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Make a Shake: Researchers simulate a big quake
The test building has been repeatedly built, destroyed and rebuilt for earthquake testing at the University of Nevada's Reno research lab. (Photo: UNR)
It’s a little bit of earthquake apples and earthquake oranges, but it’s valuable nevertheless.
A two-story building was ... Read More...
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Is Anthony Foxx the new Ray LaHood?
The Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina is the only man on the short list who looks to be going all the way. Now his hometown Charlotte Observer is turning speculation into a ... Read More...
Good news about the Columbia River Crossing
(Photo: WSDOT/Flickr)
For the past five years the Cascade Bicycle Club has been opposed to the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) mega-highway, a Vancouver-Portland area project.
The biggest reason the club says it opposes the CRC is “its opportunity cost: every one ... Read More...
Free me from the DMV with paperless titles
This fall, a handful of states will begin work with paperless titles systems that could make paper titles--and the endless hassles and delays associated with them--a thing of the past.
If you’re not either a teenager or just a few years ... Read More...
The French Connection 2013: A car chase for the ages
A still from the French Connection car chase
Where’s Popeye Doyle when you need him to jump behind the wheel of his police car and chase the No. 7 train through Brooklyn?
Still around apparently.
Doyle’s manic and nail-biting car chase in ... Read More...
Road funding: Your piggy bank or mine?
Motorist fees and gas taxes are sources for transportation funding in two state budgets.
Pennsylvania and Washington State are trying to pay for essential projects and in doing so – along with a number of other states – may be showing ... Read More...
One Stop Shopping: AASHTO’s guide to state transportation funding initiatives
Which state is doing what to fund transportation infrastructure projects?
It can be hard keeping up as almost every states tries to find new money in hard times with increasing pressure from the infrastructure itself, whether it is simply aging or ... Read More...
Secretaries’ Day: A powerful meeting for transportation policy
The University of Virginia's Miller Center (Photo: The University of Virginia Magazine)
Conferences come and conferences go but as conferences go this one could be really good.
Six former U.S. transportation secretaries, who served under every president from Ronald Reagan to ... Read More...
Let’s make construction work zones safer. It can be done.
A whole lot of highway contractors who work on our roads want to see tougher laws, fines and legal penalties for moving violations in work zones and more frequent safety training for workers on these jobs.
This information comes from a ... Read More...
Perrymandering a Rainy Day Fund
Change the boundaries of an electoral district and you get the person you want heading into office. Ah, the power of Gerrymandering. Change the rules for cashing in a Rainy Day Fund and suddenly you have found money for favorite/pet/essential ... Read More...
$105,000 in parking tickets in Chicago. Where else?
This is one of those shake-your-head stories.
All of the people involved in this fiasco basically wandered around in a daze, thinking wasn’t an option. Do something? Who, me? Why don’t you do something? Not my job.
When it comes to transportation ... Read More...
Slow trains going faster
Anderson Cooper upsets people. I like that. It’s a big part of what he’s supposed to do.
This time it’s the high speed rail folk (and it’s not their first time because Cooper has been here before). Their complaint is that ... Read More...
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