Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, October 29
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- CTA awards $2.7 billion Red Line extension contract (Crain’s/Bloomberg)
- Key city panel advances Johnson’s five picks for RTA Board (WTTW)
- Johnson’s transit board appointees advance, but not without criticism (Block Club)
- Opinion: Chicago transit proposal leaves suburban counties in the lurch (Crain’s)
- If Chicago public transit merger happens, Germany has a model to consider (Sun-Times)
- CTA seeks artists for Austin Green Line stations (Austin Weekly)
- Chicago pilot program uses automated cameras to ticket illegally parked drivers (WBBM)
- Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run over the weekend identified as 78-year-old Alfred Slivo of Skokie (ABC 7)
- Metra set to reopen Harvey train station after $21 million renovation (Business Journal)
- CTA spends big despite looming fiscal cliff (The Center Square)
- Rethinking the CTA and Pace (Human Transit)
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