Breaking now from the Senate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that two of the biggest and most controversial transportation items on Congress’s docket will be up on the Senate floor next week. Reid said the Senate will vote Monday on the final House-Senate agreement authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration. A deal of FAA…
A Princeton professor emeritus and author of a book on the Port Authority says Governor Chris Christie’s hiring recommendations at the Port Authority far outpace his predecessor’s patronage hires. Jameson Doig, author of “Empire on the Hudson,” is speaking up after the Bergen Record published the names of some 50 employees, from executives to a…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) Sen. Susan Collins, the top Republican on the homeland security committee, plans to introduce a bill in the coming days that would require a new health study of the X-ray body scanners used to screen airline passengers nationwide. The Transportation Security Administration began using the machines for routine screening in 2009 and…
(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) Work is about to start on the first phase of a billion-dollar redevelopment project at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Houston Airport System is partnering with United Continental Holdings to build a new 225,000 square-foot concourse to handle United’s regional planes. The project includes 13,000 square-feet of restaurant…
The GOP-controlled House is set to vote Tuesday on a month-long extension to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorization, setting up what leaders hope is a final resolution to an ugly standoff over the agency. The House is set to vote on a bill extending FAA’s authorization through February 17, several congressional aides confirmed. The…
Sure, every website needs a mobile version nowadays. But that’s especially true if one of your target audiences is pilots and frequent air travelers. Mobile traffic to the FAA’s website just about tripled over the past two years, to about 4.4 million visitors a year. The new website, www.faa.gov/mobile has quick access to the most popular…
Today is the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 200,000 people, left 1.5 million homeless and destroyed much of the poor nation’s existing infrastructure. Here’s a visual tour of Port-au-Prince’s vehicles and public spaces, most are typical of what you’d see on a ride through town, festive “tap taps,” overloaded motorcycles, (including video!) and the return of public space to Port-au-Prince.
California Governor Jerry Brown released his 2012-2013 budget yesterday — six days earlier than planned — after the document was accidentally posted on the state’s Department of Finance website. And yes: it still funds high-speed rail. The proposal calls for $15.9 million in administrative support for the High-Speed Rail Authority, regardless of what happens with…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) It has become routine for airline passengers across the country: Instead of walking through a metal detector, they now step into a body scanner, hold their arms over their heads and wait until a machine peers through their clothing to make sure they’re not hiding explosives.
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) It was the end of a four-hour congressional hearing, and Florida Rep. John Mica was fuming at Transportation Security Administration officials. The TSA had begun deploying hundreds of body scanners [1] to prevent suicide bombers from smuggling explosives onto planes. But Mica, the Republican chairman of the House Transportation Committee, had asked…
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