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New Chief Brings Pro-Pedestrian Ideas To CDOT
Gabe Klein, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation is proposing some controversial pro-pedestrian ideas–perhaps at the expense of drivers. Reducing right turn on...
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Mayor Touts Child Safety To Sell Speed Camera Bill
Mayor Emanuel talks about child safety and speed cameras Monday morning Diamond Robinson. That’s the six year old girl who was struck and killed by a car on the way to a Halloween party October 30th....
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City Emphasizes Pedestrian Safety With New Signs
CDOT workers install new crosswalk sign at Diversey & Wilton Over two years ago, state law changed. Since Illinois Public Act 096-1165 passed in April, 2010, drivers are supposed to stop anytime a...
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City Debuts New Pedestrian Safety Treatments Near Southside School
The Chicago Department of Transportation unveiled the recent construction of new traffic calming and pedestrian safety treatments near one Southside school Thursday afternoon. CDOT Commissioner Gabe...
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Mayor Officially Opens Dearborn Street Bike Lanes Friday
Two bike riders test drive the Dearorn Street bike lanes Friday afternoon City officials hope a new bike lane on Dearborn Street will make travel safer for bicyclists, drivers and pedestrians. Mayor...
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Chicago Chooses Speed Camera Vendor
A technician installs an ATS speed camera in the 6500 block of north Western Ave. for pilot testing this past November Chicago is now one more step closer to having speed cameras on its streets as the...
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City Debuts Congress Parkway Streetscape Lighting
A pedestrian is bathed in purple light as they walk through the tunnel below the Chicago Stock Exchange along Congress Parkway. As a light mist fell Thursday evening outside the Harold Washington...
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City Debuts New All-Way Pedestrian Crosswalk In Loop
CDOT Commissioner Gabe Klein leads a group of pedestrians diagonally across the intersection of State and Jackson Friday morning.Pedestrians were intrigued by a new crosswalk configuration installed...
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City Converts State Street Median to ‘People Plaza’
Loop lunchgoers sit at the city's first "People Plaza" at State St. and Lake St. Friday afternoon. The city has transformed a dirty median on State Street into an oasis for Downtown workers. Friday...
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Chicago Speed Camera Installations Start In August
A technician installs an ATS speed camera in the 6500 block of north Western Ave. for pilot testing this past November.When Chicago debuts its speed camera enforcement program in the next few months,...
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City Announces First Batch Of Speed Camera Locations
Technicians for American Traffic Solutions install a test camera near Warren Park on Western Avenue back in November. Drivers get ready to slow down. The first 12 speed camera locations were announced...
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Chicagoans Share Diverse Opinions On Speed Cameras
One of Chicago's first speed cameras debuts in the 5100 block of North Pulaski. There are a lot of different point of views on Chicago’s spank’n new speed cameras. DNA Info reporter Ted Cox hit the...
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Speed Camera Testing Begins At Four Park Locations
Construction works get ready to secure the base of the speed camera pole in the 5100 block of north Pulaski. Testing of the Chicago’s first automated speed enforcement cameras, installed near four...
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Chicago Announces 50 Speed Camera Locations
A truck mounted crane lifts one of the city's first speed cameras off a flatbed truck to be installed on Pulaski at Foster Monday morning. The Chicago Department of Transportation released a list today...
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City Gives Drivers Brief Reprieve From Speed Camera Fines
Workers use a crane to install a speed camera in the 5200 block of N. Pulaski back in August. Chicago’s first speed cameras were supposed to begin issuing $35 and $100 tickets last week. But the city...
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200,000 Speed Camera Warnings Issued In First 40 Days, $100 Tickets Start...
A new sign warns drivers they are nearing automated speed camera enforcement zone by McKinley Park. Photo credit Casey Cora/DNA Info. The city got a taste of how prolific its new speed cameras could...
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First Speed Cam Tickets Begin At 6 AM Wednesday
Construction works get ready to secure the base of the speed camera pole in the 5100 block of north Pulaski back in August. Chicago’s first two speed cameras will begin issuing $35 and $100 fines...
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Channel 11′s Chicago Tonight has a solid run down on the start of ticketing at the city’s first speed cameras. Interestingly, they report Alderman Anthony Beale (9th) is questioning if one of the...
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Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein Announces Resignation
Chicago Transportation Commisioner Gabe Klein unveils CDOT's Pedestrian Plan in 2012 Gabe Klein will ride his bicycle into the sunset as the city’s Commissioner of Transportation at the end of...
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CDOT Announces Plans For 50 New Speed Camera Locations In 2014
CDOT Commsioner Gabe Klein testifies at City Council budget hearings Wednesday. On Wednesday at City Hall, Commissioner Gabe Klein went through his last Chicago Department of Transportation city budget...
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