(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) Business leaders gathered in Houston this week to look at ways to position the region as the “Gateway to North America.” Harris County’s International Trade and Transportation Conference focused on how goods are transported from the Port of Houston by truck and rail, and what needs to be done…
It’s not just the advocates who hate the new transpo bill. So does Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican Congressman from Illinois. “This is the most partisan transportation bill that I have ever seen,” LaHood told Politico. “And it also is the most anti-safety bill I have ever seen. It hollows out our No….
KALW’s Julie Caine overcomes her fear of speeding cars and messy helmet hair in this audio essay. Listen as Caine gets a lesson in urban cycling. Not a proverbial lesson, but a literal one, while attending a class in urban biking offered around downtown Oakland. The East Bay Bike Coalition teaches free classes in cycling…
The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
Double Happyness – a Philadelphia-based bus company — now can add a restraining order to its growing pile of legal notices from the federal government. Last month the U.S. Department of Transportation ordered the company to immediately cease operations after declaring it an “imminent hazard to safety.” On Thursday, the feds put some teeth into…
On the heels of a blistering Congressional hearing yesterday comes a new Chevy Volt ad designed to convey the message that Detroit is back.
(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…
Leaders in Howard County, Maryland, and the unincorporated town of Columbia are trying to figure out whether something that seems to be working quite well in more urban areas can be part of the plan going forward in their neck of the woods — they’re exploring the potential of bike sharing. The two municipalities have…
Texting while walking, says filmmaker Casey Neistat, “may lack the social stigmas of drunk driving or smoking crystal meth, but it can be just as dangerous.” Luckily, there are ways to text on the street and not become the subject of an afterschool special.
(Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF) The city of Houston has announced a proposed settlement with American Traffic Solutions, the company that operated the city’s contested and then canceled red light camera program. Houston voters rejected the plan in November 2010, and a legal battle erupted with ATS after the city turned off the cameras as the…
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