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• New Orleans: Evacuate, or face Gustav alone
The city spent more than $7 million to provide 700 buses to evacuate the elderly, the sick and anyone without transportation. Arrests after curfew
• Minnesota economy buffeted by crosscurrents
Minnesota is a largely rural state with long driving distances between urban areas and limited public transportation alternatives. The state’s farm economy also is feeling the surge in oil prices on two fronts: the higher cost of running farm ...
• Natgas cars: Clean, green, going nowhere
Natural gas is getting another look as a fuel, particularly for transportation, because of the expected boom in American natural gas production, which is dragging down its price.
• Drunken-driving deaths fall in 32 states
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said she was disappointed by the increase in deaths involving drunken motorcycle riders. A total of 1,621 motorcyclists were killed in alcohol-impaired crashes in 2007, an increase of 7.5 percent.
• Rally attendance down
Sturgis - It’s what most of us thought, fewer people were at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this year. But just how many fewer is anyone's guess. The state Transportation Department believes attendance was about 445,000. Rally attendance last year ...