The House Ways and Means Committee voted to to remove funding for transit from the highway trust fund by a 20 to 17 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republicans voting against it. In his opening statement, House Ways and Means Committee Chair David Camp (R-MI) said: “The Congressional Budget Office…
“Bouncy and peppy” is the way Houston electric car dealer Rick Ehrlich describes the small, three-wheeled pickup that sits outside his Houston electric car business. “It’s a funny little truck,” adds Ehrlich as we take it for a spin around the parking lot. It’s a no-frills Zap pickup that weighs about 1800 pounds. It’s…
It’s hard to know for sure how former House Speaker New Gingrich might handle transportation as President. Of his Republican rivals who’ve been governor you can easily paint portraits of the metro-friendly moderate or the big-thinking privatizer. But Gingrich has never overseen a department of transportation, never appointed a transportation commissioner, never signed off on…
House Republicans unveiled the outlines of a transportation authorization bill Thursday, relying on controversial methods of paying for highways that are already arousing the ire of Democrats.
With final details on tough new fuel efficiency standards coming out next week, the route to increased milage isn’t all electric. Eventually, EVs might turn fuel pumps into museum pieces, but the death of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated.
(Orlando- WMFE) Central Florida Congressman John Mica wants to pass a four-year aviation re-authorization bill by January. But to come to an agreement, he doesn’t want another FAA shutdown. “What’s different is we’ve been there and done it,” the Chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee told a crowd gathered at the 18th World…
TN’s Andrea Bernstein will talk Port Authority tolls hikes on today’s Brian Lehrer Show. Atlanta’s list of transpo projects — which must be finalized for voters — may not meet its deadline. Oil prices are down 20% this year. And want to see rain falling inside a NYC subway station? Video after the jump.
More than $50 million has been spent this year by companies lobbying Congress for a long-term FAA bill. The first ever CAFE standards for trucks will be announced today. A new app disables texting when a user is in a moving vehicle. Maryland has its first solar electric vehicle charging station. And: the bicycle as a tool of women’s liberation in Zimbabwe.
The FAA shutdown could continue into September. DC’s intercity buses will soon depart from Union Station. Metered parking may finally come to Moscow. 48 San Francisco city bus drivers don’t have licenses. And the mayor of Vilnius gets medieval on a car blocking a bike lane.
Speaking today in Washington — half an hour after he urged politicians to reach a compromise on the debt ceiling — President Barack Obama unveiled an agreement that would double fuel economy standards to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The president said this “represents the single most important step we’ve ever taken as a nation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”
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