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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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