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Traffic signal goal is perfect timing

Chicago Tribune-April 17th 2006
Tara Leitzell says the traffic lights on Ogden Avenue in Chicago are timed so drivers hit every red light.

“Whoever did that has a special dislike for commuters,” said Leitzell, who drives from her home near Ogden and Chicago Avenue to her job at a medical center in Lawndale.

Chicago Transit Authority rider Betsy Roth complains that poorly coordinated traffic signals are at least partly responsible for CTA buses bunching up on Michigan Avenue in the downtown.

“If I miss my bus I can look up Michigan and see a caravan of buses going a block, stopping at …


Off the grid or on, solar and wind power gain

USA Today-April 13th 2006

File Photo Wind turbines stand over a farm in this July 24, 2001 file photo
The wind whips up in Dale Doucette’s expansive backyard, furiously spinning the blades on his 80-foot-tall silver wind turbine and leaving a broad smile on his square-jawed face.
The gusts nudge the voltage on his battery bank and help power Doucette’s wood-carving saw, as well as the PC, printer and recessed lights in his wife Michele’s home-based chiropractic office.

But overcast skies mean the Doucettes’ 10 solar panels won’t be as productive as usual. So his two teenage sons can use the computer …


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