Topic: U.S. Department Of Transportation

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is Cabinet -level federal agency. On March 3 , 2009 , President Barack Obama visited the department. During his visit, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden spoke about the money in the stimulus package which will ...

Demand for high-speed rail funding swells

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Monday it continues to see high demand for funds to build high-speed passenger rail.The department said it had received 20 applications from 10 states totaling $7.8 billion for developing high-speed rail corridors ...
The federal government provides infrastructure investment grants to state and local governments, as well as private organizations, to help finance improvements to essential services. TIGER II Discretionary Grants Program The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created a number of infrastructure investment grants ...
Well, it's the year of the Tiger, and TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) awards have just been unleashed. US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced these Recovery Act or TIGER awards to states, tribal governments, cities, counties and transit agencies across ...
Officials say financing lined up for 9-story parking garage at key transit stop in Mass.It's a green light for a new $47 million parking garage at the Wonderland MBTA station in Revere.Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and other officials announced on Monday that ...

Shovel Ready

Remember the transportation stimulus package? Given all the talk when the ARRA was passed about the many projects that were ?shovel ready? and primed for construction, this is perhaps a bit disheartening. The administration was not looking only at the stimulus effects ...
Now that the CARS program is completely, totally over, the Department of Transportation has announced a final tally: The most popular new car sold under Cash for Clunkers was the Toyota Corolla, followed by the Honda Civic and Toyota Camry. Top trade-ins ...
With just a weekend left, dealers say Cash for Clunkers sales may be hard to makeAuto dealers are bracing for a possible rush of last-minute shoppers before the Cash for Clunkers program ends Monday, but some buyers may find they won't be ...
`Cash for clunkers' won't do much to reduce greenhouse gas pollution"Cash for clunkers" could have the same effect on global warming pollution as shutting down the entire country every automobile, every factory, every power plant for an hour per year. "As a ...
With recent Federal Economic Stimulus money coming under intense scrutiny, transparency in spending has never been more important. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has provided over 10 billion dollars to the Department of Transportation to be distributed among the states' budgets.The ...
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