Regional Transportation Referendum: How Will You Vote?
Patch.com
By Patch Staff In a tad more than 70 days, metro Atlanta residents will be voting on a referendum that will fund $8.5 billion in transportation improvements through a regional one percent sales tax on July 31. If you had to cast your ballot today, ...

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Transportation deficit can't be ignored
Baltimore Sun
Maryland's transportation trust fund has been severely depleted in recent years, with multiple raids on the fund to help offset operating budget deficits. As a result, we don't have adequate funding to handle even our basic, necessary transportation ...



GE Transportation looks to hot sector for growth
GoErie.com
By JIM MARTIN, Erie Times-News GE Transportation's purchase last week of two mining-equipment companies is likely to mean more at first to the company's engineering team than to workers on the shop floor. In the end, though, some business insiders are ...



Transportation boss 'on rampage' about texting
Cincinnati.com
US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says text messaging and other distractions can seriously threaten driver safety. He recently spoke with The Enquirer about his support of texting while driving bans in Ohio and encourages teens to put their ...

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Commissioners set transportation priorities
Carroll County Times
The Carroll County Board of Commissioner recently approved its annual transportation priorities list it sends to the Maryland Department of Transportation. If the state approves the list of projects, it is included in the state's Fiscal Year 2013 to ...

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Younger Shuster may chair transportation committee
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Bill Shuster will follow in his father's footsteps again if he is named chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. By Tracie Mauriello / Post-Gazette Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Bud Shuster was criticized for pork-barrel ...

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New York Daily News

National Transportation Safety Board documents show bus driver in deadly Bronx ...
New York Daily News
In the 24 hours before the crash, Williams was on the phone for all but six hours, according to the National Transportation Safety Board documents. Williams insisted to investigators that when he gets the chance, he sleeps like a log.
Driver in NY bus crash may have been fatiguedFox News

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Lehighvalleylive.com

Lehigh Valley transportation needs to grow, funds don't
Lehighvalleylive.com
While transportation infrastructure costs keep rising, the revenue to fund them isn't, according to state and local transportation officials. State Rep. Rick Geist, R-Blair, of the House Transportation Committee, said federal transportation funding for ...



N.Va transportation groups might merge
Washington Examiner
The four stakeholders that govern transportation in Northern Virginia are considering consolidating their efforts after an escalating push from lawmakers to ax what they deem repetitive commissions. Advocates for the four bodies -- Northern Virginia ...



Bay Area Agencies Approve Preferred Land Use Scenario and Transportation ...
Antioch Herald
At a packed joint meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), officials voted last night to approve a draft long-range guide to the Bay Area's transportation, jobs and housing.
Land-use plan calls for new growth near transitSan Francisco Chronicle
State senator agrees to talk reform with regional agenciesContra Costa Times

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