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US Traffic Growing at Fastest Rate Since 1997 Traffic on U.S. roads is growing at the fastest rate in almost two decades, as cheap gasoline, coupled with a strong economy, encourages motorists to use...
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Obama Signs $305 Billion Transportation Bill President Obama signed into a law a five-year, $305 billion highway bill on Friday, with just hours to spare before the scheduled expiration of the nation’s...
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Obama, Foxx Press for Higher Transportation Funding; FAST Act Draws Caveats President Obama and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx urged Congress to find additional funds for infrastructure...
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Kansas Contractors Warn About Impact of Raids on Highway Funds An organization that represents highway construction companies is launching a campaign to discourage any more raids on the state Highway...
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Nebraska Governor Says Legislature Needs to Consider Transportation Needs Gov. Pete Ricketts says he is looking at more than just property tax relief in the upcoming legislative session. 2015 Was a...
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California DOT Awarded Safety Grant to Replace Traffic Data Capturing Equipment Caltrans will replace its current traffic data capturing equipment to better collect information and digital images on...
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New York Governor’s Infrastructure Plans Raise Funding Questions Governor Andrew Cuomo and members of his administration have spent the last 10 days traveling the state, announcing infrastructure...
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Indiana Transportation Planners Hope to Fill Region’s Gaps The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission will study the feasibility of filling 22 gaps in regional transportation routes that...
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Virginia Has New Way to Rate Its Transportation Projects The Virginia state government on Thursday took its first crack at a system meant to take some of the politics out of picking transportation...
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Super Bowl 50 Presents Daunting Challenge for Bay Area Transportation Planners Ever since Levi’s Stadium opened in 2014, the shiny new home of the 49ers has drawn more attention for the difficulty of...
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Colorado DOT, with Mountains of Info to Sort Through, Seeks First Chief Data Officer The growing mass of data available to the Colorado Department of Transportation has the state agency on the lookout...
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Nebraska ‘Infrastructure Bank’ for Roads Draws Outside Support Nebraska’s road infrastructure has fallen into a rut, the chairman of the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee told senators...
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Texas MPOs, TxDOT Partner on Transportation App for El Paso Metropia’s next generation transportation app is coming to El Paso. Metropia’s launch in El Paso is a joint project of the Texas Department...
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Island Transportation Planning Organization Formed in Washington State State, county, municipal and other entities on Wednesday officially formed the Island Transportation Planning Organization, a...
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Redmond, Washington Gets Rid of One-Way Streets After 30 years the city is getting rid of one-way streets. The goal is to make downtown Redmond an urban center. MPOs Dallas Transportation Planners...
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I-70 Toll Lane Helping Ease Traffic, Says Colorado DOT The 13-mile tolled express lane on eastbound Interstate 70 from Empire to Idaho Springs has been open for a little more than three months, and...
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FASTLANE Grants Energize Freight Planning Conversations in Tucson, Charlotte and New Orleans As we continue with our conversations on freight planning in cities around the country, we are delighted to...
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Washington’s Rail Car Program for Produce May Be Revived The state Department of Transportation is looking into whether to restore a rail car program for produce that it suspended four years ago. Texas...
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Maryland General Assembly Overrides Veto of Transportation Bill The Maryland Senate voted Friday to override two more of Gov. Larry Hogan‘s vetoes, allowing bills on transportation projects and Anne...
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Maryland Seeks $155 Million from Feds to Clear Freight Bottleneck Beneath Baltimore The state and the railroad CSX Transportation have agreed to a plan to remove a bottleneck for freight shipping...
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