Transportation Projects

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
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Source: www.chron.com --- 31 days ago
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela hope to create a regional airline and train network. The Argentine ambassador to Venezuela, Alicia Castro, says presidents from the three countries discussed the project as part of a pledge for greater integration. ...

Source: www.businesswire.com --- 30 days ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caltrans has named 14 Transportation Projects for its “Excellence in Transportation” ...

Source: www.fox6.com --- 7 days ago
Chula Vista may see improved traffic flow. ...

Source: www.doverpost.com --- 34 days ago
    A briefing on several Delaware Department of Transportation and city traffic Projects reported little to no progress at the July 29 meeting of Dover City Council’s Safety Advisory and Transportation Committee.     Gary Laing, community relations officer for DelDOT, said no decision about the West Dover Connector have been made and no time frame has been set for when an alternative will be chosen. Until all of the environmental concerns are dealt with, DelDOT can’t move forward.     “We are in a waiting pattern on some of the things and for other things we are preceding with the environmental impact study,” he said.     The South Governors Avenue project is now back on track, Laing also reported. The actual removal of the bridge had to be delayed because a water main was attached underneath the bridge, which had to be tied into a new water main.     Some of the residents and businesses along Governors Avenue are meeting on a monthly basis as the project moves along in order to share concerns and help alleviate problems, he added. The meetings are the second Tuesday of each month, and the next meeting will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, at private dinning room no. 3 at Bayhealth-Kent General Hospital.     The committee had asked to be briefed about the possibility of a traffic signal at Greenway Lane and Kenton Road. Laing said as far as DelDOT is concerned a light at the intersection would be too close to Route 8 and Kenton Road an ...

Source: wokv.com --- 21 days ago
The First Coast Metropolitan Planning Organization board meets to talk about big Transportation Projects.  They're looking at the "list of priority Projects". ...

Source: www.weatherforddemocrat.com --- 15 days ago
The Weatherford City Council met in special session Tuesday afternoon to resume discussion on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009. In particular, council members considered the Transportation Projects included in the general capital Projects fund. ...

Source: www.rollcall.com --- 10 days ago
Political leaders and financial experts emphasized job creation and the environment during a roundtable discussion Monday in Denver on Transportation issues, but they noted that new Projects face financial hurdles. ...

Source: maps.grida.no --- 32 days ago
For many years, coastal navigation has connected republics in the former Soviet Union. It used the only outlet from the Caspian, the Volga-Don canal, which connects the Black Sea and the Russian canal system to the Baltic. It is still used to transport raw materials, timber, coal, grain, fertilisers, etc. ...

Source: b-ru.com --- 9 days ago
The Russian company Gazprom plans to invest the record sum of RUR 1 trillion in new Projects on gas extraction and Transportation. That is the way how the monopoly responds to the Andris Piebalgs's accusations, the EU Energy Commissioner, of the insufficient financing of this activity area. This news came out when Gazprom's capitalization was demonstrating the severe fall and resulted in the 1,4-1,6% price rise of the monopoly stocks ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 1 day ago
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted former Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert and contractor Leonard Lawson after a yearlong FBI investigation into alleged bid-rigging on highway construction Projects. ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, selected by Sen. John McCain as his running mate, has largely burnished her reformer image by repudiating wasteful spending. But as a small-town mayor and a governor Palin did not hesitate to embrace the federal earmark process, according to a Washington Post report by Paul Kane that shows Palin helped secure almost $27 million in Projects for her tiny hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Among the spending Projects Palin helped obtain through the earmark process: $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a Transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs and $15 million for a rail project, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense. Palin, who was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, directed the town (which then had a population under 7,000) to hire the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh (The New York Times notes ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 3 days ago
News continues to break regarding vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that could, in the long term, pose serious problems to one of the main thrusts of the McCain campaign: the message of conservative reform. The presentation of Palin as an anti-earmark, fiscally conscious pol is challenged by a review of recent political records. As mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she hired the firm of Hoffman Silver Gilman & Blasco to help secure spending Projects for her town. The expenditure apparently paid off. From 2000 through 2002, Wasilla received more than $5.5 million in federal cash for Transportation and social service Projects. According to the group Citizens Against Government Waste, the city received $1 million for a bus facility in 2000. In 2001, the Wasilla Health Center was granted a half million dollars for a community mental health center. That same year the city's emergency shelter also was granted $500,000 for a transitional living program for homeless youth. A year later , the Wasilla regional dispatch center received $1 million in pork, the city was granted $1.5 million for water and sewer improvements, and received an additional $600,000 for a bus facility. The use of the earmark system that -- as a vice presidential candidate -- Palin now criticizes continued into her tenure as governor. As the Los Angeles Times reported , the state of Alaska requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million for next year's federal budget. And ac ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 3 days ago
The last months of 2008 will look a lot like the first two when lawmakers return to Trenton. Transportation will take center stage again after the Legislature's summer break, with Gov. Corzine expected to announce soon a revamped plan to pay for Projects such as bridge repairs, road widening, and a new commuter rail tunnel to New York. ...

