Tag: Transportation

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 6:36 pm

A man sits resting as commuters head to departure gates at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Wednesday July 23, 2014 in New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved $90 million for urgent repairs at the 64-year-old complex used by both commuters from New Jersey and travelers from the rest of the country. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NYC’s aging bus terminal to get patchwork fixes

Verena Dobnik · July 27, 2014 3:48 pm

An oil-tank train with crude oil from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota travels near Staples, Minn. (AP/Mike Cronin)

Energy and Environment

Transportation Department floats rules to keep trains carrying crude oil from exploding

Zack Colman · July 23, 2014 7:14 pm

Senate agrees on $11B highway funding measure

Senate agrees on $11B highway funding measure

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 6:34 pm

VIDEO — Anthony Foxx: U.S. needs long-term transportation funding plan

Steve Doty · July 21, 2014 1:33 pm

The Highway Trust Fund is broken. Slated to run out of money by Aug. 1, the fund has relied on an 18.4-cent per gallon gasoline tax last raised in 1993. (iStock Image)

Energy and Environment

How to shore up the highway fund

Zack Colman · July 18, 2014 2:30 pm

(Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

Roads are in bad shape, but just how bad?

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2014 1:00 pm

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, shake hands in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after a tentative labor agreement was reached at Cuomo's office in New York on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Strike by NY commuter rail workers averted

FRANK ELTMANRACHELLE BLIDNER · July 18, 2014 1:29 am

President Barack Obama speaks in front of the Interstate 495 bridge over the Christina River near Wilmington, Del., Thursday, July 17, 2014, to announce an initiative to increase private sector investment in the nation's infrastructure. The bridge was closed for emergency repairs last month after the discovery of four tilting support columns, and the federal government is helping pay for repairs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Obama pushes transportation money at closed bridge

Darlene Superville · July 17, 2014 11:36 pm

VIDEO: Obama pushes plan for private funding of public roads

Lisa Ruhl · July 17, 2014 8:24 pm

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for July 17

Steve Doty · July 17, 2014 11:48 am

Cuomo: Rail strike would hold commuters ‘hostage’

Cuomo: Rail strike would hold commuters ‘hostage’

David Klepper · July 16, 2014 8:56 pm