A1 The economic burden was felt citywide -- hundreds of thousands of children skipping school, commuters spending extra hours shuttling to work and back.
Kids going to school, commuters rushing for the train, nannies with toddlers -- all abandoned the overgrown, bumpy sidewalks, preferring instead to fight with traffic.
Parents dropping children at school, commuters waiting for the bus and customers in coffee shops spoke in hushed tones, sighing and shaking their heads.
Several financial institutions are already lined up to make investments totalling $1.7 billion, among them Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Ullico, Citibank and JPMorgan.The background to this is that Mr Emanuel wants to spend about $7 billion to rebuild the city of Chicago on everything from streets, to parks, to the water system, schools, commuter rail and the main airport.
While many of these schools are commuter schools, students who opt for the full college experience including living on campus and in dorms were possibly having to pay about $7,705 more.
Other candidates for the dean's job promised to focus initially on upgrading the downtown Washington campus, which appeared to be a victim of the school's commuter image.
The four Florida schools are mostly commuter schools, so having a big-time football program makes them feel as though they have joined the big time — right alongside mighty Michigan.
The jam was extraordinary: police and ambulances had trouble responding to emergencies, children were kept from school and commuters were hours late for work.
When the traffic jam began, delaying school buses, commuters, and emergency vehicles responding to a cardiac arrest, he repeatedly contacted the Port Authority, and got no response.
The sharp rise in taxes, which began under Nicolas Sarkozy, the previous president, as part of an effort to reduce the government's budget deficit, is all the more resented at a time when the French are no longer convinced that their public services underperforming state schools, overcrowded commuter trains are so much better than those that cost less in other countries.
