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• 40,000 urged to flee Washington state floods
But they hoped to reopen one of the east-west routes sometime Thursday "to get people moving and freight moving," said Transportation Department spokeswoman Alice Fiman. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings for about two dozen rivers in ...
• Inauguration tests troubled transportation grid
Jan. 4: Jeffrey Goldberg, Katty Kay, Hisham Melhem, Andrea Mitchell and David Sanger discuss the task at hand for President-elect Barack Obama with NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press.” WASHINGTON - On a typical weekday, close to 2 million ...
• Raise gasoline tax by 10 cents, Congress urged
That has the federal commission that oversees financing for transportation talking about increasing the federal fuel tax. A 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by the commission to finance highway construction and ...
• FAA reaches settlement with whistle-blower
In September, the special counsel's office sent letters to Transportation Secretary Mary Peters saying FAA didn't adequately respond to complaints from Nesbitt and other air traffic controllers about the potential for collisions involving planes ...
• Bridges, streets being closed for inauguration
To help relieve traffic congestion in the Washington, Virginia transportation officials announced that on Inauguration Day all but official and authorized vehicles will be barred from Interstate 66 and Interstate 395 inside the Interstate 495 Beltway ...