U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administration Administrator Peter Rogoff are in Arvada today to announce a major funding agreement for the RTD FasTracks lines to Denver International Airport and to Arvada and Wheat Ridge.
The grant is expected to be in the range of $1 billion, More…
Even with appeals from the federal level to fund a high-speed passenger rail in Iowa, state Republican leaders remained skeptical of using state funds to contribute to the railroad.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said earlier this week that $268 million were being earmarked to continually develop high-speed More…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood continues to taunt Rick Scott and other state governors who rejected federal high speed rail money recently, writing in The Hill that his phone has been “ringing off the hook” with calls from states expecting to reap economic benefits. More…
The Obama administration announced first-of-their-kind national standards today to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and increase the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks and buses.
The rules start with model year 2014 heavy-duty trucks and buses and require up to a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 vehicles. More…
Republicans have spent the better part of the last year and a half railing against a government stimulus package they often blame for crowding out more jobs than it saved. But the Center for Public Integrity has published an extensive report pointing out that some of the bill’s loudest detractors More…
This morning, President Obama held a meeting at the White House to press, again, for infrastructure investment. The time is right for massive infrastructure spending, the president said, because of the high rates of unemployment in construction and overwhelming need for the country to update its roads, railways, highways and More…
In the wake of a stern press conference delivered Wednesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the lobbying firm Seward Square Group has announced that it will scuttle its nascent efforts to push back against the “distracted driving” laws that have been sweeping state legislatures. Seward Square had been floating More…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Commission is seeking $16.375 million in civil fines against Toyota after the automaker was forced to recall 2.3 million vehicles over an accelerator glitch, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Monday.
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson just announced a new set of automobile guidelines on a conference call with reporters — a program that aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles by 30 percent and increase fuel efficiency by 40 percent over the coming years. More…
Following last week’s National Bike Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a “sea change” in American transportation policy.
Proclaiming the “end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized,” LaHood sent the following recommendations to state departments of transportation as well as local governments and groups:
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