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Congestion cost U.S. drivers 4.2 billion hours in 2007
According to a report from the Texas Transportation Institute, motorists across the country in 2007 combined to spend the equivalent of 175 million days in traffic and purchase an extra 2.8 billion gallons of fuel due to congestion. The 2009 Urban Mobility Report, which the institute released in July, states the figures actually represent a [...]
READ MOREGPS on CTA buses could help us all
According to WBBM 780′s Bob Roberts, Chicago and the Chicago Transit Authority are working on a way to help speed the commute for those who don’t use public transportation. Each CTA bus now has a GPS transponder that is used for the bus tracker program, and Roberts reports that the transit agency will share the [...]
READ MOREChicago commuters face 4th most painful drive to work
What do the Stevenson Expressway, Interstate 80, Ill. 59 and the Kennedy Expressway have in common? They are among a group of highways that cause Chicago commuters the most pain, according to the “Commuter Pain Index” released on Friday by IBM. In Friday’s Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevitch’s story on the study nails the symptoms to [...]
READ MORESide street snow a virtual gold mine
I say sorry to the unions, but the idea to privatize snow plowing might make sense — with one caveat courtesy of Garrard McClendon: Let it only be on side streets. McClendon on his Chicago Now blog was one of the first to say we should all get in the “Yes” line. “I’m going to [...]
READ MORECity’s new parking vendor breaks out ambassadors
Jon Hilkevitch in Monday’s Tribune answers a question I have been dying to ask — what’s with these folks hanging around the new pay boxes that line the Lincoln Square and North Center streets these days. Turns out the folks in the bright green T-shirts are temporary workers hired by LAZ Parking, the company managing [...]
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