News from August 2019
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Federal Transit Administration Provided Guidance on Protecting Civil Rights and Addressing Environmental Impacts on Transit Riders and Communities. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has issued new guidance aimed at ensuring that the civil rights and environmental justice concerns of minority ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: When President Obama invited my colleagues and me to join his administration, he offered us front-row seats to watch history being made and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to help make a little history ourselves.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: May 2013 U.S. Airline System Passengers Up 1.7% from May 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 49-13 WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today announced he is making $1 million in federal emergency funds immediately available to Washington State to help repair the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River that collapsed last night. “We are doing everything possible ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FHWA 46-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces $474 Million TIFIA Loan for Goethals Bridge Replacement Project WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan $474 million to build the new replacement ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued an Emergency Order (EO 29) to Metro-North Commuter Railroad (MNCW) to take specific, immediate steps to ensure its train crews do not exceed speed limitations. The EO requires Metro-North to modify ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: As a part of the Navy Yard community, everyone at the Department of Transportation is saddened by the shooting incident this morning and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and first responders. Secretary Foxx has been briefed on the incident and is receiving regular updates.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: June 2013 U.S. Airline System Passengers Up 0.7% from June 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative recognizes unique challenges facing America’s military on the home front
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: GULF PORT, Miss. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced he is making $1 million in emergency relief funds immediately available to the Mississippi Department of Transportation to help repair roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Isaac.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA 24-13 FMCSA’s “Operation Quick Strike” Shuts Down New York-based Passenger Carrier WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Niagara Falls, N.Y.-based passenger carrier Coach USA Tour, Inc., USDOT No. 2121253, to immediately ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Safety investigators for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) have ordered Phoenix-based Autobuses Rayon, Inc., USDOT No. 2011920, to immediately cease all passenger transportation operations after finding that the company was endangering ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FHWA 18-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces $8.6 Million for Tribal Road Safety WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the availability of more than $8.6 million in Tribal Transportation Program Safety Funds (TTPSF) from the Federal Highway Administration ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Announces More NTSB Recommendations Completed in 2010 Than in Last Five Years
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 67-13 BTS Issues Transportation Statistics Annual Report. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), today released the Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) 201 2. The 17th edition of this congressionally mandated ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA 9-13 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today declared Ming An, Inc., an interstate passenger carrier based in New York City, to be an imminent hazard to public safety and ordered the company to immediately shut down. “We are ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The nation’s largest airlines reported four flights in September with tarmac delays of more than three hours, down from six flights in September 2009, with only a slight increase in the rate of canceled flights, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced an agreement to provide $942.2 million from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to extend San Francisco’s Third Street light rail system through the city’s busy Chinatown neighborhood, bringing light rail back to the heavily transit-dependent Third Street corridor for the first time in 50 years.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today unveiled two new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that estimate that seat belts saved more than 72,000 lives during the five years between 2005 and 2009, while child restraint systems and minimum drinking age laws saved hundreds more during 2009.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the allocation of nearly $390 million in FY 2013 Disaster Relief Appropriations Act funds to reimburse the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. (PATH). The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) received a smaller reimbursement for expenses incurred while preparing for and recovering from Hurricane Sandy.
