Drivers union takes swipe at CTA in full page ad
2009-12-04 13:00:00 In a full page ad in Thursday's Sun-Times, the CTA's drivers union took shots at "bloated" CTA management and ineffective state leadership."Given the vital importance of public transportation, it's bewildering that through the years, CTA management and state lawmakers have not come up with a permanent long-term funding plan for mass transit." More specifically: "Decades of systemic mismanagement and political interests have paralyzed the opportunity to produce a stable funding source for the riding public." Then it trots out the tired old argument that the city only give the CTA $3 million -- the same amount for 20 years. I say it's tired because former CTA President Ron Huberman answered those critics when I asked him.Finally, here are the union's...
CTA bus drivers union weighs strike to protest layoffs
2009-11-04 13:00:00 The CTA bus drivers union is considering a strike to protest planned layoffs of about 1,800 members of the Local 241 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, according to a CBS2 Chicago report.The union president, Darrell Jefferson, goes on to insist the CTA's budget deficit is actually $500 million, not the $300 million cited by the CTA. But the union will continue to resist any givebacks, including furlough days.Furthermore, Jefferson says: "Metropolitan Transit Act says, in section 28, that management and exempt people should make up only 3 percent of the total number of employees. We estimate CTA being somewhere like 15 to 18 percent. Laying off people and you're still gonna be heavy in management, I think you're asking for...
School News: Fenger Followup, Pilsen Parents, Teen Drivers
2009-10-21 14:34:00 Student exonerated in beating won't return to Fenger Sun TimesThe mother of a teenager exonerated in the Sept. 24 beating death of a fellow Fenger High School student will get to stay in her Roseland home, but she won't send her son back to that school, she said. On a tour of Fenger, north suburban parents confront a new ground zero Medill An assistant principal said the money spent on each student is not limited to books, supplies and the teacher's time. Fenger must also provide food, bus passes, medicine and additional security to ensure students' well being.North Shore activists tour Fenger for school funding lesson TribuneThey hope to influence their North Shore neighbors by educating them on how the...
Chicago Ranked #1 Destination Drivers Should Avoid
2009-09-10 16:23:00 Chicago has a lot to be proud about. But one recent top ranking is something this city should not be crowing about....
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Study: GPS systems with real-time traffic can save drivers four days per ye
2009-08-31 18:49:00 From Autoblog: In Los Angeles, the 101/405 interchange is so congested that in 2002 it was determined that 27,144 hours per year were wasted trying to get from one freeway to the other. That's over 1,100 days. Per year. Not only does that number sound wildly low, but we guarantee i
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2009-08-27 00:30:00 The much-debated cash-for-clunkers program generated plenty of action in Illinois. Trade-in action amounted to $143.6 million in federal rebates, or $11.13 per capita -- fourth highest in the country. In the most popular trade, Illinoisans dumped a Ford Explorer and drove away in a Toyota Corolla. More fun details in our story. ...
Bus Drivers Don't Want to Personally Pay for Red Light Tickets
2009-08-20 01:10:00 City bus drivers filed a complaint today against the Regional Transportation Authority to stop the practice of requiring the bus drivers to personally pay for their own red light tickets. According to the complaint, beginning in 2006, "red light cameras" were installed at certain street intersections throughout the western suburbs that, when activated by a vehicle driving through a red light, captured the vehicle's license plate. The complaint goes on to state that the defendant (specifically, the Pace West division of the Pace Suburban Bus Division of the RTA) then began a practice of reassigning the tickets to the individual bus operators....
CTA gets much tougher on distracted drivers, toughens policy on use of elec
2009-08-06 13:00:00 The CTA is cracking down much harder on bus and train operators who use an electronic devices while on the job, the transit agency announced Wednesday."I've observed the use of these devices and agree that it is a distraction," said CTA President Richard L. Rodriguez. "From my conversations with customers and feedback sent to the CTA, it is clear that there is a genuine concern about the safety of using these items while driving. Research data validates that driving distracted is unsafe. We are taking these steps to reinforce our commitment to providing a safe environment for customers, employees and the general public."Thank you, President Rodriguez.The new policy -- effective immediately -- accelerates the disciplinary process for any operator using or...
