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Archive of Transportation on Thursday October 29, 2009
SC: Lawmakers offered lure worth $450M
Fifteen minutes before South Carolina announced to the world that it is the new home of Boeing Co.'s second Dreamliner assembly line, the power brokers sat together in Senate leader Glenn McConnell's office and huddled around the phone. (Also see: WA: 'We did all we could' to keep 787 work, Gregoire says, but GOP disagrees and SC: S.C. officials worked years to win the 787 plant prize Read More
CA: Bay Bridge remains closed after steel rods break during wind
Five thousand pounds of metal from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge fell on commuters Tuesday because vibrations, worsened by a windstorm, caused steel rods to break, a spokesman for Caltrans said Wednesday. Read More
AK: Anchorage legislators seek new offices
Anchorage legislators have been seeking new office space for some time, but in the past such moves have concerned Southeast legislators who feared a backdoor attempt at moving the capital. Read More
AZ: Valley freeway projects shelved
Billions of dollars in voter-approved Valley freeway-expansion work will be postponed and scaled back after plummeting tax revenue forced a regional transportation panel to slash spending Wednesday night. Read More
CT: Lawmakers question DOT on willingness to cut costs of city rail yard project
The recession, plus intense scrutiny, has reduced the cost of the New Haven Rail Yard project, officials of the state Department of Transportation told two General Assembly committees Tuesday. Read More
FL: Florida settles suit with student loan firm
MIAMI -- Florida and 11 other states settled with Student Loan Xpress Tuesday, forgiving $112.8 million in loans used to attend the now-closed Silver State Helicopters training school. Read More
FL: NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight today, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House. Read More
HI: Hawaii visitor numbers improve, but arrivals still spending less
A dentists convention, a string of Japanese holidays and deep discounts on hotel rooms helped propel Hawaii to its third consecutive month of growing visitor arrivals in September. Read More
HI: Lingle heading to China to push isle tourism
Gov. Linda Lingle will leave on Friday for a two-week excursion to China where she intends to sell Hawaii as a tourism destination and to bolster opportunities for the state's products to be sold there. Read More
IL: Lawmakers reconsider free rides for seniors
Lawmakers are thinking about scaling back free bus and train rides for all but the poorest seniors to help cash-strapped transit agencies, a move that carries the risk of alienating a large group of voters with little more than three months until the primary election. Read More
MA: Turnpike Authority member announces run for auditor
Mary Z. Connaughton, an outspoken member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, said yesterday that she filed papers to run as a Republican for state auditor in 2010. Read More
MI: Senate proposal would give states grants to ban texting
Washington -- Two influential senators introduced a bill Wednesday to prod states to crack down on distracted driving as aides predicted Congress would approve a new law by year's end. Read More
MI: Michigan Senate rejects auto insurance change
The Republican-led Michigan Senate has killed legislation that would have banned auto insurers from considering where a driver lives when setting rates. Read More
MN: 600 traffic safety advocates convene in Duluth
DULUTH, Minn. -- Minnesota public safety officials say the annual number of traffic deaths in the state has gone down 30 percent since 2003. Read More
MS: Hitch blocks session
A financial hitch has delayed legislative action for a company that plans to build a $300 million factory in the Mississippi Delta, but lawmakers say they still expect the project to come through. Read More
MT: New judge not expected until next week
KALISPELL, Mont. - Flathead County court officials say they do not expect a new judge to be chosen until early next week in the case against state Sen. Greg Barkus, who faces several charges stemming from an August boat crash that injured all five people aboard. Read More
NC: NC governor declares I-40 rock slide an emergency
Gov. Bev Perdue on Wednesday declared the Interstate 40 rock slide an emergency in the hope of getting the federal government to pick up the repair bill. Read More
NV: Nevada's economy: Taxing trouble
Nevada posted its 10th straight month of double-digit declines in taxable sales in August, as a major federal incentive to boost car sales failed to drive consumer purchases into growth territory. Read More
OR: Second chance for Willamette Falls Locks, an Oregon treasure
WEST LINN -- As workers prepared to replace the biggest gate of the Willamette Falls Locks this month, Congress approved more than $900,000 to keep the 136-year-old facility open. Read More
SC: S.C. officials worked years to win the 787 plant prize
While Boeing Co. did not publicly disclose plans for a second 787 assembly line until this year, the effort to lure the investment and jobs to South Carolina can be traced back to June 2003. Read More
SC: Recreating local plants in S.C.
