...
Right until the end of service, Chicago Aurora & Elgin cash fare receipts had a place for the conductor to punch DOG (right next to HALF FARE). I don't know...
... Hope to have time to ride the line tomorrow but ... Did get to ride it, its a wonderful and interesting ride and had many of the characteristics we would...
Even longer ago, on a 1974 trip, the carpet in a 1st Classe car on the Lyon-Paris Lyonnaise that accommodated a number of dogs with their owners was heavily...
Hello Mike, I couldn't get back to you any sooner re: Cross-town and the David Roeder piece in the Sun-Times. I like the tollway concept; but agree that...
... Eight lanes! That's the size of the Eisenhower, requiring, what, at least 200 feet? That's a hell of a lot of land acquisition, and I really don't see why ...
I made the point that 8-lanes/200' on a single level [causes] most community disruption and dislocation while a stacked multi-level structure would be much so,...
Beside fudging on "approach time," justification for a CTA rapid transit extension to O'Hare rather than commuter rail also used shorter running time based on...
... The extension probably is engineered to allow 70 mph operation, if the trains didn't have governors that limit the top speed to 55. I actually rode on a...
... I was thinking about change in land use from one purpose to another where the residential areas are stable. At the far north end where you're already close...
The 2000's were supposed to be geared for only 65 mph. They might have hit 70 as you observed with a light load. Speed was governed as you stated; but from...
You just don't get the notion that exressways beget developments, or at least the desire for a location close by. This has happened time and again in the...
... Of course I do. So why isn't Lawndale a hot neighborhood? It has plenty of transportation, expressway, transit rail, bus. ... You feel that a railroad...
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I was poking around a little bit on the Web. And I found a document describing some of the plans for the Regional Bus Authority, being created for the...
Lawndale may come back some day not too far off because of transportation. Look what's happening in Bronzeville, Washington Park, and elsewhere in the City....
I suppose a satellite bus tracking system is a nice toy and may be used someday to regulate service; but it seems the millions could have been prioritized for...
Interesting. Obviously there is no capacity on the South Shore for growth. Single-level carsLimited schedule slots between Metra Electric trainsYears ago I...