Tag: Transportation

In this Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 file photo, motorists fill their tanks at a convenience store in Platt City, Mo., where prices dropped below $2-per-gallon for regular gas. Congressional Republicans are not ruling out raising the gas tax to keep afloat the broke Highway Trust Fund. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Republicans haven’t ruled out raising gas tax

Rebecca Berg · January 4, 2015 5:57 pm

Beltway Confidential

New Year’s isn’t the deadliest holiday for drivers

Jason Russell · December 31, 2014 7:41 pm

An aircraft flying overhead photographed on November 29, 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Yes, flying in the U.S. still safe

Jason Russell · December 30, 2014 11:31 pm

Fewer drivers, reduced gas tax revenues are shifting the burden of transportation policy to the states. (iStock Photo)

On transportation, power is flowing out of Washington

Michael Barone · December 24, 2014 1:00 pm

A Streetcar Named Denial

Ethan Epstein · December 16, 2014 6:33 pm

Va. AG sues maker of highway guardrails

Va. AG sues maker of highway guardrails

Mark Payne · December 15, 2014 3:43 pm

The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to allow Amazon to test using unmanned aerial drones to deliver packages due a dispute with the online merchant over how it should conduct its research, an administration official told a congressional panel Wednesday. (AP Photo/Amazon)

Amazon goes to war with regulators over drone testing

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2014 10:13 pm

Congress to press FAA on drone rules

Congress to press FAA on drone rules

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2014 10:00 am

Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta said the Obama administration will soon announce proposed regulations for the commercial use of unmanned flying drones. (iStock)

National Security

FAA says new rules on flying drone aircraft coming soon

Sean Higgins · November 30, 2014 9:45 pm

Congress exempted the Federal Aviation Administration from major civil service and procurement rules 19 years ago. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images)

IG: FAA has done little with major reforms approved in 1995

Mark Tapscott · November 25, 2014 10:00 am

DOT officials haven't decide when fixes will be made for one-fifth of their 5,600 cybersecurity problems. (iStock Photo)

IG finds big DOT cybersecurity flaws

Mark Tapscott · November 22, 2014 10:00 am

Senate Commerce Committee member Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. displays the parts and function of a defective airbag made by Takata of Japan that has been linked to multiple deaths and injuries in cars driven in the US., Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, during the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Automaker whistleblowers could see huge payout

Kelly Cohen · November 20, 2014 4:56 pm