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Missouri Kicks Off Campaign Against Texting While Driving

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The Missouri State Highway Patrol recently teamed up with NASCAR's Roush Fenway Racing team and Con-way Freight to kick off a statewide safety campaign against texting while driving, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.The safe driving campaign, which includes public...

Fuel Tax Continues to Provide Greatest Public Benefits

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It is time to fix our crumbling transportation infrastructure by raising the gas tax, The Washington Post said in a recent editorial."By any measure, driving in the United States is cheap," The Post said. "Driving today is substantially cheaper, in...

DOT Plan's Modal Bias Overlooks American Consumers

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Our nation's highway system fueled "unprecedented economic prosperity and individual mobility," according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's draft Strategic Plan for 2010-2015. However, instead of furthering our economic prosperity and mobility through operational improvements on our nation's highways, the...

U.S. DOT's Strategic Plan Ignores the Nation's Transportation Needs

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The U.S. DOT's draft Strategic Plan presents a vast array of poorly justified expansions of the federal role into every nook and cranny of how Americans and their goods should travel--as well as how and where we should live, Bob...

Cap-and-Trade will Eliminate Tens of Thousands of Transportation Jobs, CBO Reports

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Supporters of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill claim that the legislation will "help us create nearly 2 million new jobs and ... help us maintain leadership in the global economy," but the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of climate legislation says...

Climate Benefit From Expensive Kerry-Lieberman Bill 'Astoundingly Small'

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While the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill comes with a huge price tag in the form of gas and diesel tax increases from a cap and trade system, environmentalists might say it is worth the price to avoid dire results from global...

Congress Questions Port's Attempt to Encourage Unionization

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Congressional members applauded the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach last week for greatly reducing diesel emissions at the nation's largest shipping complex. Since launching their clean truck programs in 2008, Long Beach estimates it has already achieved the...

Shorten the Leash on TIGER Grants

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently doled out $1.5 billion in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grants for a wide variety of controversial state projects with a suspiciously heavy focus on non-highway projects. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.),...

LaHood Calls for 'End of Favoring Motorized Transportation'

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a "sea change" last week on his FastLane blog. The Secretary said "people across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring...

Rail Bottlenecks Jeopardize Citizens' Safety

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Cities and suburbs across America are plagued by rail-induced traffic congestion, as railroad advertising continues to seek even more traffic on their tracks.The Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently reported that a rail bottleneck southeast of the city is so bad that...