IL: Durbin calls for fast-track funds for highway repairs
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dick Durbin is urging increased federal spending on highway repairs as early as next year.
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Archive of Transportation on Monday November 02, 2009
IL: Durbin calls for fast-track funds for highway repairs
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dick Durbin is urging increased federal spending on highway repairs as early as next year. Read More
NY: Taxes for road repairs raided by state
Highway and motor vehicle taxes dedicated to road and bridge repairs continue to be raided to pay the state's operating expenses, leading to a deterioration of New York's infrastructure, according to a report from the Comptroller's Office. Read More
AK: Planners tackle Alaska's worst traffic bottleneck
Road planners say they're looking at as many alternatives as possible as they try to solve the worst traffic bottleneck in Alaska - a section of Anchorage where two highways converge and turn into roads dotted with stoplights. Read More
AL: Old Madison Pike widening may still be a year away
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Next month will be the 10th anniversary of then Gov. Don Siegleman's announcement that the state would widen the road. The project has languished for various reasons since. Read More
AZ: Rest-area cuts spur safety fears
Truck drivers say the consequence of closing rest areas around the state to save money is more dangerous highways. Read More
CT: Officials wonder if upgrading rail line will be worthwhile, produce results
Connecticut is among 34 states trying to get a piece of the $8 billion in high-speed rail funding that President Barack Obama's administration plans to award this winter. Read More
DE: Tyler-McConnell Bridge lane closures begin
Daytime lane closures begin today on Del. 141 at the Tyler-McConnell Bridge, the Delaware Department of Transportation said. Read More
IA: Transit systems face difficulties with funding
Iowa's public transportation systems have huge hurdles ahead, state officials said Saturday. Read More
IL: Appeals for public transit help go nowhere
It isn't a doomsday forecast, but winter promises to be bleaker for commuters after Gov. Pat Quinn and lawmakers failed to come up with any financial relief for mass transit. Read More
IL: Stimulus gave state 16,000 school, highway jobs
According to figures released Friday by federal officials, the state had the seventh-most stimulus-related jobs of a total 640,329 across the country through the end of September. Read More
IN: White House -- 16,000 Indiana jobs, 650,000 nationwide funded by stimulus
A new White House report on the number of jobs linked to the $787 billion federal stimulus program has re-ignited a debate over President Barack Obama's effort to jump-start the economy. Read More
KY: Bridge authority members named
Gov. Steve Beshear and Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson on Friday named members of a new bi-state bridges authority — appointments that won the endorsement of groups with conflicting views of the Ohio River Bridges Project. Read More
MA: New transit merger faces a few snarls
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority runs a sophisticated control room in South Boston, where 60 feet of video monitors display real-time views from 550 traffic cameras across the state. Read More
MD: ICC was always intended to exclude most people
BALTIMORE, Md. -- There wasn't much public in the public hearing held by the Maryland Transportation Authority last week in Beltsville on its proposed tolls on the just-around-the-corner Intercounty Connector. Read More
MI: School bus inspections to resume
When Granholm signed a budget for the Michigan State Police today, she directed the department to find money within its own budget to continue the inspections. Read More
MN: OMG! DPS offers 'Don't Text and Drive' contest
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota teens who want to tell others about the dangers of texting while driving can help spread the message by entering a TV commercial challenge. Read More
MS: $3.3M provided for Greenville port
The Port of Greenville has received $3.3 million in state grants to begin upgrades. Work will begin in 2010. Read More
NJ: Corzine wows Turnpike tolls will not rise
Gov. Jon S. Corzine said Friday that he had no intention of raising tolls or leasing the New Jersey Turnpike to raise money if he is elected to a second term. Read More
NY: GOP petition drive targets license plate fees
County clerks across the state have started online petitions against planned increases in fees on license plates next year. Read More
OH: Auto registration checks scaring immigrants
News that the state will cancel the car registrations of possibly thousands of undocumented immigrants has caused panic and created rumors among those living in central Ohio. Read More
OH: State may put towing companies on the hook
Legislation being crafted at the Statehouse would give sole regulatory authority to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Read More
OK: Emergency updates urged for Oklahomans
During his 13 years with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Lt. George Brown said he has performed and assisted in more than 100 notifications, and it never gets easy. Highway patrol investigators usually find next of kin through the deceased motorists' identification or tag check. If that doesn't work, he said, they try the U.S. Postal Service Read More
OR: Stimulus keeps Oregon highway division busy
The deputy director of the Oregon Department of Transportation's Highway Division leads nearly 3,000 employees — more than most agencies — and manages a two-year budget of $3.6 billion. Read More
OR: State panel clears road projects under new law
The Oregon Transportation Commission has approved the first 14 projects under the 2009 law that will fund an estimated $3 billion in projects over the next decade. Read More
OR: Despite rhetoric in Vancouver mayor's race, decisions on tolls for I-5 lie elsewhere
In Washington, the Legislature and the Washington Transportation Commission hold all authority over bridge tolls. In Oregon, it's the Oregon Transportation Commission. Read More
PA: Pennsylvania revives plan to toll Interstate 80
The state is trying again to charge tolls on Interstate 80 and head off a giant gap in transportation funding next year. Read More
PA: Turnpike documents subpoenaed by state grand jury
A Turnpike Commission spokesman today confirmed the agency received a subpoena for records from a statewide grand jury investigating patronage and contracts at the agency. Read More
PA: PennDOT ramping up efforts on curb cuts
Lawsuits have prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to budget $820 million over the next decade to replace 117,000 handicapped curb ramps along state roads -- a program that attorneys say would be unnecessary had the agency installed the ramps properly the first time. Read More
SC: How the Boeing deal was done
A week before North Charleston landed a new Boeing jet assembly line, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham thought South Carolina had lost the deal. Read More
SC: Bringing Boeing to S.C. -- The art of the deal
Boeing had considered locating its first 787 Dreamliner assembly line on that chunk of property near Charleston International Airport in 2003. Unable to woo the aerospace giant from its home near Seattle at that time, state business leaders immediately looked toward a second chance. Read More
UT: More than 100 arrested in Halloween DUI blitz
State troopers made 124 DUI-related arrests during a Halloween blitz, according to numbers released Sunday by the Utah Highway Patrol. Read More
WI: Wis. highway fatalities down 11 percent so far
With two months left in the year, Wisconsin continues its trend of fewer people being killed in highway crashes. Read More
Spending limits, gambling top fiscal 2009 ballot measures
 The national spotlight may be focused Nov. 3 on elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, but voters elsewhere could take action to profoundly change the way their states get and spend taxpayers’ money.
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