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The state Department of Transportation has adopted and released a new 20-year long-range plan, called Connections 2030. It provides a vision for highways, local roads, air, water, rail, bicycle, pedestrian and transit through the year 2030. According to Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi, the plans policies and recommendations will direct the DOTs activities in areas such as preserving ...
STAFFORD COUNTY Interstate 95...
Thirty-two years ago, the Virginia transportation department drove dozens of steel pilings 50 feet into the ground near the West Falls Church Metro station. Encased in concrete, the pilings formed foundations that one day could hold up a bridge carrying Metro trains across Interstate 66 to Dulles...
The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission will install security cameras in a number of its buses to enhance passenger safety, PRTC officials said Wednesday.
From the Incans to the Romans, for thousands of years roads have carried the life blood of the greatest civilizations to and fro.
Nine people were killed in a Metro train crash in Washington, D.C., this summer. The growing number of commuter rail collisions is one of the reasons the Obama administration proposed this week that the federal government take over safety regulation of the country's subway and light rail systems. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Deborah Hersman, Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
November 20, 2009) - The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) recently recieved a National Roadway Safety Award for its Safety Bond Program. State Senator Steve Ogden was among the Texas delegation that accepted the award.
A North Texas family in desperate need of a handicap van got their wish Saturday. The family from the Collin County town of Princeton will no longer have to cram their disabled little boy in a minivan, and it's all thanks to a non-profit organization.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says in its 20-year plan released this week that federal economic stimulus money does not solve immediate or long-term funding needs.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities say four people were hurt when one of San Francisco's historic cable cars jarred to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown.Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Judson True says two passengers, the cable car's gripman and conductor were hospitalized on Saturday after the accident. Their injuries are not life-threatening.The cable car on the Powell Street ...
As Pennsylvanians begin their annual Thanksgiving holiday travels, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation launched Operation Safe Holiday today.
