Transportation
January 9, 2017
Rep. Mike Quigley joined Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) President Dorval R. Carter, Senator Dick Durbin, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator Carolyn Flowers to announce a $1 billion funding agreement that will allow the CTA to move forward with the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Program (RPM)—a plan to rebuild the century-old rail lines north of Belmont and improve CTA rail service for decades to come.
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Appropriations
Transportation
January 9, 2017
Mayor Rahm Emanuel took a moment Monday morning to pat his employees on the back for successfully filling out grant applications that netted $1.1 billion from the federal government to make key infrastructure improvements to portions of the Red Line on the North Side.
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January 9, 2017
The following article was published on January 9, 2017. A link to the article can be found here.
By Mitch Dudek
U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley and Jan Schakowsky on Monday questioned Donald Trump's delicate ego hours after the president-elect took to Twitter to slam actress Meryl Streep for harshly criticizing him during an acceptance speech at the Golden Globe awards.
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December 13, 2016
A Chicago-area Democratic congressman says Illinois could miss out on federal infrastructure money under President-election Donald Trump if the state doesn't sort out its budget problems.
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December 12, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump's promise for $1 trillion in infrastructure spending could help Illinois — but only if the state can get its own fiscal house in order, said Chicago-area Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley.
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Appropriations
Transportation
December 9, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), joined Amtrak leadership at Chicago Union Station to discuss transportation infrastructure plans, improvement projects and accessibility priorities for the city of Chicago’s railways as part of his “Mike on the Move” initiative.
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Transportation
December 4, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Transportation secretary is receiving praise from one area of the auto world: the driverless car industry.
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November 14, 2016
Illinois legislators and transportation officials say they can't predict what transportation infrastructure policy will be like under the presidential administration of Donald Trump — the Republican said he is for rebuilding the nation's roads and bridges, but it is unclear how it would be funded.
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Transportation
October 20, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), joined Congressmen Cheri Bustos and Rodney Davis in a bi-partisan congressional panel with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Council on Logistics and Transportation to discuss the importance of transportation and infrastructure in Illinois and efforts Congress is making to continue funding them.
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October 5, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), took his “Mike on the Move” transportation initiative to Divvy, a city wide bicycle ride-sharing system. His visit highlighted the trends of public transit and biking that the city is adapting in order to create a more transportation friendly and safer environment for bicyclists in the City of Chicago.
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Transportation