March 1st, 2010
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Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted, the Transportation Department said in a statement late Sunday. The reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning [...]
November 12th, 2009
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Now labor unions are questioning whether the industry is paying the price, and the Obama administration is listening.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was holding a forum Thursday to discuss the state of the airline industry, which is mired in a severe economic slump and blamed for using a business model critics say undermines safety. The industry [...]
October 22nd, 2009
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AMR Corp.s American, the second-largest U.S. carrier, and British Airways Plc, Europes third biggest, seek permission to jointly price, market and schedule international flights without risking prosecution for anticompetitive behavior.
The Transportation Department, which faces an Oct. 31 deadline to decide and [...]
September 25th, 2009
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All are being stymied by a legislative deadlock that has stalled projects in Missouri and throughout the U.S. With revenue from fuel taxes declining, lawmakers are arguing over how to renew a six-year, $286.5 billion spending law that expires in six days.
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July 21st, 2009
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A Senate panel is scheduled to vote today on legislation that would require airlines to let passengers off planes three hours after they become marooned by waits typically caused by weather or heavy traffic. Delta Air Lines Inc., AMR Corp.s American Airlines and other carriers are fighting the plan through their trade group, which says [...]
July 10th, 2009
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Led by the senior Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., committee members argued simultaneously that the government was spending too much money and not spending it fast enough.
They argued that projects are mired in red tape, that the slow pace of transportation spending is to blame for rising unemployment, [...]
June 23rd, 2009
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In the earliest stages of the investigation into Mondays subway accident in Washington, which killed nine people and injured more than 70 others, the National Transportation Safety Board focused on why the passenger compartments within the subway cars fared so poorly. The demolished train cars spent much of Tuesday frozen on the tracks, one with [...]
June 18th, 2009
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Still, they are about to collide.
Rep. James Oberstar, chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, plans to unveil a six-year, $500 billion bill to overhaul transportation programs on Thursday. He wants Congress to pass the bill by Oct. 1, which is when the current law that authorizes transportation programs expires.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood went to [...]
April 13th, 2009
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Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood planned Monday to highlight the administrations 2,000th project funded through the $48.1 billion allocated for transportation infrastructure in the stimulus package. Administration aides note the six-weeks-old law is already producing jobs nationwide, including the days highlighted project in hard-hit Kalamazoo County, Mich.
That $68 million project [...]
March 27th, 2009
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The government agency argued that some carriers and airports would stop reporting incidents for fear the public would misinterpret the data and hold it against them. The reporting is voluntary because the FAA rejected a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation 10 years ago to make it mandatory.
The agencys formal secrecy proposal came just after FAA [...]