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A couple of travelers prepare to board a CTA train at O'Hare International Airport in May 2015.

The limited thinking behind the O’Hare-Loop high-speed rail idea

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is searching — again — for a private firm to develop a “high-speed” rail route from downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport. Three things are wrong with...

AMTRAK SUBSIDY

August 9, 2021 at 1:31 p.m.

Tribune columnist Jon Margolis is right on target about the hypocrisy of Americans who protest a modest subsidy for Amtrak while ignoring the lavish subsidies we pour into our streets...

AIRPORT FEASIBILITY

August 9, 2021 at 11:39 a.m.

For years, critics of wasteful government spending have protested that politicians hire consultants not so much to study problems and assess the costs and benefits of solutions as to "prove"...

HIGH-SPEED RAIL, AIR CAN WORK TOGETHER

August 9, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

In his Feb. 20 letter, "Flunking the test for high-speed rail," Air Transport Association President James E. Landry makes comparisons between high-speed trains and commercial aviation that range from the...

TRAINS TO BE A TOOL

August 10, 2021 at 12:10 a.m.

Those of us who have been advocating intercity high-speed passenger trains applaud the Tribune`s publica-tion of John Schmeltzer`s story on the French TGV system projected for Texas (Transpor-tation, Jan. 12)....

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