Tag: Transportation

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. The plane was supposed to land at the nearby Branson Airport on Sunday evening, but instead landed at Clark Airport, also known as Taney County Airport, which has a much shorter runway than at Branson, about 7 miles away. The plane's pilots have told investigators they were confused by the small airport's runway lights, believing it to be a larger airport in nearby Branson, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File)

NTSB: Pilots confused by wrong airport’s lights

Joan Lowy · January 18, 2014 12:01 am

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, investigators work the scene where a tour bus collided with a pickup truck on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., killing eight people. Federal regulators ordered the tour bus operator, National City, Calif.-based Scapadas Magicas LLC, to immediately stop operating because its buses weren't properly maintained or inspected and its drivers weren't properly vetted for qualifications. Intercity bus and truck companies with a continuing history of safety problems will be easier to shut down under new regulations the Federal Motor Carrier Administration said Friday that it plans to issue. The regulations give the agency authority to put out of business operators who have been cited for repeated problems, even if their most recent inspection alone doesn't quite meet the threshold for closure, the agency said. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza, File)

Shutting down unsafe bus companies to get easier

Joan Lowy · January 17, 2014 9:16 pm

Construction on WMATA's Silver Line rail project. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Almost a billion dollars meant for the Silver Line is being mismanaged, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · January 17, 2014 5:00 am

US senator: No evidence NJ traffic study was legit

Washington Examiner · January 16, 2014 7:03 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. The crash prompted new questions about the safety of oil transportation. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said the Department of Transportation needs to speed up its timeline for finalizing new rules on the construction of rail tanker cars. His comments came after an item published in the federal register indicated that new rules for tankers might not be finalized until sometime after January 2015. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

Energy and Environment

Hoeven says DOT timetable on rail tankers too long

Henry Jackson · January 15, 2014 9:45 pm

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Transportation Department in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Americans spend a total of 600,000 years stuck in traffic every year. The nation has about 100,000 bridges old enough for Medicare. And a recent global ranking put the United States' infrastructure in 25th place, just behind Barbados. But Foxx says he sees signs the nation may finally be ready to tackle its "infrastructure deficit." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Transportation sec’y upbeat about infrastructure

Joan Lowy · January 15, 2014 7:15 pm

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says he sees signs the nation may finally be ready to tackle its "infrastructure deficit." (AP/Susan Walsh)

Transportation secretary upbeat about infrastructure

Joan Lowy · January 15, 2014 5:00 am

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (AP/Alan Diaz)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants spending boost for roads and ports

Associated Press · January 13, 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. The 911 dispatch recordings from the fiery derailment show initial confusion about the cargo on board. The recordings show that a member of the train crew first told emergency dispatchers in Fargo that it was hauling ethanol. The substance actually was highly flammable crude oil from western North Dakota. Eighteen cars on the 106-car oil train derailed and several exploded and burned. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

Energy and Environment

Senators call for action on oil train derailments

Matthew Daly · January 9, 2014 11:27 pm

Crude oil tanker cars continue to burn at the site of an oil train derailment on Dec. 31 in Casselton, N.D. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)

Energy and Environment

Senators demand probe of rail transportation for crude oil following accidents

Zack Colman · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Chris Christie fires aide, apologizes for traffic jams

Associated Press · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

Traffic moves across the George Washington Bridge, in Fort Lee, N.J. A top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of the bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election. "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in an Aug. 13 email to David Wildstein, a top political appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey and New York City. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Chris Christie to speak Thursday about traffic scandal

Associated Press · January 9, 2014 5:00 am