Investigators are looking at speed as a contributing factor to what may have caused a Grand Central-bound Metro-North train to derail while rounding a curve in the Bronx on Sunday, Dec. 1, sending train cars down a slope toward the Harlem River and throwing passengers out win [...]
The Obama administration announced today that it achieved its goal of making HealthCare.gov work for the “vast majority” of users, two months after the wave of bugs and glitches that marred its launch. The troubled “Obamacare” website will be able to [...]
Seven people were killed in separate railroad accidents Sunday, Dec. 1, in New York and New Mexico. Three employees of the Southwest Railroad in New Mexico died when when the train’s locomotive plunged 40 feet into a ravine. In suburban New York City, a Metro-North comm [...]
The offices of the SMART Transportation Division and the UTU Insurance Association will be closed Thursday, Nov. 28, and Friday, Nov. 29, in observance of Thanksgiving Day and
While a day of thanks has been observed in the United States and Canada since the days of our earliest European settlers, this year marks America’s 150th official Thanksgiving celebration. It was all begun, only 25 years before this union’s founding, by President Abraham Li [...]
SEPTA expects to receive $350 million of the bill’s $475 million earmarked for public transportation. The Pennsylvania state government passed a $2.3 billion transportation package that will allow SEPTA to dodge a doomsday budget that would have cut transit services throughou [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A judge on Nov. 25 tore up California’s funding plans for what would be the nation’s first bullet train, issuing separate orders that could force the state to spend months or years redrawing its plans for the $68 billion rail line and could ch [...]
OSAGE CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo Nov. 25 participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new railroad bridge that will eliminate the last chokepoint along the line between Jefferson City and St. Louis. [...]
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) will introduce Dec. 4 legislation to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure in the nation now and into the future. The two bills will establish a series of pilot projects to further study the application of a vehicle-miles-traveled fee and [...]
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) will introduce Dec. 4 legislation to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure in the nation now and into the future. The two bills will establish a series of pilot projects to further study the application of a vehicle-miles-traveled fee and [...]
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