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Georgia needs $18 billion to $20 billion in highway, rail, port and air cargo improvements to fully take advantage of its status as a freight hub, the Georgia Department of Transportation recommended Wednesday. READ ARTICLE

The latest federal statistics that measure the performance of the nation's airlines offered some good news for passengers and some bad. READ ARTICLE

This week, anna.aero has collected 2011 traffic data for the top 20 airports in the USA, which reveals that between them passenger numbers grew by an estimated 2.5% in 2011. READ ARTICLE

Speaker John Boehner is delaying a vote on the $260 billion transportation bill that was scheduled this week. READ ARTICLE

The prime minister is talking about being "held hostage" by U.S. interests. Radio ads blare, "Stand up to this foreign bully." A Twitter account tells of a "secret plan to target Canada: exposed!" READ ARTICLE

If you laid all the lobbyists who support it head to toe on K Street, they’d stretch across Washington. READ ARTICLE

The U.S. population is growing at the slowest rate since the Great Depression after two decades of robust increases. READ ARTICLE

Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year. READ ARTICLE

Lawmakers can expect to hear about the stalled surface transportation reauthorization bill from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during the congressional recess. READ ARTICLE

The River Line of New Jersey Transit opened in 2004. READ ARTICLE

The call came into the London Metropolitan Police bomb squad in the early hours of the morning. READ ARTICLE

For transit-only lanes to operate effectively within a city, they must remain clear for the next transit vehicle. READ ARTICLE

Construction is underway on a $95-million collection of industrial buildings at Douglas Park, a former aerospace manufacturing base next to the Long Beach Airport. READ ARTICLE

The nation's busiest seaport complex had its best January since the recession because of a weak dollar, stronger Asian economies and a steadier U.S. consumer. READ ARTICLE

MBTA fare increases would be limited to 25 percent and other state agencies as well as major nonprofits, universities, and public attractions would be asked to aid the T under a proposal presented today by the MBTA Advisory Board. READ ARTICLE

Four years ago a Congressionally-appointed bipartisan Commission offered recommendations for post-SAFETEA-LU federal transportation policy and funding. READ ARTICLE

Yesterday, Nevada became the first state to approve regulations that permit self-driving cars. READ ARTICLE

Air India got U.S. government support and used it to vanquish the competition. READ ARTICLE

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced that it set an all-time record for cargo volume in 2011, surpassing the previous record set in 2007 before the start of the global economic downturn. READ ARTICLE

A unique industry is flourishing in Brookville, Pa., an old lumber town about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. READ ARTICLE

The aspiring author has much to burden the old artistic mind in the months and weeks right before he becomes famous… as he is certain that he will, once he types the words ‘the end’ on the final page of his novel.
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If you follow world trade, you may remember that there in the middle of the financial crisis, it fell across the glove by either 11% if the WTO is your go-to data agency, or 12% if the World Bank fills that role…. I don’t think it’s earth-shaking that the chambers of Congress didn’t get their votes in on the highway bill before the brief recess of this week. It’s a huge bill, there are many voices to be heard and constituencies to be satisfied…
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The Asian carp is a skittish fish, averaging about two feet long and 10 pounds apiece. READ ARTICLE

Since I discovered U.S. Route 66 as a teenage hitchhiker, I’ve traveled it by Greyhound bus and tractor-trailer, by RV and Corvette and, once, by bicycle. READ ARTICLE

In a major shift in thinking about the state's bullet train, powerful transportation agencies in Northern and Southern California want to quickly obtain up to half the project's bond financing to upgrade local rail corridors that could become part of the proposed high-speed network. READ ARTICLE

This stretch of the Rust Belt might seem like an easy place to find factory workers. READ ARTICLE

The expansion of Motiva Enterprises LLC’s refinery could spur increased demand for supertankers hauling Persian Gulf crude oil westbound, according to a report by New York-based shipbroker Poten & Partners. READ ARTICLE

Some military families living overseas are outraged by a new United Airlines policy that will require pets that can't fly in the cabin to travel as cargo — potentially costing their owners hundreds of dollars more. READ ARTICLE

Oil and Iran Could be the story of the week READ ARTICLE

The comments were submitted February 14 to the House Ways and Means Subcommittees on Select Revenue Measures and Oversight. READ ARTICLE

Daniel Toole is a 26-year-old, Seattle-based architect who has, quite accidentally, found himself immersed in the hidden world of alleys. READ ARTICLE