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The Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact plans and pursues high-speed rail projects.
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The administration's safety investigators are also continuing their examination of the carrier's operations, including examining the safety records of its vehicles, drivers and other company safety performance requirements prescribed by federal regulations, and may consider additional actions against the company if warranted.
Read More →The former chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who represented northeastern Minnesota for 36 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, died on Saturday at age 79. He helped pass key federal legislation, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Read More →METRO Magazine’s Managing Editor Alex Roman spoke to Butler about Lextran’s day-to-day challenges, its alternative-fuels program, and how the lack of federal funding could impact the agency and the community it serves.
Read More →The revised program now totals $251 million in projected spending. Metra will receive an $11.3 million increase in federal funds due to the recently passed Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.
Read More →The agency disclosed a policy change that will prevent engineers suffering from sleep apnea to operate a train unless they are being treated, while federal regulators prepare a safety bulletin that will urge all railroads to screen for sleep apnea.
Read More →The contract allows for all transportation authorities, statewide, to purchase Vicinity buses with federal funding.
Read More →Designed to be a one-stop shop that includes partnerships, state and federal grant programs, and other incentives.
Read More →Provides a 40% discount to riders ages 20 to 64 and whose gross household incomes are at or below 185% of the federal poverty level.
Read More →More than a dozen proposed commuter rail projects are awaiting federal funding as agencies identify corridors that could help to relieve traffic congestion and reduce pollution with a relatively small capital investment.
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