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- Transit funding: Changes Obama should count on
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- It's almost game
time for President-elect Barack Obama, and wisely, economic recovery is the
first item in his playbook.
The
administration-in-waiting understands that any economic recovery package must
not only be a fiscal defibrillator but also signal seismic change from a system…
- Experts: Dysfunction Could Cost Illinois Billions
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- Policy
experts such as Laurence Msall of the Civic Federation fear
Illinois
could lose
billions in federal funds if it doesn't do proper planning.
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- RTA-funded program lets residents give input about transit in their areas
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- For communities that want to improve transportation options, the Regional
Transportation Authority funds a program that facilitates public input into the
transit funding process.
Reconnecting Neighborhoods is part of the city of Chicago’s efforts to change
how public and affordable…
- $22.5 billion in new economic activity from a Chicago 2016 Olympic Games
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- Chicago 2016 announced the results of an independent economic-impact study
commissioned to quantify the economic effects from hosting the 2016 Olympic and
Paralympic Games.
The study found that the Games are expected to stimulate $22.5 billion of
incremental economic activity in the State of…
- Ready for reinvestment? State caught in paradigm shift
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- Gov. Tim Pawlenty's distaste for
President-elect Obama's economic recovery plan is hard to miss. He called
Obama's intention to launch the nation's largest public-works program since the Interstate
highways of the 1950s "an elaborate Ponzi scheme" that "doesn't do anything" to
soften…
- Parking fee hike should fund community improvements
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- The city’s parking meter rate
increases may seem steep, but what if those revenue increases led to more and
better transit options and community improvements?
Increasing parking meter rates
can help manage demand for
Chicago
’s limited parking spaces and curb excess traffic…
- Tangled traffic costs Chicago $7 billion, group says
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- The typical Chicago driver spends long stretches each
morning staring at brake lights. Not only is that tiresome, it has staggering
economic costs, according to Maria Saldana of the Metropolitan Planning
Council.A recent study estimates that people in the six-county Chicago
area waste about…
- When doing nothing results in going nowhere
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- Traffic gridlock is a reality of life
in the
Chicago
region, and for weary motorists, the
problem is only getting worse.
The average area motorist spent 46
hours stuck in rush hour traffic in 2005 compared to just 22 hours in 1985,
according to a study by the Texas Transportation…
- Westward halt! Gas prices slow expansion
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- Four years ago, Jodi Caldwell and her family moved to a
quiet subdivision in Yorkville because their new house had an irresistible
draw."My lot is twice the size of the one I had in Bolingbrook," said
Caldwell, 41, a real estate agent and mother of four. Back then,
gasoline was less than $2…
- Transit nearby pays at the pump
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- Manhattan still is waiting for housing near
mass transit.
That's
Manhattan
,
Ill., not Manhattan, N.Y.
The far southwest suburb, 40 miles from Chicago
at the end of
Metra
's
Southwest Line, is hoping for a transit-friendly project.
"We've…
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