News from August 2019
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: April 2013 U.S. Airline System Passengers Down 0.9% from April 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Also Meets with California Manufacturers, Suppliers
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 9-13 U.S. Department of Transportation Updates Environmental Review Process to Cut Red Tape and Move Critical Transit Projects Ahead More Quickly and Efficiently Changes will help expedite emergency relief funds for Hurricane Sandy recovery WASHINGTON, D.C. — In keeping with President Obama’s emphasis ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Double Happyness Bus Company Prohibiting the Illegal Sale of Bus Tickets to Consumers.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued an industry-wide Safety Advisory to help ensure railroads adhere to federal regulations regarding maximum authorized train speed limits. The advisory contains four recommendations to ensure railroads comply with speed restrictions through appropriate operating policies, procedures and effective implementation.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 124-12 WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced it is leading an Interstate Petroleum Transport Team to ensure the fastest and most efficient movement of fuel to the region devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The team will serve ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BTS Releases State Transportation Statistics 2010.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Carriers Report Expanded Tarmac Delay Data Under New DOT Consumer Rule
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FHWA 42-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces Additional $30 Million in 'Quick Release' Emergency Relief Funds for Colorado Funds Follow $5 Million Announced Last Week for Flood Repairs WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Air Canada $50,000 for violating the Department’s rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Minnesota’s Northern Lights High Speed Rail Project Receives $5 million from USDOT.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Airlines reported 18 tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and one tarmac delay of more than four hours on international flights in July, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: New Rule Strengthens Protections for Americans with Disabilities at Rail Stations
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Dan and Wendy Lerch of Rochester, Washington Speak About the Loss of Their 19-year-old Daughter Heather
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Trucks transported 59% of U.S.-NAFTA trade in February 2013
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined federal, state and local leaders today to break ground on the Port of Miami Intermodal and Rail Reconnection Project. The $49 million project received $22 million in 2010 from the Department’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant program.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Project on Short List for Competitive Federal Credit Program
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 28-13 WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a third round of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) storm-related reimbursements through the FY 2013 Disaster Relief Appropriations Act. The majority of the $1.4 billion announced today goes to the four transit agencies ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Tupelo, Miss. - A total of eight individuals are behind bars today following their arrest by federal, state and local law enforcement officers on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in North East Mississippi. The FBI together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tupelo Police Department announced that the arrests were made on Tuesday and Wednesday following an extensive multi-year, multi-agency investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Rodney Anderson, 35, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
