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DOT headquarters could bear Jim Oberstar’s name
The U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters could bear a new name if on congressman’s efforts prove fruitful. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) has introduced legislation that would name the building after Jim Oberstar, the former Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman who died May 3, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reports. This is not the first time Lipinski […]
May 15, 2014
Roadbuilding
Former House Transportation Chairman Jim Oberstar dies at 79
Former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), a transportation advocate and expert, died in his sleep Friday night, Politico reports. Oberstar, Minnesota’s longest-serving congressman, chaired the House Transportation Committee for four years during his 18 terms in Congress, which spanned from 1975 to 2011, according to a report from The Hill. The Politico report notes that Oberstar […]
May 6, 2014
Roadbuilding
Mark this urgent! Until we lose interest.
Where’s the urgency? After the I-35W bridge fell into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis in August 2007, virtually everyone was jumping up and down about making sure our bridges were safe and no expense should be spared in getting the job done. But it wasn’t done; and isn’t being done. I remember talking to Minnesotan […]
August 2, 2012
Roadbuilding
One II One
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood talks about distracted driving, reauthorization, infrastructure and many more current transportation issues.
May 9, 2011
Roadbuilding
LaHood: Letting states opt out of highway program ‘not best way forward’
Regardless mof whether the funding formula used to distribute federal highway money to states is unfair, I’m still not convinced that letting states opt out of participating in the federal highway program is a better solution…or one that even makes sense. (Disclaimer here: This is my own opinion, not that of Better Roads or any of the […]
January 11, 2010
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