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A group of legislators recently pressed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a review of the nation’s Move Over laws following multiple accounts of police officers being struck and killed ...
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In a letter sent last week, Catherine Chase, president of the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, urged New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy to sign into law Senate Bill 824 -- legislation that requires i...
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The Oklahoma Transportation Commission recently announced the creation of Office of Mobility and Public Transit within the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT).
The office was established ...
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will be opening more than $660 million in projects for bids by February.
Approximately 40 percent of CDOT's projects will be in rural areas. The ful...
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The average train length has grown approximately 25 percent since 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study.
The average train lengths in 2017 were between 1.2 and 1.4 mile...
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Illinois officials marked last week the passage of the largest capital plan in its history and the first in nearly 10 years, investing $45 billion into efforts to fix battered infrastructure and spur ...
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The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) will spend $2.07 billion on 1,034 projects throughout the state this year.
The projects are funded by the state and federal motor fuel taxes and are int...
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As the world’s mobility options increase, cities are finding it more and more challenging to manage transportation, and in response, a worldwide coalition of such entities has united to form the Ope...
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The U.S. House this week approved a $383.3 billion package of 2020 appropriations bills, including critical funding for public transit and passenger rail infrastructure.
If passed by both the Sena...
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The Pennsylvania state House recently advanced a resolution that urges the federal government to make the resiliency of the country’s infrastructure a priority.
The resolution asks the federal go...
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The cities of Oakland and San Francisco will benefit from $300 million in Capital Investment Grants (CIG) in the days ahead, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to improve capacity ...
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The Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA’s) Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program and the Special Transportation Circumstances Program will provide more than $...
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At a meeting of the Economic Club of Canada, Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau took the opportunity to address the recent approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project and how he feels i...
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Credit: PA Turnpike
The Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project completed last year to connect the more than 1,900-mile I-95 from Maine to Miami is proving to be a success on several fronts.
The most s...
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Credit: SEPTA
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) recently asked federal lawmakers to protect the eligibility of public infrastructure projects under the government’s employment-based E...
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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Board of Directors and MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board (FMCB) approved this week a five-year, $18.3 billion capital investment plan th...
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The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority recently announced a comprehensive Community Benefits Plan for the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project.
The Community Benefits Plan, and the entirety of t...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced this week a Notice of Funding Opportunity to apply for $297 million in grant funding for the new Port Infrastructure Development Program.
The...
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Credit: Transurban
Ground was broken this month on an anxiously awaited highway project outside of Washington, D.C., one of the latest examples of the public and private sector acting as partners to advance critical sta...
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Chris Spear, CEO of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week as it prepares a transportation reauthorization bill.
A...
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