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Bridge Collapses In Washington State

Posted 05.24.2013 | Crime
Read More: Mark Francis, Bad-News, Video, Washington State Patrol, Fha, Bad News, Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge, Asce, Federal Highway Administration, Skagit River Bridge, American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation, Crime News

The Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed around 7 p.m. on Thursday, dumping cars and people into the water, KIRO-TV...

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Is Your Stoplight Watching You?

Diane Dimond | Posted 04.16.2013 | Crime
Read More: Shortened Yellow Lights Mean More Red-Light Tickets, Diane Dimond, Albuquerque Voters Turn Down Traffic Cameras, American Traffice Solutions, ?€œIs Your StopLight Watching You??, Yellow Light Timings, Public Interest Research Group, Redflex Traffic Systems, Traffic Cameras Generate Millions, Traffic Cameras, Diane Dimond?S Weekly Crime and Justice Column, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Federal Highway Administration, Crime News
Diane Dimond

Do red-light cams really mean safer streets or are they just another way for the government to pick your pocket? Beware, more cameras could be headed your way!

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New Orleans Considers Removing Its Claiborne Overpass

Susan Buchanan | Posted 03.10.2013 | Green
Read More: Mass Transit, Kittelson & Associates, Treme, Bicycling, Commuting, Expressways, Rail Lines, Federal Highway Administration, Barack Obama, City Planning, Dillard University, U.S. Dept. Of Housing & Urban Development, U.S. Dept. Of Transportation, Congress for the New Urbanism, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Smart Mobility, Mardi Gras Indians, Port of New Orleans, Sustainability, Waggonner & Ball, Green Space, Hurricane Evacuation, African Americans, Green News
Susan Buchanan

(This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Dec. 17, 2012 edition.) No matter where you live in New Orleans, sooner or later you'll ...

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Talking Leadership and Innovation With Victor Mendez of the Federal Highway Administration

Tom Fox | Posted 12.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Jobs, Leadership, Highways, Transportation, Public Transportation, Federal Highway Fund, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Victor Mendez, Federal Highway Administration, Politics News
Tom Fox

Victor Mendez is administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation that supports state and local governments in the design, construction and maintenance of the nation's highway system.

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7 Big Ticket Items (Including NASA's Annual Budget) ID Thieves Could Fund With Your Stolen Tax Refunds

Adam Levin | Posted 10.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nasa, Identity Theft Bill, Homeland Security Disaster Preparedness, Rep. Lamar Smith, Identity Theft Irs, Stop Act, Fda, Federal Highway Administration, Nuclear-Stockpile, IRS Refunds, Federal Highway Fund, Stop Identity Theft Act, Identity Thieves, Stolen Tax Refunds, Food and Drug Administration, Taxes, Tax Fraud, Politics News
Adam Levin

Treasury estimates that the IRS could issue $21 billion to identity thieves over the next five years. For those those of you who are more visual, that's $21,000,000,000. Still need help? Consider the following.

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Arlington To Rip Up, Rename Old Jeff Davis Highway

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2011 | DC
Read More: Virginia, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Video, Civil War, Old Jefferson Davis Highway, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Federal Highway Administration, DC News

WASHINGTON -- It's the end of the road for Old Jefferson Davis Highway. Once upon a time, the United Daughters of the Confederacy had envisioned a tra...

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Regulators Probing Gear Shift Trouble With GM Cars

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 01.14.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Automakers, Gear Shift, General Motors, Saturn Cars, Gm, Regulation, Regulators, Federal Regulators, Federal Highway Safety Agency, Federal Highway Administration, American Auto Industry, Detroit News

DETROIT — Federal safety regulators are investigating problems with the automatic shift levers on several General Motors cars because drivers ma...

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States With The Most Deficient Bridges

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.29.2011 | Business
Read More: U.S. Infrastructure, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, President Barack Obama, National League of Cities, Jobs, American Jobs Act, Federal Highway Administration, Center for American Progress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Business News

If the president's jobs act were to pass, the subsequent infrastructure investment might become a bridge to work for many of the country's unemployed....

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Colorado Loses $115 Million Out Of Transportation Budget Due To Congressional Technicality

Denver Business Journal | Cathy Proctor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Colorado Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, Denver News

Colorado highway officials woke up Thursday with $114.7 million less in federal dollars to spend. Across the nation, state highway officials had $8...

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The Traffic of Pay-to-Play Politics

Monica Youn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: State Budgets, Money, National Infrastructure, Budget, Secretary of Transportation, Clintons, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Budget, Transportation, Infrastructure, Kennedys, Illinois Senate, Bush Administration, John Fritchey, Rod Blagojevich, Transportation Department, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Federal Highway Fund, Illinois, Blagojevich Corruption, Ray Lahood Obama, Transportration Secretary Ray LaHood, Ray Lahood, Ray Lahood Department of Transportation, Politics News
Monica Youn

The Bush Administration's DOT succeeded in knocking a sizeable hole in Illinois' ban on pay-to-play deals that the state Senate had attempted to pass in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal.

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