By 2016, Boeing's East Coast complex will grow to more than 6,400 employees due to the company's decision Wednesday to put a second 787 Dreamliner assembly line in Charleston, S.C., rather than in Everett. Read More
SC: C-17 arrives at base
Air Force and Boeing aviation officials said it was just a coincidence the Charleston Air Force Base's 58th C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane arrived the very same day Boeing picked North Charleston as its new commercial jet expansion site. Read More
TX: I-35, privacy issues to top Texas Transportation Commission agenda in Fort Worth Thursday
Texas' highway chiefs meet Thursday for their monthly meeting, but won't be holding court in the storied Greer Building across from the state Capitol. Instead, they'll be looking at another marvel of architecture, the Modern Museum of Fort Worth. Read More
US: Bad trip -- School outings get downgraded
Eleven-year-old Clayton Lundstrom couldn't wait for sixth grade, the year he'd get to spend three days hiking, identifying plants and singing songs around a bonfire in the Cascade Mountains with his classmates. Read More
US: Facing losses, US Airways cutting flights, 1,000 jobs
In another sign of tough times for airlines, US Airways Group Inc. said yesterday that it would cut about 1,000 jobs next year, end Philadelphia flights to five European cities, and trim 43.8 percent of daily departures from Las Vegas. Read More
UT: Statewide DUI blitz slated for night of Halloween
The Utah Highway Patrol will conduct a statewide DUI blitz Halloween night to take drunken drivers off the streets and hopefully make the evening safer for trick-or-treaters. Read More
WA: Machinists disappointed, call union 'a handy scapegoat'
Machinists in Everett expressed disappointment Wednesday at Boeing's decision to locate the second 787 assembly line in South Carolina but said that the union wasn't to blame for the outcome. Read More
WA: Hutchison faults Gregoire, Constantine on 787 decision
King County executive candidate Susan Hutchison lashed out at her opponent, Dow Constantine, and Gov. Chris Gregoire for Boeing's decision to move a 787 assembly line to South Carolina, saying it represented an "abject failure of our government and our elected officials." Read More
WA: 'We did all we could' to keep 787 work, Gregoire says, but GOP disagrees
Republicans quickly blamed Democrats Wednesday for failing to prevent Boeing from deciding to build a second 787 final-assembly plant in South Carolina. Read More
WA: Constantine, Hutchison see different routes to solving Metro deficit
Three years ago, King County Metro Transit boasted the nation's fastest-growing ridership, along with a voter-supported tax increase to expand routes and buy hundreds of hybrid buses. Read More
WA: Leg. 'willing to do all we can' to keep Boeing competitive
Lisa Brown, the majority leader of the state Senate, said in a statement Wednesday that the Legislature had already given billions in tax breaks to the Boeing Co. but indicated that lawmakers would be willing to do even more. Read More
WA: Gregoire -- 'I'm angry'...Boeing 'made the wrong decision'
Reaction from local political leaders. Read More
WA: Boeing blues -- Will state lawmakers push to cut wages?
Just six years after state lawmakers approved $3 billion in tax breaks to convince the company to build its 787 jetliner in Washington, Boeing on Wednesday said it would open a second production line in South Carolina. Read More
WI: Bill would let drunken drivers keep licenses for ID
As lawmakers struggle to find a way to pay for toughening the drunken-driving laws, a legislative panel approved a measure on Wednesday that would let suspected drunken drivers keep their licenses for identification purposes only. Read More |
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