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For CTA riders, the other shoe dropping
The second and final nine-day closing of the Wells Street Bridge is scheduled to start Friday night, disrupting CTA train service to the Loop again, officials said Monday. For commuters it's the same drill as in early March, when one leaf of the 91-...
Tags: Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, Merchandise Mart, Travel
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Tribeca: 'Stand Clear of the Closing Doors' Draws Its Power from Hurricane Sandy
ReutersApr 19 (TheWrap.com) - When Sam Fleischner set out to film "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors," he fully expected the kind of headaches and logistical nightmares that crop up when operating a shoe-string budget while directing a cast comprised of many non-...Tags: New York City, Film Festivals, Arts and Culture, Autism, Hurricanes
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Baltimore-area residents near Boston Marathon blasts
Ryan McGrath and other Baltimore-area runners were relaxing after the Boston Marathon, refueling with some burritos, when they heard the blasts. "I thought maybe it's one of those boat-type things that just shoots off a cannon every day," said McGrath,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Baltimore Hotels, United States Naval Academy, Sports
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Review: Nora Ephron's 'Lucky Guy' is great news
NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author titled "Journalism: A Love Story." That's a pretty good description of the drama, Ephron's valentine to...Tags: New York City, Peter Scolari, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Tom Hanks
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Transit police warn travelers to be alert as mobile device thefts rise
Maryland transit police are warning travelers to be alert on trains and buses, amid a long-running rash of mobile-device thefts targeting riders who were texting, listening to music or talking on the phone. The Maryland Transit Administration has...
Tags: Criminals, New York City, Science and Technology, Travel Alerts, Laws
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Letters: They way Wilshire was
Re "It all begins on Wilshire," March 24 I have always been fascinated by Wilshire Boulevard, the great thoroughfare analyzed by Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. While I had a job on Wilshire near Vermont Avenue as a twentysomething in...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Transportation, Travel, Subway Transportation Industry
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Bomb materials linked to suspect in killing of prisons chief
The man accused of killing Colorado's prisons chief had bomb-making materials in his trunk when he got into a highway shootout in Texas, according to court documents released Tuesday. The gun that killed Colorado prisons director Tom Clements last...
Tags: Tom Clements, Prisons, Evan Spencer Ebel, Shootings, Explosions
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Off-duty Border Patrol agent involved in fatal two-vehicle collision
Digital Media News EditorA 26-year-old off-duty Border Patrol agent died in a car collision Friday afternoon southeast of El Centro. Agent Francisco Puga with the El Centro Station died at the scene of the collision at the intersection of Bowker and McCabe roads while on his way...Tags: Highway Transportation, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents
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Letters: Ideas for a more livable L.A.
Re "Broken civic promise," Critic's Notebook, March 3 I was glad to read Christopher Hawthorne's piece on Los Angeles' missed opportunities, miscalculations and wrong choices regarding the creation of our public spaces and public transit systems....
Tags: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Eli Broad, Highway Transportation, New York City, Transportation
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CTA bridges service gap with a few missteps
Tribune reporterThe CTA and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were proved correct Monday on their predictions that Brown Line riders would be inconvenienced by work that has closed the Wells Street rail bridge downtown until next week. Mislabeled Brown Line trains and spotty customer...Tags: Transportation, Midway Airport, Chicago Transit Authority, Merchandise Mart, O'Hare International Airport
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Los Angeles' major public spaces remain broken works in progress
Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticLos Angeles, more than most cities, has defined itself by continual bursts of expansion and an unflagging optimism about its place in the world. But as the city has grown to a population nearing 4 million, we've neglected some major holes in the civic...Tags: Arts and Culture, Union Pacific Corporation, Transportation, Architecture, Georgetown
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Why is El Centro post office so dirty?
On Wednesday morning about 8:45 a.m., I went into the El Centro Post Office to get my mail and I couldn’t believe how dirty it was in there. There was trash thrown all over the place, sticky stuff spilt on the floor and the aisle where my box is...Tags: Lobbying, Politics
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