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While Uber provides a valuable service to the Chicago Metropolitan area, the company’s drivers are not required to follow the same rules and regulations as taxicabs. As a result, the city’s taxi services formed a protest in February 2015 to make city officials take notice of the injustice of their policies and rules. The San Francisco-based transportation giant Uber and other ridesharing companies are making… Read More »Will Uber Wipe Out Chicago’s Taxi Services?

Eventually, there will be self-driving cars. When they will hit the road safely is another question. Former guesses on when they hit the road have been wrong so far. Every year there is a new prognostication about this being the year of the self-driving car. And each year, the big expectation had to be walked back. Usually, this embarrassing walk back gets a lot less… Read More »The Myth Yet to Come

It was not that many years ago when Chicago’s then-Mayor Richard Daley and other city officials hastily agreed to a 75-year-old long-term lease over 36,000 city parking meters. In exchange for the concession agreement, Chicago received nearly $1.2 billion upfront. While at first this appeared to be a win-win scenario, overall the process seemed rushed and lacked transparency. In no time at all, parking rates… Read More »Revisiting Chicago’s Parking Regulation Disaster

At least two died, and three dozen were injured on a tour bus. Most importantly, the bus was carrying volunteers responding to the terrible flooding in Louisiana. It crashed Monday. Also, the bus driver was an illegal immigrant. Consequently, many of the injured victims were first responders. The driver was later identified as Denis Yasmir Amaya Rodriguez. Most important, Rodriguez is from Honduras. Last, he had no… Read More »Two Flood Volunteers Killed in LA Bus Crash Caused by Illegal Alien