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Transportation Issues Daily Last week new House Transportation Chair Bill Shuster outlined the issues and legislation his Committee will focus on during 2013. Preparing for the renewal of surface transportation programs – the modification and renewal of MAP-21 – is of course on the list. Shuster addresses what will be the toughest issue: “Key to […]
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Transportation Issues Daily In late November the Department of Energy awarded $11 million to twenty projects to speed adoption of alternative fuel vehicles. It’s part of DOE’s Clean Cities initiative, which is designed to support community-led efforts to develop the infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles and reduce dependence on oil. “These projects address a range […]
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Transportation Issues Daily
President Obama has resurrected his proposal to invest $50 billion in infrastructure and wants it included in the fiscal cliff deal. Republicans were immediately critical of the proposal.
Details were not released, but it is assumed that the proposal is similar to those previously announced by President Obama in 2010 and 2011. Those proposals have not passed the Democratic Senate or the Republican House. It’s debatable how hard the White House has pushed Congress to pass the proposal.
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Transportation Issues Daily Here is part two of our series of photos of Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. Grand Central Station was nearly empty on Tuesday. Image – Hiroko Masuike, NYT. People peeked into the closed Bowling Green subway station after Hurricane Sandy hit New York. Image – Justin Lane, European Pressphoto […]
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Transportation Issues Daily
Here are a handful of photos about Hurricane Sandy’s impact on transportation facilities and travelers. First up is a video from the New York Times’ Erik Olsen.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the unprecedented problems with public transportation, some commuters have chosen a different kind of transport: the two-wheeled, human-powered kind:
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily The fiscal cliff and automatic budget cuts could be avoided by cutting$11.4 billion from federal transportation spending in 2013 and $187 billion over ten years. The recommended reductions from Taxpayers for Common Sense are part of a $2 trillion package of cuts to “inefficient, ineffective, or wasteful” programs and projects that would solve the […]
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily Lloyd Brown has done it again, publishing another must-read story, “Five transportation stories that will shape the year ahead,” that gives us a serious case of envy. Here are the five issues, but you’ll have to read the transportation communication guru’s whole story here to learn why Brown picks these issues. Funding MAP-21 […]
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily Preliminary estimates released by the White House last Friday indicate funding for highways, transit and rail programs in 2013 will be cut by about $1.5 billion on January 2 if automatic budget cuts take place as scheduled. Shrinking or preventing those cuts requires Congress and the White House to strike a budget […]
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily First-half 2012 sales of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles hold some good and bad news for transportation and environment stakeholders. January-June sales of electric-only cars rose 6% – an increase of just 234 cars – over 2011. A little over 4100 EVs were purchased. However, plug-in hybrid vehicles sales increased 381% in […]
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily Can’t we stop wringing our hands about the concerns of establishing a National Infrastructure Bank and just do it? For years a National Infrastructure Bank has been touted as the “next greatest idea” for financing our most pressing infrastructure needs. But we don’t seem to get to the next step. I’ve been […]
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