Source: weblogs.sun-sentinel.com --- 1 day ago
Elected officials today gave the Florida Department of Transportation a taste of what it will be facing when it holds public hearings about privatizing Alligator Alley. Organized by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the meeting with about 30 municipal, county and state representatives at Weston City Hall sparked more questions than answers about FDOT’s plan to contract out management of the 78-mile stretch of road connecting Broward and Collier counties. FDOT wants to contract out the Alley for 50 to 75 years, to raise money for other Projects. “Where is the money going,” State Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston, asked FDOT’s Kevin Thibault. Rich also wanted to know why FDOT isn’t trying to raise the cash by selling bonds, instead of privatization. Other officials -- who came from towns including Pembroke Pines, Hallandale Beach, Southwest Ranches, Davie and Dania Beach – had more questions: -- How many jobs may be lost? -- Why the contracting companies are all foreign? -- When this privatization might be completed? -- Whether the money would stay solely in Broward and Collier counties? -- How oversight might be conducted? -- If the result would be more restaurants and shopping along the Alley. Macollvie Jean-François ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 1 day ago
A federal grand jury indicted former Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert and contractor Leonard Lawson on Wednesday after a yearlong FBI investigation into alleged bid-rigging for highway construction Projects. Brian Russell Billings, an aide to Lawson, was also indicted. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Taylor told reporters that additional indictments are possible from the federal grand jury meeting in Lexington. Gov. Steve Beshear lauded the work of the FBI and the federal grand jury on Wednesday. "For too long, the important work of the Transportation Cabinet and of its thousands of conscientious employees has been tainted by misguided leadership and a culture of cronyism and corruption," he said. "Eliminating this culture, a culture we inherited, has been one of our chief goals and biggest challenges." ...

Source: www.omaha.com --- 1 hour ago
After years of sagging revenues that have the state struggling just to maintain existing roadways, Omaha chamber officials say it's time for Nebraska to consider issuing bonds as a way to fast-track highway improvements. The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's chief executive, David Brown, has been pitching a bonding proposal among government officials and business leaders statewide that he says would help Nebraska tackle the growing backlog of state and local Transportation Projects. The plan is modeled after a bond-issuing "infrastructure bank" in South Carolina that helped that state complete 27 years' worth of roadwork in seven. ...

Source: ccgi.ajg41.plus.com --- 1 day ago
Information about the Iraq Transportation & Communications Technology Summit to be held in Dubai on 9-10 October 2008. One key area of precedence is that of the country’s rail networks, with a large number of Projects being run through the State Company for Railways, including a new project for connecting Iraq with Iran, the modernisation of [...] ...

Source: www.bradenton.com --- 3 days ago
Florida has become a cash-strapped state, keeping crucial Transportation Projects in limbo. ...

Source: www.sunherald.com --- 1 day ago
Two days in Seattle won't solve the nation's addiction to foreign oil but might be enough to give national leaders the ideas needed for an eventual cure. That's what Seattle-based Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute has in mind for its conference on September 4-5 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash., "Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation." Cascadia Center is encouraging the development of demonstration Projects to show how technology and policy can merge to help the country move beyond oil in Transportation. ...