U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced Thursday new details of the $715 billion INVEST in America A...
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Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), a 17-member board charged with approving funding allocations for the state’s transportation system, recently approved the Fiscal Year 2022 budge...
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President Joe Biden announced he and a group of more than 20 Congressmembers had reached a deal on a new $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is...
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Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that the planned Howard Street Tunnel expansion project in Baltimore can move forward now that it has received a Finding of No Significant Impact as part of its en...
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U.S. Sens Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate Majority Whip, and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced legislation Monday designed to improve federal support for rural transportation and infrastructure by creating ...
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Federal, state, and local leaders gathered Friday, on the 150th anniversary of the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) tunnel’s groundbreaking, to unveil new plans for the B&P Tunnel Replacement Program. ...
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation recently advanced legislation containing multiple provisions led by U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KA). Moran’s provisions in the Surfa...
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Milton grant funding to extend a rail line to the city’s new chocolate factory. The Transportation Economic Assistance (TEA) gr...
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As part of its 2021 APTA-UITP Rail Conference, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released a new report on assessing high-performance rail’s return on investment. The report, ...
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced $250 million in federal funding allocations Friday for transit projects. The funding is part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and w...
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The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved two major pieces of legislation to modernize America’s roads, bridges, highways, rail, transit, and wastewater systems. Com...
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U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the committee, introduced legislation authorizing $7...
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Five Georgia projects are included in the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation (INVEST) in America Act, the five-year, $547 billion surface transportation reauthori...
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The INVEST in America Act, the federal surface transportation bill, includes three Denver area projects totaling nearly $20 million that will improve the safety and efficiency of the city’s transpor...
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Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would invest $95 billion in passenger and freight rail. The five-year $547 billion INVEST in America Act would provide funding f...
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Caltrain, which provides commuter rail service from San Francisco to San Jose, recently announced it has delayed the launch of its electrified service until late 2024. The rail line was created in...
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Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said Friday the company opposes CSX Transportation’s acquisition of New England regional Pan Am Railways because the deal, in its current form, ‘represents a significant thre...
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U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit; and Donald M. Payne...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed the state’s budget, which includes $9.44 billion for the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) Work Program, a five-year plan of transportation pr...
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New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently completed major construction on its East Side Access project connecting the Long Island Rail Road to a new 350,000-square-foot pa...
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