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New York giveth away and Chicago taketh

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Lucky Chicago. They aren’t afraid of change and progress, and now the Windy City is getting what should be ours if it hadn’t been for Sheldon Silver and his crony of cowardly representatives.
When New York decided not to adopt congestion pricing, the City forfeited around $354 million that would have gone toward anti-congestion [...]

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Chicago facing one ‘L’ of a problem

Monday, March 26th, 2007

A glimpse down the ‘L’ tracks in Chicago. (Courtesy of flickr user sftrajan)
Once upon a time, the New York City subways were a mess. Decades of Robert Moses’ iron-fisted rule of the NYC metropolitan area’s transportation policies had left the subways near bankrupt and in a state of disrepair. Old train cars derailed frequently and [...]

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