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A $58 million grant from the state’s environmental protection agency is bankrolling 27 new electric buses for Pace and 30 for the CTA — more than doubling the number in the city and suburbs, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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A textbook example of why Chicago has become dysfunctional…..
Another $58M tax dollars forcibly taken from hard working Citizens pockets…wasted on technology and a product that does not work. Spent with companies who are bankrupt. Doesn’t anyone in Springfield have a damn brain? There is no Logic here…
There should be a DOGE in Illinois.
Are the CTA/ PACE EV buses to be supplied by bankrupt Lion Electric made in the bankrupt state of Illinois with taxpayer $?
The reporting didn’t say. Maybe they are from Protera. In Bloomington Normal, most of the Protera electric buses they bought are inoperable.