U.S. DOT
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LaHood Defends High-Speed Rail Program At House Hearing
It's Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's birthday, and he's spending it testifying before the House Transportation Committee. The hearing is on "Mistakes & Lessons Learned" from the high-speed rail program, but -- no surprise here -- LaHood and House Republicans have differing ideas about what "mistakes" have been made.
December 6, 2011
Is Transpo Funding Fundamentally a PR Problem? Five Ex-DOT Chiefs Discuss
How can you convince Americans that transportation is important enough to invest in?
December 2, 2011
Mapped: How Federal Funding Fails to Match Demand for Transit in the U.S.
UPDATE: Corrects the post to say that the map reflects all ongoing projects, not just those in the final engineering and construction stages.
November 29, 2011
TIGER III Requests Exceed Available Funding 27 to 1
In its third incarnation, USDOT's TIGER program continues to be overwhelmingly popular.
November 15, 2011
Deputy Secretary Roy Kienitz Calls It Quits At USDOT
First Ray LaHood tells us he's not sticking around as Transportation Secretary much longer. Now his number two, Roy Kienitz, has announced he's gonna bounce too -- and he's not even going to wait around as long as LaHood. Kienitz will be out by next month.
November 14, 2011
Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules
Federal safety officials missed their own deadline Friday for making new rules about dangerous trucks.
November 1, 2011
Why Create an Infrastructure Bank When We Could Just Expand TIFIA?
There’s been a lot of adulation heaped upon the TIFIA loan program lately. Both houses of Congress are ready to increase funding for the program nine times over, from $100 million to $1 billion a year – despite warnings from outside groups that there may not be enough eligible projects to use up all that money.
October 28, 2011
Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and NY State DOT Won’t Say.
Call it the mystery of the missing transit. One of New York state's biggest transit projects, in the works for nearly a decade, was canceled overnight and no one will explain why, or even claim responsibility for the decision.
October 24, 2011
Mica Won’t Say Where Transpo Funding Will Come From; LaHood Defends TE
House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) said this morning that getting permission from Republican leadership to find more revenues to fund the transportation bill was a “major breakthrough” but still won’t say where the money will come from.
October 14, 2011
LaHood: Rail-Trails Are the Best Health Care Program
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood became a darling of the bicycling advocacy community last year when he jumped up on a table at the National Bike Summit and affirmed his support for biking, later declaring "the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."
October 12, 2011