Chicago Tribune: Just pay your toll, no more http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0306300114jun30,1,258687 5.story GETTING AROUND Jon Hilkevitch...
Daily Herald Here's how to get your bike downtown Daily Herald Reports Posted 6/30/03 Q. I remember reading last year about how you knew of how to get a ...
Metra Service UpdatesThis is supposed to be a temporary bridge as concrete pillers cannot be pored and cured this quick. Both tracks will be in service. No...
Printer Friendly http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-metra01.html Metra line back on track today July 1, 2003 BY ROBERT C. HERGUTH Transportation...
I think also a distinction can be made between "rapid transit" and "commuter rail". Rapid transit systems like BART and WMATA are usually in much denser areas...
Here is another problem. We Americans are auto-oriented. You drive the 5 miles to the train station so that on your way home you can stop for a gallon of milk,...
I take the Orange Line almost daily and have never experienced any very cold temperatures. For the most part the temperature is very comfortable, although...
... It's not the fault of the person doing this. He may have grown up in a city neighborhood in the '40's or '50's in which common services (movie theaters in ...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 2:16 pm
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... I'll agree with Dennis, that BART and WMATA and MARTA have more in common with commuter rail than they do with 100-year-old rapid transit lines of Chicago...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 2:49 pm
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I tried to get some information about the use of proximity cards for RTA permit holders. As you know, three classes of riders require permits to be eligible ...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 5:25 pm
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Andris had asked if Pace has been keeping up with the history of bus service changes. Lorraine Snorden finally got back to me. She thinks that they've been ...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 6:28 pm
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This is a real chicken vs. egg problem. Did we become auto-dependent because of nefarious schemes by auto builders and developers or did we become...
Ok, I'll grant you that BART is really more commuter rail than rapid transit, considering the huge distances involved. How far do they reach out, 60+ miles? ...
Adam - Nobody will turn over the original. Try o get them to make you a copy (at I imagine the usual PACE rate of 25 cents a page). Then post the whole thing,...
... Heh. I'm not expecting that! ... If it's readable, I'll scan it, run it through OCR, and see if it turns easily into a data base. Perhaps they'll give it...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 8:15 pm
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Nobody, that's who. I am still keeping up the CTA route histories. Need a few things (since I cannot do this in person any more): 1 - exact description (maybe...
... Cannot drive on Clark Street across Orrington in either direction; it's been impossible since they built the Elgin Road bypass in 1958. Elgin Road is ...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 9:03 pm
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... I'm sure LeBeau will wish to keep in touch with his old buddy....
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 1, 2003 9:04 pm
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Thanks Adam - that's what I suspected for 201, but if one looks at the map in the brochure, it sure does not look like that! Andre ...
I had the picture and forms filled out at a township office for my RTA senior card. The card has a magnetic stripe that can supposedly be charged up by CTA...
Pace is now running a lot of about 25 passenger buses out here in the land of the Burlington, a much better bus then a school bus and it is air-conditioned....
But what about pre-pace routes, the West Towns lines date back to the decade of the 1900s. ... From: Adam H. Kerman To: CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Pre-Pace Westmont ran it's own bus for a couple of years (contracted out). BEFORE that, the Twin Lakes Towers ran a free bus for it's tenents (and it had...
... There will be a CERA book coming out on West Towns within a few years. Yes; absolutely. Every bit of this route history information must be preserved, and...
Adam H. Kerman
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Jul 2, 2003 6:01 am
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Is there anything planned for the future --- Or has there been anything out like a book for the trolley bus lines ???? I have the Milwaukee Transport book...
