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- Lautenberg Pushes for Rail Safety Funding in U.S. Senate
- Bloomberg News RAIL OPERATORS ACROSS the United States have until 2015 to install equipment that helps trains brake in an emergency after the Senate approved new safety legislation late last week. The bill also would more than double funding for Amtrak, the U.S. passenger railroad, to $13.1 billion. Railways including...
- Research articles 2008-10-06
- Railroads push Congress to back tax credit
- The U.S. Transportation Department may consider supporting a tax credit sought by freight railroads if carriers agree to invest in "long-term equipment" and projects that benefit passenger rail, the head of the agency said. Large U.S. railroads including No. 1 Union Pacific Corp. are pushing Congress to back...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Rail congestion: Freight-train network in U.S. faces 'calamity'
- CHICAGO -- Railway executive Matthew Rose stood before fellow industry leaders, pointing to a map meant to tell the future of the U.S. rail freight network. It was drenched in red -- east to west, north to south. The blotches illustrated areas where, by 2035, traffic jams could...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- Nominations submitted to the Senate
- The following list does not include promotions of members of the Uniformed Services, nominations to the Service Academies, or nominations of Foreign Service officers. Submitted November 15 Goli Ameri, of Oregon, to be an Assistant Secretary of State Educational and Cultural Affairs, vice Dina Habib Powell. Grace...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- FRA wants safer vehicles
- For the Federal Railroad Administration, making the safest ground transport mode even safer has been an axiom, almost a mantra. And as transportation (and/or the transportation crisis) continues to grow within the U.S., FRA is anticipating the growth in the U.S. passenger rail fleet by moving to implement improved safety...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Citizen soldiers need more help, panel told
- The nation's laws and policies aren't changing fast enough to reflect demands on citizen soldiers, top commanders of the National Guard and Reserves told an independent commission at a hearing Wednesday in San Antonio. Vice Adm. John Cotton, chief of the Navy Reserve, said the Guard and Reserves must focus...
- Research articles 2006-07-20
- US transport cops tout machine guns, sniffer dogs after London blasts
- WASHINGTON AFP — Machine gun-toting police and bomb sniffer dogs fanned out on subway networks and transit systems nationwide hiked security as US cities felt a shiver of fear after London's terror blasts. President George W. Bush urged vigilance as Americans headed to work, but top security officials said...
- Research articles 2005-07-07
- Amtrak off track
- The plaintive, mournful wail of a train whistle has been replaced by howls coming from Amtrak officials. They cry that the government- subsidized passenger railroad will go down the tubes if it doesn't get more money from the taxpayers. What got them going this time was a report from the...
- Research articles 2004-11-29
- What a difference the 48th parallel makes!
- COMPARISONS, as a number of notable literary figures have said, are odious. So let's be odious, courtesy of the United States' United Rail Passenger Alliance URPA, which thinks very highly of Canada's VIA Rail passenger operations but rather less so of the United States passenger rail operator, Amtrak. VIA...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- 'Rx Express' takes Florida seniors to Canada.
- By Robyn Shelton, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 12--David Mathis came to the Amtrak station on Monday with two suitcases, six written prescriptions and his doctors' blessings. The 77-year-old Ocoee man boarded the so-called "Rx Express"...
- Research articles 2004-10-12
- Slow cash flow may hurt Lancaster, Pa.-area rail project.
- By Patricia A. Poist, Lancaster New Era, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--John Ward is hoping the federal government can pick up the pace in releasing money his organization is supposed to get to develop a commuter rail line between Mechanicsburg...
- Research articles 2004-08-20
- Ten Worst Government Programs
- 1. Medicare Prescription Drug EntitlementScore: 83Started when: 2003By whom: President Bush and a Republican Congress.Why: Enacted in response to an explosion in prescription drug use and prices, and in the belief it would be political popular among seniors.What it does: Makes seniors dependent on the federal government for their medicines....
- Research articles 2004-03-08
- Watching wisely/ Borders should be monitored for terrorists, not
- In the early days of the Bush administration, the president worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox on cross-border issues. The two pledged to work together to implement provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement as well as the possibility of a guest- worker program and immigration, legal and illegal....
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- Nation's Mayors To Meet In Washington, Jan. 22-24
- News Advisory: Approximately 300 mayors from across the nation will gather in Washington to discuss how to boost the economy, ensure homeland security, and address other major challenges facing cities at the 71st annual Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on January 22-24, 2003. Mayors will hear from...
- Research articles 2003-01-08
- Correction, please!
- Snake-oil Salesman ITEM: Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is rekindling the health-care battle, enthused Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe on June 23rd. The senator "has returned to the overall struggle," said the columnist. "Kennedy's comprehensive approach makes room for cost containment, full funding of life and money-saving research, tough...
- Research articles 2002-07-29
- The Week - President Bush encourages the Palestinians to change leadership - this and other items are discussed
- -- Abby wins! -- In a speech notable for its frankness, President Bush has told the PaPalestinians that they are victims of their own disastrous leadership. A man corrupt in every sense, Yasser Arafat has committed his people to terror and lawlessness, robbing them of freedom, security, and of...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Watchdogs criticize trucking plan: NAFTA supporters claim cross-border trucking will accelerate trade between the U.S. and Mexico, but the GAO fears lax safety and environmental standards
- The Department of Transportation DOT lacks an effective plan and the facilities to ensure that Mexican trucks operating in the United States comply with U.S. safety and environmental standards, according to the General Accounting Office GAO. The GAO also concluded that relatively few Mexican trucking companies are ready to launch...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- Crash victim lived for family/ Train wreck killed devoted
- Stasia "Stella" Riehl arrived at Ellis Island 51 years ago clutching nothing more than an accordion. Riehl, 69, died Saturday when the Amtrak train she was traveling in derailed in Iowa. A Polish immigrant, Riehl survived a year in the German concentration camp at Dachau during...
- Research articles 2001-03-20
- Leadership And Management Skills - rising to the top
- The corporate landscape is changing and with it, history is being made. Since the 1970s, African Americans have been paving inroads across frontiers that were uninviting and often difficult to navigate. However, perseverance paid off and no longer could the accomplishments of many ambitious, black corporate mavericks be ignored. The...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Progress in intermodal passenger transportation: private sector initiatives.
- INTRODUCTION Any casual observer of the passenger transportation system today in the United States is aware that problems abound. Whether one is driving or riding on highways, boarding long-distance rail, local transit, or flying on the nation's airlines, problems with congestion, delays, poor...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
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