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Bus Tracker info puts drivers at forefront of war on bus bunching
2009-07-06 13:00:00 In this second report from my chat with CTA President Richard Rodriguez, he emphasizes the key role bus drivers play in reducing bus bunching "Bus Tracker is a great tool for us," Roriguez said. "Managers are using the information from Tracker to monitor and manage bunching."And now we're looking at drivers differently -- they are the boss."Then Rodriguez recounts an occasion when he was riding a bus and the light ahead was green, but the driver slowed down."The driver slows as the light changes, and he points to a gadget above his head (a mobile data terminal). It told him to stay instead of going through the light to maintain the proper gap. So it's not just the executive staff...
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New BMW System Could Aid Drivers in a Medical Emergency
2009-06-10 02:12:00 More often than not, people suffering from certain medical conditions will elect not to drive due to the risk of causing an accident should their condition flare up. However, this problem may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new system being developed by BMW.
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Innovative Car Insurance Company Onna-Onna Alerts Drivers To Bad Weather
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Random Thoughts: Parenting, Anal Rape, and Texting Teenage Drivers
2009-05-23 22:56:00 I’m hard on bad parents because they are ruining the world. They park their kids in front of inappropriate television shows or violent video games. They ignore them. They feed them garbage. They put work and happy hour before family. They over-medicate and often don’t teach their kids to take no for an answer. Then these same parents act surprised when their fat, high, spoiled, or stupid teenagers make awful choices. Instead of looking within for fault, they blame others and hire high-priced lawyers to continue the cycle. Good parents sometimes make mistakes. But bad parents are worse. Bad parents are collectively responsible for failing schools, high crime rates, youth violence, obese children, and a host of other ills plaguing society. And then their kids have more kids and the cycle keeps repeating itself. When are we going to stop the madness? Here are some local stories about a few bad seeds whose parents should be investigated right along with their kids. Four stu...
National Motorists Association ranks states most hostile to drivers
2009-05-22 20:46:00 From Autoblog: For as long as there has been traffic enforcement, drivers from different states have gathered to compare notes on whose police and legal systems are the most oppressive and toughest to deal with. While most such conversations rarely progress beyond the anecdotal,
Why Don't Car Drivers Wear Helmets?
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What Bonehead Move By Other Drivers Do You Fear The Most?
2009-05-15 07:02:00 For me, it's the fear of another driver senselessly jackrabbitting out of a side-street into my path. In the last two weeks, I've had to lock up the wheels and lean on the horn on multiple occasions to thwart some fool intent on getting T-boned when I had the right of way. I'm not sure
On Expensive Cars with Bad Drivers
2009-05-09 01:10:00 As I was driving west across Kansas during one of my cross country drives, I watched with amazement as a man driving a rusting maroon (maybe it once had been red) sports car zipped back and forth from lane to lane, passing this car and that, but never cutting anyone off. I’d rarely seen ...
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Drive Alert Master: Wearable Geeky Gadget Keeps Drivers Alert Behind The Wh
2009-04-12 12:00:00 For many, when driving at night, or even long hours during the day; they run the risk of nodding off behind the wheel and coming to terms with their own mortality. Without a fellow passenger on hand to keep tabs on the driver's alertness, falling asleep behind the wheel is a very real danger. The Drive Alert Master is a smart technology that keeps drivers awake through annoyance, just like having your spouse in the passenger seat!
Jabra Launches SP200 Speakerphone - Allows Drivers to Take Calls While Driv
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First four races, five drivers to watch so far in the 2009 NASCAR Cup Serie
2009-03-16 19:00:00 As I (a NASCAR fan, blogger, writer) sits here the Monday after this past weekend’s NASCAR off weekend where I spent most of Sunday writing articles for RaceDriven.com and watching DVD’s, you know, Cars, Smokey and the Bandit, the Italian Job, and of course Jeff Dunham, I’ve learned several different things over the course of the past four weeks in NASCAR.After a very boring and long off season, it was perfect to kick off the 2009 NASCAR Cup Series season with seeing the green flag wave at Daytona and hearing those famous words “Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, Let’s go racin’ boys”, now we are four races in or four weeks into the season, I’m still excited, but what happened over the past four weeks in NASCAR? What five drivers to watch starting this coming weekend at Bristol, Martinsville and beyond?First what a group of races we have had so far in 2009, we started the 2009 season off with none other than the 51st Daytona 500, a race that I describe in three parts “Firs...
