Metro has taken a significant step toward the construction of Houston’s next four light rail lines. Directors on Thursday authorized signing a five-year contract estimated at $60 million with STV Inc. of New York, the same consortium that shepherded development of the Main Street line, which opened Jan. 1. More…
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Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton, Jr. will deliver a Keynote address to the 2004 Annual Texas Transit Conference & EXPO in El Paso. Conference dates are May 15-18. Commissioner Houghton will pull double duty: presenting the prestigious Friend of Texas Transit Award on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation as well as the Keynote at the Annual Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, May 18, 2004. A Conference Update, including Exhibitors to date, are found in the following .pdf file:
… Twenty-three in Texas.
Counties in 31 states are flunking air-quality standards, drawing a federal warning to clean up industrial plants, put new restrictions on cars and take other action to make their air less polluted.
Nearly 500 counties, mostly in California and the eastern third of the country, were cited Thursday as having too much smog-causing pollution in violation of the federal clean air law. (More from EPA on the following page.)
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Seven million Americans over age 65 who do not drive — including at least 66,000 people in the north Texas Metroplex — and those numbers are expected to nearly double in the next two decades.
A study released Wednesday from the Surface Transportation Policy Project in conjunction with the American Public Transportation Association (”APTA”:http://apta.com/) and the American Association of Retired Persons (”AARP”:http://www.aarp.org/), warns that older Americans without access to public transportation are becoming increasingly isolated. These nondrivers make fewer trips to the doctor and lose contact with friends, relatives and churches.
The report is available by accessing this “page”:http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=232.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Friday gave emphatic support to a $275 billion highway and transit bill, voting for the prospects of new roads and jobs despite an administration warning that the bill was too expensive and would result in a presidential veto.
The 357-65 vote sends the long-delayed six-year spending bill to a House-Senate conference and an election-year showdown with the White House over federal spending, jobs and the deficit.
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One of our favorite information sources on passenger rail (in .pdf format at 332kb). Special Thanks to friends at the Georgia Passenger Rail Authority!
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