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You really have to find something strange to beat the best airport security catch of 2011 and of course I mean the guy at Miami International who tried to go through security with seven snakes in his pants. READ ARTICLE

Here's the current workflow in the Port of Houston: Freight comes in. It’s transported by truck to nearby warehouses. And then it’s put on other trucks and shipped across the country. READ ARTICLE

Congressional Committees will wrestle with figuring out components of a transportation bill this month. READ ARTICLE

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday that a Congressional Budget Office report that the highway trust fund would be empty by fiscal year 2014 shows President Obama has been right to call for increased funding for transportation projects. READ ARTICLE

A New York (STONY1) law approved last month may speed infrastructure projects such as a new $5.2 billion Tappan Zee Bridge, a priority of Governor Andrew Cuomo, by giving control of design and construction to one consortium. READ ARTICLE

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that $500 million is available for a fourth round of TIGER grants to help fund state and local government infrastructure projects. READ ARTICLE

Audrey Zibelman spent two years in the Peace Corps in the late 1970s, working in a village in Chad which had no electricity. READ ARTICLE

Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow. READ ARTICLE

Opponents of the planned downtown streetcar system said Tuesday that county officials broke a promise with voters when they agreed to use advanced transportation district funds to help fund the project. READ ARTICLE

The House of Representatives yesterday unveiled its version of a new highway program that would spend $260 billion over five years. READ ARTICLE

House Republicans unveiled a five-year, $260 billion transportation plan Tuesday that would drop further development of high-speed rail and give governors more say in how to spend federal money. READ ARTICLE

House Republicans are proposing to spend about $260 billion over the next 4 1/2 years on transportation programs, as well as substantially increase the size of trucks permitted on highways, according to a draft bill being introduced this week. READ ARTICLE

Earlier this month the Daily News reported the results of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority study to determine which areas of New York City subway cars get the most crowded. READ ARTICLE

Auto makers got off to a fast start in January as new-vehicle sales surged, with several manufacturers reporting big gains over the same month a year ago. READ ARTICLE

Gov. Jerry Brown said in an interview airing in Los Angeles today that California's high-speed rail project will cost far less than the state's current estimate of nearly $100 billion and that environmental fees paid by carbon producers will be a source of funding. READ ARTICLE

Transportation reporters: Stock up on hemorrhoid cream. READ ARTICLE

Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Ranking Member Richard Shelby released details about the bipartisan transit legislation to be marked up Thursday at 10:00 A.M. READ ARTICLE

Despite a five-year hiring surge, the Federal Aviation Administration is at risk of not having enough senior air traffic controllers for its busiest and most critical facilities, where they are needed to run operations and train less-experienced controllers, according to the agency's independent inspector general. READ ARTICLE

Overland Park trucking giant YRC Worldwide Inc. is bringing “freight” back to its long-haul trucking business. READ ARTICLE

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico, was 12.7 percent higher in November 2011 than in November 2010, totaling $76.7 billion (Table 1), according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. READ ARTICLE

The state Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that it will expedite structural repairs on the former Route 219 bridge over Cattaraugus Creek, restoring traffic by early April. READ ARTICLE

The Port of New Orleans has had a second straight record-setting year. READ ARTICLE

Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will introduce a bill Wednesday requiring large U.S. companies to disclose how many of their jobs are based on U.S. soil and how many are based abroad, an attempt to shed light on the number of American jobs being outsourced. READ ARTICLE

Railroads including Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) would get five more years to install crash-avoidance technology -- a project estimated to cost about $12 billion -- under a proposal by the U.S. House transportation committee. READ ARTICLE

Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation? READ ARTICLE

All eyes are on the House side of Capitol Hill today in anticipation of the Republicans’ grand unveiling of their American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act at 3:00 p.m. READ ARTICLE

The social scientists have the ingredients down to a precise formula…what exactly it is that goes into a bad good movie?...but they are on much less certain ground when it comes to the polar opposite, the good bad movie.
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Your state’s DOT (Dept. of Transportation) is likely using new technologies in the preconstruction phase of a project. READ ARTICLE

The legislative session on Capitol Hill is well and truly underway, with particular momentum being put behind the reauthorization of the federal transportation bill…. if you dig into the GDP report of a few days back you might notice, as we did, just how much of that 2.8% growth depended on inventory rebuilds, nearly 2% of that 2.8%.... on the face of it there’s nothing wrong with the record of trucking right now though, which presents a more positive note.
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The American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act is a House-led initiative to reauthorize and reform surface transportation programs for five years, improve our nation’s infrastructure, remove barriers to domestic energy production, and create jobs for Americans. READ ARTICLE

With the recent revelation of a strategy for America's national supply chain, President Obama highlighted the vulnerabilities of the supply chain model. READ ARTICLE

House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a giant new surface transportation bill loaded with goodies for the GOP base. READ ARTICLE

Rail activity was still a bit stronger than expected in the first three weeks in January, a trend that is positive for US economic activity despite some of the challenges we see overseas. READ ARTICLE

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) executives Tuesday forecast slower global economic growth in 2012 compared with 2011 but offered a relatively upbeat U.S. outlook, saying conditions clearly have improved since early fall. READ ARTICLE