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2009-02-02 16:55:00 Jeff Burton says the time has come for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers to do more to reach out to fans. That, the Richard Childress Racing veteran believes, is the best way for the sport to make...
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A Problem of the Brain, Not the Hands: Group Urges Phone Ban for Drivers
2009-01-13 14:14:00 From NYT > Science: In half a dozen states and many cities and counties, it is illegal to use a hand-held cellphone while driving — but perfectly all right to talk on a hands-free device. The theory is that it's distracting to hold a phone and drive with just one hand. But
Study Shows Drivers Are Distracted Most by Cell Phones
2008-12-01 16:21:00 A new study conducted by the University of Utah found that cell phones are more of a distraction than anything else for drivers.
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Ford's MyKey System Limits Young Drivers
2008-10-13 17:07:00 Parents will be the first to admit that one of the most stressful things they have ever gone through or will be going through is when it comes time for their teens to start driving. The dangers that present themselves are numerous and the temptations are just common. Ford is hoping to alleviate some of these worries with a new system they have named MyKey.
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Taxi Drivers 'Have Brain Sat-Nav'
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Attention All You Crazy Drivers In The Fair Oaks Neighborhood: Those Traff
2008-09-11 06:15:00 Having spent much of my life in former British colonies, I am well versed in various British-isms: marmite (yuck), lifts (not elevators), sprinkling my words with extraneous u’s … and the correct use of roundabouts — or “traffic circles” as they’re commonly known on this side of the Atlantic. Sadly, many of the folks here in Silicon Valley seem to have missed that part of driver’s ed. To reduce the tempatation of using the streets of Fair Oaks (in Menlo Park) as a convenient shortcut to avoid delays on Marsh Road and on Middlefield Road, the local neighborhood installed roundabouts traffic circles a while ago. Most drivers slow down as they navigate around these obstacles, but some of the more aggressive drivers see them as a handy and challenging obstacle course, careening around them at full tilt, seemingly on two wheels. Both the fast and the considerate drivers, however, still don’t seem to understand the most basic rule o...
Concrete Chicane Keeps Drivers on the Curvy and Narrow in China
2008-08-22 15:19:00 From Autoblog: We don't have much information on this, but apparently this theme-park looking concrete chicane is in use on a roadway in China to keep speeds down. The Not So Great Wall of China is about two-feet high and one-hundred serpentine feet long.We can't imagine what peopl
Nissan brake-resistance system steers drivers out of trouble
2008-08-13 19:58:00 From Crave: The gadget blog: Nissan brakes may soon be stopping and steering vehicles. It looks like Nissan drivers of the future will have another electronic nanny nudging their vehicles toward safer driving. Nissan has recently demonstrated to Reuters a brake-resistance device
Minn. Cops Fuming Over Drivers Who Hit Squad Cars
2008-07-24 19:22:00 A drunk driver slammed into the vehicle Police Officer Paul Oelrich had just pulled over during a routine traffic stop in Burnsville, Minn. Oelrich was hit by flying debris and thrown into a ditch, according to MyFOX Twin Cities. The person behind the wheel, 30-year-old Devin Halden, was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence in ...
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Audi Pilot Program Tells Drivers How to Squeeze the Lemon
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Beware of Women Drivers !
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F1 drivers at the 35th annual Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races
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Heroes and Legend drivers at this year's Goodwood Festival Of Speed
2008-06-10 00:00:00 Click on the picture to enlarge With Father?s Day just around the corner (Sunday 15 June), Goodwood is encouraging all good sons and daughters to show just how much they appreciate their dad, by treating him to a visit for this year?s Festival of Speed, being held at Goodwood House, near Chichester, West Sussex, on 11-13 July. The Festival of Speed is firmly established as the world?s biggest celebration of the history of motor sport. Your hero (your dad) will be able to see a huge number of his favourite motor sport heroes in action, as many compete against the clock on the challenging 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill. The theme of this year?s Festival is ?Hawthorn to Hamilton ? Britain?s Love Affair with World Motor Sport?. Britain has always played a key role in the global motor racing industry, forging successful relationships with the rest of the motor sport world. From Mike Hawthorn ? who used a Ferrari to become Britain?s first Formula 1 World Champion fifty years ago in 1958 ?... |
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