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'On The Road' from the rearview mirror
By Nate Owen With the 2011 calendar year drawing to a close, let's take a look back at some highlights of On The Road. There certainly were plenty of noteworthy stories this year. And to think, we're not even a full year old yet. That will come in...Tags: Passenger Cars, Entertainment, Hybrid Vehicles, Jeep, Dodge
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A sober approach to drunk driving
In its new report on how to reduce drunken driving deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board states its goal in the title: "Reaching Zero." The agency thinks it is irreproachable to try to ensure that no one ever dies in an alcohol-related...
Tags: Drunk Driving, Crime, Law and Justice, Transportation Industry, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Commute Should Be Back To Normal This Morning As Wreck Site Is Cleared
The Hartford CourantMetro-North and Amtrak said their trains will run normal weekday schedules on Wednesday morning, for the first time since a Metro-North train derailed near the Fairfield border on Friday and crashed into a train on the adjacent track. Regular service...Tags: Grand Central Terminal, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Transportation Industry, Amtrak
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Metro-North To Resume Full Service Wednesday, Partial Service Tuesday
The Hartford Courant— Traffic was heavy again Tuesday morning as commuters endured one more day without rail service from Bridgeport into New York. At least one backup plan — commuters boarding buses to get to a train — was working, albeit slowly. There...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Stratford, Dannel P. Malloy , Grand Central Terminal
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Metro-North Train Crash Highlights Infrastructure Need
On Friday evening at rush hour, two Metro-North railroad trains, one heading east out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the other heading west out of New Haven toward the Big Apple, approached each other on parallel tracks near Bridgeport. In...Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Grand Central Terminal, Railway Transportation, Westport
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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding -official
ReutersBy Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20 (Reuters) - Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Petroleum Industry, Royal Dutch Shell Plc
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5 dead, 6 injured in Illinois passenger van crash
St. Louis Post-DispatchVANDALIA, Ill. A crash that killed five men and injured six near here Monday was another in a series of one-vehicle rollovers that have prompted repeated warnings about 15-passenger vans for years. Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen said the vehicles...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Religious Events
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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding: official
ReutersANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company official told a U.S. Coast...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Politics, Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reducing the number needed for 'one too many'
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, May 20: When bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunk driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce...Tags: Bill Clinton, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Ronald Reagan, Transportation Industry
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David Zwick: Lowering alcohol limit makes sense
The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended all 50 states reduce the legal blood alcohol limit for driving from the existing .08 to .05. Their reasoning is the level is too high and leaves some drivers still impaired even though they are...Tags: Mardi Gras, Criminals, Transportation Industry
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Blowing the limit: Move to lower blood-alcohol content threshold has pros, cons
Bristol Herald Courier, Va.A federal safety commission wants states to get tougher on alcohol-related crashes and fatalities by lowering a blood-alcohol content threshold that has changed only twice in 35 years. One local lawmaker says changing the current .08 level to .05...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Virginia General Assembly, Criminals
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Commuter plane makes emergency landing on belly in Newark
A commuter plane with 31 passengers aboard was forced to make an emergency belly landing in Newark, N.J., early Saturday morning when the aircraft’s landing gear failed to fully deploy. After circling Newark Liberty International Airport several...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Industry, U.S. Airways
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