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Former Arizona DOT chief Victor Mendez confirmed to head the Federal Highway Administration (JOC) Federal safety board tells D.C. its Metro system needs upgraded safety monitors, post-crash (WaPo) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gets behind a gas-tax increase to fund transpo … (Roll Call) … but AASHTO, the state DOTs’ lobby group, can’t seem to … Continued

By Elana Schor

5:00 AM EDT on July 14, 2009

Former Arizona DOT chief Victor Mendez confirmed to head the Federal Highway Administration (JOC)
Federal safety board tells D.C. its Metro system needs upgraded safety monitors, post-crash (WaPo)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gets behind a gas-tax increase to fund transpo … (Roll Call)
… but AASHTO, the state DOTs’ lobby group, can’t seem to do the same (Roll Call)
North Carolina gets a $386 million loan from the U.S. DOT for its first toll road (Triangle Biz Journal)
Steve Rattner, the financier turned White House auto-industry czar, steps down (WSJ)

Elana Schor

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