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Northeast Corridor gets $16 billion amid Amtrak fight - Roll Call

About half will go to address two major rail bottlenecks that President Joe Biden visited at the beginning of the year.

Roll Call

Biden administration awards $653 million in grants for 41 projects to upgrade ports

The Transportation Department is awarding $653 million in grants to upgrade and improve 41 water-based ports across the United States

The Independent UK

Senate passes three fiscal 2024 spending bills in 'minibus' - Roll Call

The Senate passed three fiscal 2024 spending bills, wrapping Agriculture, Transportation-HUD and Military Construction VA into one package.

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The Biden administration is encouraging the conversion of empty office space to affordable housing

The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions

The Independent UK

Senate rejects Braun amendment to strip 'minibus' earmarks - Roll Call

The Senate rejected an amendment that would ban earmarks from three spending bills that are part of a fiscal 2024 spending package.

Roll Call

Pete Buttigieg shuts down lawmaker’s attack over his private jet use

‘I appreciate the chance to discuss this because I can’t help but get the sense that people want to make sound as if I don’t travel most of the time on commercial aircraft,’ the Transportation Secretary said

The Independent UK

What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out

Small-scale, tech-based solutions to transportation problems have emerged as a great equalizer in the battle for infrastructure dollars between big cities and rural communities

The Independent UK

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What to expect on the road and in the sky while traveling this Labor Day weekend

Get to the airport early. TSA expects to screen about 14 million passengers from Friday to Wednesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. fines American Airlines for dozens of long tarmac delays

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday it is the largest such fine against an airline since rules covering long ground delays took effect about a decade ago.

WEKU

Virginia, Maryland senators dig in against more National flights - Roll Call

Senators from Virginia and Maryland wrote Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to oppose more flights to Reagan National airport.

Roll Call

Israel Breaks Ground On Mass Bus Rapid Transit System

Approximately 77,000 people per day and 56 million annually are expected to use the bus rapid transit system.

Zenger

Illinois Announces $40.99 Billion Infrastructure Program In Historic Rebuild Initiative

Governor JB Pritzker unveils comprehensive multi-year plan to repair and enhance state's transportation systems.

Zenger

Big shoes filled as Senate appropriators spread earmarks wealth - Roll Call

The retirement of several titans of congressional appropriating hasn't slowed down the Senate's appetite for earmarks.

Roll Call

Senator John Fetterman gives emotional speech about disability rights after recovering from stroke

First term Pennsylvanian is just the latest senator to have a disability and commemorates the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Republicans hoover up earmarks in House spending bills - Roll Call

House Republicans dominate the list of how much members earmarked parts of fiscal 2024 spending bills for projects in their districts.

WEKU

Driving across KY? You’ll likely run into summertime road construction.

At any one time, Kentucky Transportation Secretary Jim Gray said there are at least some 15 hundred road projects in the commonwealth’s highway plan.Motorists traveling across the Commonwealth this summer are likely to encounter some type of road project.

WEKU

After Hill funding fight, Buttigieg calls culture wars, drag show focus 'maddening'

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed growing political rhetoric and focus on culture war issues, such as LGBTQ concerns.

Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — House Republicans struck three Democratic projects that would provide services to the LGBTQ community during Tuesday’s fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD Appropriations markup, enraging Democrats on the committee.

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House Republicans are seeking to cut three Democratic projects that would provide services to the LGBTQ community during Tuesday’s fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD Appropriations markup, enraging Democrats on the committee.

The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg takes down Ron DeSantis over ‘strange’ anti-LGBT campaign video with ‘oiled-up bodybuilders’

‘I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders,’ said the transportation secretary

Zenger

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Criticizes DeSantis’ Homophobic Video

Buttigieg questions DeSantis' priorities amid controversial video release

WEKU

Federal Funding to Help Transportation Infrastructure In Lexington, Jackson

Nearly thirty million dollars from the federal Department of Transportation is coming to central Kentucky.

Tribune News Service

Three top US transportation agencies still don’t have permanent leaders

WASHINGTON — Three of the major U.S. transportation safety agencies are without permanent leaders as the nation contends with toxic railway spills, near-collisions on runways and surging traffic deaths.

The Independent UK

The US government is awarding $1.7 billion to buy electric and low-emission buses

The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses

The Independent UK

Buttigieg warns airlines to finish retrofitting planes to avoid interference from 5G signals

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning airlines to be ready when wireless companies power up their 5G service next month

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