Tag: Transportation

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Top Dem wants to ‘kidnap’ tax foe Grover Norquist to help win new gas tax

Paul Bedard · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Google tries ferry service for workers in East Bay

Washington Examiner · February 3, 2014 8:12 am

Federal officials are planning to announce Monday whether automakers should be required to equip new cars and light trucks with technology that enables vehicles to communicate with each other to prevent collisions. Such vehicle-to-vehicle communication could transform traffic safety. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Feds to decide on car-to-car communications

Joan Lowy · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Rail trustee sees 9-figure fund for Quebec victims

David Sharp · January 31, 2014 8:41 pm

Appellate court will hear high-speed rail case

Juliet Williams · January 29, 2014 10:09 pm

Texting-while-driving law nets 725 Va. convictions

Steve Szkotak · January 29, 2014 9:23 pm

The National Transportation Safety Board onThursday Jan. 23, 2014 asked for stricter safety measures for transporting crude oil by rail. One proposal by the NTSB would call for railroads to have careful route plannng for trains with hazardous materials and to avoid populated areas. Above, a line of tanker cars used to carry crude oil in the Mandan railyard on Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme)

Backers: Report on rail risks boosts Keystone XL

Matthew Daly · January 24, 2014 1:25 pm

FILE - In this June 18, 2013 file photo, FBI agents search the backyard of a house once occupied by James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke in New York. Burke masterminded a $5.8 million robbery from Lufthansa Airlines in 1978. Vincent Asaro, a mob associate of Burke's, was indicted, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 for participating in the armed robbery at Kennedy Airport. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Reputed mobster pleads not guilty in 1978 heist depicted in ‘Goodfellas’

Associated Press · January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Minn. transportation group pushes for road money

Patrick Condon · January 23, 2014 9:59 pm

While some use suicide rates or unemployment levels to gauge the country's happiness, others measure the number of bicyclists out on the streets. (Examiner File)

Bike lane ‘indignados’ are a sign of unhappy times

R. Emmett Tyrrell · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. Warning that a "major loss of life" could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains to transport large amounts of crude oil, U.S. and Canadian accident investigators urged their governments to take a series of safety measures. The oil train derailed and exploded near Casselton, N.D., creating intense fires. The accident occurred about a mile outside the town, and no one was hurt. Rail lines run through and alongside the town. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

Energy and Environment

National Transportation Safety Board warns of ‘major loss of life’ from rail shipments of crude oil

Zack Colman · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Ray LaHood was U.S. Transportation secretary from 2009 until 2013 and represented Illinois in congress from 1994 until 2008. (AP File)

Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins law firm, says he won’t be a lobbyist

Associated Press · January 22, 2014 5:00 am