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By
Steven Vance
9:17 AM CDT on October 31, 2014
- #1 Traffic Tip Tonight: Drive Slower Than the Speed Limit (Expired Meter)
- Apartments Near Loop ‘L’ Stations Cost the Same as in Wicker Park (DNA)
- MPC Says CTA Living “Within Its Means” But is Expanding Less than Nationwide Peers (Crain’s)
- DNA Info Steps Inside Historic Damen ‘L’ Station Construction
- Green Line Service Suspended This Weekend Again for Cermak Station Construction (Sun-Times)
- Lakeview Ballots to Have Advisory Question on CTA’s Brown Line Flyover (DNA)
- Infamous Block 37 Starts Construction of 690 Apartments Atop Mall, CTA Station (Curbed)
- The Wabash Lights Design Project Will Add 4,000 LEDs to Under ‘L’ Tracks on Wabash (Curbed)
- BRT Inventor Jaime Lerner Says Cities Need “Pinpricks” More Than Megaprojects (MPC)
- Reader Lists its “Best Of” in Transportation, Including Ventra Responses and Smiling CTA Employee
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