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Roadbuilding

Senate Transportation Committee discusses rail safety, NTSB calls for shunting use after track worker’s death

Following the May 28 death of a track worker who was struck by a Metro-North train in Connecticut, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has scheduled a hearing with the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for tomorrow at 10 a.m., where the committee will discuss ways to improve passenger and freight rail safety. The hearing […]

June 18, 2013

Business

Washington’s I-5 bridge collapse highlights need for infrastructure funding

Thursday night, a truck with an oversized load struck a portion of the I-5 bridge near Seattle, Washington, sending a section of the bridge and three drivers tumbling into the Skagit River below, according to our sister site Better Roads. Thankfully, no one was killed in the collapse, but rescue teams are searching the river […]

May 24, 2013

Roadbuilding

Daylight savings means dangerous drivers

Here comes daylight saving time. And with it, says the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),  a sudden wave of tired (read dangerous) drivers. “In one night, this will generate a 300 million-hour national sleep debt and in the few days it takes our bodies to adjust, our nation will accumulate over a billion hours of […]

March 7, 2013

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

LaHood backs water highways, a higher gas tax fund, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, fuel taxes and tunnel inspections are among the issues featured in industry news.

September 1, 2010

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

LaHood backs water highways, a higher gas tax fund, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, fuel taxes and tunnel inspections are among the issues featured in industry news.

September 1, 2010