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More Ideas for Improving Rail Service at O’Hare Right Now
Last week's Streetblog Chicago post about Mayor Rahm Emanuel's O'Hare express train proposal struck a chord with readers, with dozens of retweets and almost 100 comments. Lots of people agreed that the existing CTA Blue Line run between the Loop and "the world's busiest airport" is already a relatively fast, high-quality service. Many readers also concurred that an airport express would be costly to build and expensive to ride, which makes the project a bad use of taxpayer money that could be better spent improving neighborhood transit.
July 9, 2015
Single, Universal Taxi App Could Level Playing Field
The City of Chicago wants to set up a centralized, online taxi dispatching system that would accept anyone's request for a cab. This new tool could let the local taxi industry catch up to the user-responsiveness of increasingly popular taxi alternatives like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar. Those companies' easy-to-use apps, and sometimes lower fares, are tempting riders out of conventional taxicabs
November 4, 2014
Fifteen Complaints Filed Every Day About Reckless Taxi Drivers
The current debate over rideshare legislation within City Hall and in Springfield has aired the resentment that Chicagoans have towards their taxicab drivers.
May 2, 2014
Cabbie Who Killed Eric Kerestes Seriously Injured Man in 1998, Still Driving
Not long after taxi driver John Kesse killed Eric Kerestes last summer, another of Kesse’s victims contacted me. On August 14 the cabbie was speeding down Milwaukee Avenue at 6 a.m. when he blew through the Milwaukee/Chicago/Ogden intersection, jumped a curb and struck Kerestes, who was walking to the Blue Line’s Chicago station. The pedestrian was thrown 200 feet; he died at the scene.
April 18, 2013