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Ask Geoffrey

Ask Geoffrey

WTTW News | February 11, 2010, 7:00 pm

What has 14 lanes, is prone to traffic jams, and is cut down the middle by rapid transit? Geoffrey Baer solves that riddle in tonight's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

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