(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….
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…
(New York, NY — Brian Zumhagen, WNYC) Nancy Shevell has stepped down from the MTA board, where she had served since 2001. Shevell, who gained prominence when she married former Beatle Paul McCartney last October, is also an executive with her family’s trucking company, and a Republican party fundraiser. “In my 30-year professional career, this…
Oakland has the fifth busiest port in the country. According to the Port of Oakland, they support between 50,000 and 73,000 jobs in Northern California, making it one of the Bay Area’s biggest economic engines. The Port of Oakland says that economic development is its primary driver, but the truck drivers who make a living…
One of the expenses truckers face is paying to upgrade their rigs to meet new environmental emissions regulations for diesel engines. California has the strictest gasoline emissions regulations in the country. The “smog check” is a consuming ritual known to every Californian. Until very recently, diesel engines on freight trucks – big rigs that haul…
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…
UPDATED 7 PM PST: Occupy protesters marched on ports up and down the West Coast Monday in a coordinated action designed to shut down operations. As a result of protests in Oakland, CA, 100-150 longshoremen were sent home in the morning, according to ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees. The ILWU, the union representing longshoremen, publicly stated…
(Washington, DC - Jonathan Wilson, WAMU) Millions of Americans are hitting the highways for the Thanksgiving holiday, and on the East Coast, many motorists hoping to get anywhere hop on I-95. Overlooking some of the busiest traffic in the region — if not the nation — is a landmark, one whose creators hope may give drivers a…
(San Francisco, CA — KALW) The first real freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area was the 880. Completed in 1957, it connects the Port of Oakland with San Jose. Today it’s a major trucking route, and the most direct way to get to the Oakland Airport, or to an Oakland Raiders game. But those…
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