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Project Was Awarded $16.9 Million In TIGER Discretionary Grant Funding
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao today took part in a kickoff event for the construction of the New Dixie Highway Project in Louisville, Kentucky. The project was awarded $16.9 million in...
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced that it will issue $100 million in grant funding to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for its Green Line Extension (GLX) light rail project.
The grant represents the first installment of Capital...
WASHINGTON – United States Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao will attend CES 2018, Jan. 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nev, headlining the Smart Cities at CES 2018 conference programming on Jan. 10 at 10:30-11:00 AM PT at Westgate, Level 1, Pavilion 9. Secretary Chao and Gary Shapiro, president and...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation released the following statement regarding the derailment of Amtrak Cascades Train 501 in the state of Washington.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all those impacted by this tragic event. We want to commend...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT)’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today signed the Record of Decision (ROD) for Phase II of the All Aboard Florida (AAF)/Brightline Project and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement review (DEIS) for the Texas Central Railway (...
BTS Issues Freight TSI Technical Note – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released Technical Note, Long-Term Growth in Freight Transportation Services: Methods and Findings, which examines the pattern of freight transportation services beginning in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao today highlighted DOT’s pro-growth deregulatory agenda that will spur innovation, speed up infrastructure project delivery, and create more jobs. The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ (OIRA) Unified ...