All posts tagged "Landtransportation"

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In his first visit to Pennsylvania of 2024, former President Donald Trump seized on a special counsel’s decision not to charge President Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents while Trump continues to contend with a pending criminal case. Before a crowd of thousands of supporters at the National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, Trump contended he was the victim of unfair treatment. “Biden is not going to be charged,” Trump said. “If he’s not going to be charged, that’s up to them. But then I should not be charged.” He also took shots at Biden’s mental facult......

SEATTLE — A landslide north of Vancouver has disrupted passenger train service between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Sunday night, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation. The slide, which occurred south of Kelso early Saturday morning, blocked the railroad tracks and triggered a 24-hour moratorium for all passenger trains per BNSF Railway rules, WSDOT spokesperson Janet Matkin said. The moratorium affects several West Coast Amtrak lines, including Coast Starlight trains. Trains previously scheduled to terminate in Seattle will instead terminate in Portland. Buses ......

The use of funny and quirky messages on electronic signs will be against the law on America’s highways. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration, a division of the Department of Transportation, issued a sweeping set of guidelines last month “to improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and all road users.” Part of the new 1,100-page manual regulates electronic traffic signs and other traffic control devices, which will no longer be allowed to post humorous messages that could distract drivers or be misunderstood. Messages with obscure meanings and references to pop culture will also be banned......

Three days after the Biden administration announced $8.2 billion in grants for passenger rail projects across the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to Raleigh on Monday to highlight one of the biggest. The N.C. Department of Transportation will get nearly $1.1 billion to build the first leg of a high-speed rail line that will eventually connect Raleigh with Richmond, Virginia. The grant will allow the state to build new tracks, bridges and stations in Wake County and extend Amtrak’s Piedmont service to Wake Forest. Speaking to a gathering of more than 250 people in Ral......

A federal program is on track to potentially provide high-speed train travel connecting Charlotte to Atlanta, as well as other cities. A $500,000 study has just been approved to examine the feasibility of such a plan. It’s part of $3.5 million in federal grant money that the North Carolina Department of Transportation secured last week to identify and develop seven corridors for potential rail lines across the state, which includes the Charlotte to Atlanta plan. Each corridor will receive up to $500,000 to create a service development plan from the U.S. Department of Transportation to identify......

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to stop using its “two-step” tactic during traffic stops as part of a sweeping court-mandated overhaul of the agency’s practices. U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Vratil issued a four-year injunction against the Highway Patrol after ruling in July that the agency violated the constitutional rights of motorists in how it conducted traffic stops. The length of the order effectively places troopers and their leaders under long-term judicial supervision, allowing Vratil to keep an eye on their procedures and practices. When stopping vehi......