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Archive of Transportation on Monday June 29, 2009
IA: Iowa DOT blocks tweets over security concerns
Don't try tweeting if you work for the Iowa Department of Transportation. The state agency is blocking the use of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other online social media applications for its 3,000 employees while they're on the job because of worries about computer security. Read More
MA: Deval Patrick signs off on tax hike bill
Bay State consumers, already hard-pressed by a slumping economy, will be slapped with a 25 percent sales tax hike and nearly $1 billion in total tax increases Aug. 1, Gov. Deval Patrick said yesterday after signing a massive transportation reform bill. Read More
AZ: 6 months after debut, light rail remains busy
For six months, light-rail trains have run their 20-mile track between Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, picking up millions of passengers. Read More
CA: Calif. OKs new steps to cut climate change
California has become the first state to require that all new cars sold after 2012 have windshields that block the sun to cool vehicles, increase fuel efficiency and cut greenhouse gases. Read More
DE: Budget ax aimed at fix-up program
The upcoming state budget would give lawmakers less than half the money they got this year for a controversial program to fix streets, plant trees and pave parking lots in their districts, a legislative committee recommended Sunday. Read More
GA: Perdue's stimulus plan slow to help sagging economy
Gov. Sonny Perdue promised in January that his state stimulus package would create 20,000 construction jobs, but what he didn't say was that most of those won't come on line until well into 2010. Read More
IA: Iowa DOT Blocks Facebook, Twitter
The Iowa Department of Transportation has blocked the use of several online social networking sites from employee work computers because of security concerns. Read More
IL: Highway, transit funds put in limbo
How long can we wait for a new federal transportation act? As long as necessary to craft a good bill, says Brian Imus, director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group. Read More
KS: High court narrows rule for search during traffic stop
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the scope of police searches at traffic stops in the state, saying its ruling was prompted by a similar decision from the nation's highest court. Read More
KS: Poll shows Kansans want road improvements
As unhappy as Kansas suburbanites may be with a lack of alternatives to driving, they still want bigger and better roads, a new state poll reveals. Read More
KS: Analysis -- Stimulus taking shape
Sitting around a conference table, members of the governor's Cabinet pondered the impact of nearly $2 billion in federal stimulus money flowing into Kansas. Funding for schools, highways and the unemployed is aimed at helping maintain education quality, create construction jobs and help residents who were recently laid off. Read More
MA: Gov. Patrick signs transportation reform bill
Gov. Deval Patrick signed the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority out of existence Friday. Read More
MA: Mass turnpike board to withdraw toll hike
A $100 million toll increase on on the Massachusetts Turnpike is just days away, but the Turnpike Board of Directors is likely to rescind the toll hike. Read More
MA: Some still slow to make the move to Fast Lane
Every commuter and Sunday driver has seen the Soviet-style lines at the Turnpike tollbooths. Many get stuck in them. The waits - almost always in the cash lanes -- can last 15 minutes or longer during the summer travel season, while the drivers with the white plastic Fast Lane boxes whiz by. Read More
MS: Budget session yielding progress
State lawmakers, trying to approve a budget before the new fiscal year begins Wednesday, advanced legislation Sunday that would head off increases in Mississippians' car-tag costs, hike taxes on cheaper cigarettes and set budgets for certain state agencies. Read More
MS: Miss. lawmakers engage in last-minute budget blitz
Mississippi lawmakers are playing a frantic game of beat the clock as they try to pass a nearly $6 billion state budget before the new fiscal year begins Wednesday. Read More
MT: Fourth of July travel expected to increase in state
Travel in and around Montana has largely been a last-minute decision this year, and that trend will likely continue into the Fourth of July weekend, said Sarah Lawlor of Travel Montana, the state's tourism office. Read More
NV: Wait times climb at the DMV; Northern Nevada, you're next
Few issues bring out the anger of Nevadans like a long wait at the DMV. For Southern Nevadans that irritation has been compounded by the knowledge that wait times here are as much as three times as long, on average, as in the rest of the state. Read More
TX: Session will hit some where it hurts
Folks who watch their pennies when choosing smokeless tobacco, callers who like prepaid wireless plans and lobbyists and others who've found Capitol-area parking fines a bargain: Texas lawmakers left a bill for you the last time they left town. Read More
TX: Carona files SB 1 for special
Sen. John Carona, the Dallas Republican who chairs the Senate's Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, said this afternoon he has filed legislation for next Wednesday's start of a special legislative session. Read More
VA: Va. Railway Express fares go up today
Virginia Railway Express is raising fares to help offset a projected $1 million budget gap. Read More
VA: Va. legislative panel to discuss car title lending
Virginia legislators are beginning to take a look at the unregulated business of car title lending. Read More
VA: VDOT abandons poison in fight against Hopewell starlings
The Virginia Department of Transportation is abandoning poison in its ongoing battle to rid the Benjamin Harrison Bridge of a large flock of birds. Read More
VT: Vermont's auto sticker changes will save state $60K a year
Vermonters will be seeing a couple of changes in their car registrations starting Wednesday, both designed to shore up the state's flagging coffers. Read More
WA: U.S. ports ask Congress to help fight competition
WASHINGTON – Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast ports face new competition as ports in Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they've relied on. Read More
WI: Sheboygan lands $3M in stimulus funds for Taylor Drive
The state budget awaiting the governor's signature includes $3 million in federal stimulus funds to resurface a section of Taylor Drive on the city's north side, according to Ald. Jim Gischia. Read More
WI: State budget deal reached
Oil companies would not face a new tax and illegal immigrants would not be issued special cards so they could drive legally on Wisconsin roads under a budget deal reached privately by Democratic lawmakers and released Thursday. Read More
WI: Immigrant groups seek driver's card, tuition break in Wisconsin budget
Advocates are making a final push to convince Wisconsin lawmakers to cut tuition rates and create a new driver's card for illegal immigrants. Read More
WV: Historic toll increase coming on turnpike
Another chapter in its storied and, on occasion, controversial history is about to be penned for the West Virginia Turnpike on Wednesday. Read More
New section follows stimulus spending
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