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Take opportunity to make Illinois a true innovator
It's been about five months since federal stimulus dollars were dispersed, and everyone's analyzing whether the funding is creating enough — and the right — jobs. Recovery funding was intended to boost a weak market, so counting jobs is one measure of success. But the American Recovery…
Obama and the Cities
The new president has a whole new notion of urban policy. For the past 40 years, through the Great Society initiatives of Lyndon Johnson, the Enterprise Zone programs of HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, and the Hope VI public housing projects of the past decade and a half, urban policy in America has…
Transit funding: Changes Obama should count on
It's almost game time for President-elect Barack Obama, and wisely, economic recovery is the first item in his playbook. The administration-in-waiting understands that any economic recovery package must not only be a fiscal defibrillator but also signal seismic change from a system…
Parking fee hike should fund community improvements
The city’s parking meter rate increases may seem steep, but what if those revenue increases led to more and better transit options and community improvements? Increasing parking meter rates can help manage demand for Chicago ’s limited parking spaces and curb excess traffic…
Green Lanes Coming to Illinois Tollway
Chicago-area drivers could start seeing Green Lanes on major tollways in a few years. The Illinois Tollway board Thursday approved the plan aimed at reducing congestion. You may have seen them in other states like California or Minnesota -- lanes geared toward carpoolers and public…
Council looks to Obama for help
The past experiences of other presidential hometowns hasn't diminished our audacity to hope in Chicago and the suburbs. MarySue Barrett, president of the Metropolitan Planning Council, hopes the the first president from a big city since Theodore Roosevelt will create policy that…
Another report calls for new retail, transit for Westhaven
A new El stop at Damen and Lake streets. A commercial corridor bustling with small cafes and restaurants, copy shops and dry cleaners along Damen south to the United Center . New curbs and planters, park benches and quaint plazas. That's the vision for Westhaven presented to…
Traffic squanders $7.3B a year in wasted time, fuel
Traffic congestion costs the Chicago area an estimated $7.3 billion a year in wasted time and fuel, far more than previously believed, according to a report being released on Tuesday by the Metropolitan Planning Council.
Traffic congestion's toll is $7.3 billion a year in Chicago area
Traffic congestion in the Chicago area costs $7.3 billion a year in lost time and wasted fuel, almost double previous projections, according to a study released Tuesday.
Planners put $7.3 billion price tag - and climbing - on congestion
A new report issued today by the Metropolitan Planning Council puts the problem of congestion in terms of wasted dollars, air pollution and extra jobs that could be added to the metropolitan area if it didn't take us so long to get around.

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