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Spotlight on Safety
Cars with high scores in crash tests are hot commodities. Here’s how to size up the best model in your price range. By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle crashes in...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Science and Technology, Music, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Disasters and Accidents
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Ford brings fantasy baseball to cars
Ford Brings Fantasy Baseball to Cars: Have we gone too far? I have a heart-wrenching internal struggle when it comes to in-car connectivity. On the one hand, I love having navigation, my iPod and phone contacts all easily accessed when I’m driving....Tags: Apple iPod, Telecommunication Service, Ford
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Oak Park to seek millions in grant money
Sidewalks, streets and other public transportation projects could get a boost in Oak Park if the village receives a federal grant trustees agreed to seek this week that could be worth millions. The board of trustees Monday supported village staff's...Tags: Transportation, Dwayne Johnson, Illinois Department of Transportation, Travel, Chicago Transit Authority
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Lawsuit aims to protect migrating swallows from deadly netting draped over bridges used as nesting sites
A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing transportation agencies of violating migratory bird laws by installing protective netting across two bridges in the Petaluma, Calif., area that has injured and killed...
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Bus strikes, kills woman at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Sun SentinelA woman’s airport visit to meet her husband, who was arriving from a flight, turned deadly when she tripped in a roadway and a charter bus ran over her. It forced the normally hectic four-lane arrivals section of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood...Tags: Vehicles, Air Transportation Delays, Traffic, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Transportation Accidents
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Party bus was operating illegally at time of fatal fall
The Kansas City StarA rolling bachelorette party had just gotten underway two weeks ago when the bus hit a bump rounding a curve, double doors flew open and passenger Jamie Frecks tumbled to her death beneath Interstate 35 traffic. Frecks and her 16 friends might never...Tags: Insurance, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, Government, National Transportation Safety Board
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R.J. Corman Railroad files lawsuit against Lexington Center Corp.
The Lexington Herald-LeaderThe concept seemed perfect: Have a dinner train depart from downtown Lexington, take passengers on a little excursion to Frankfort or Midway, feed them prime rib or scallops along the way, then shuttle them back. But those plans announced in 2010...Tags: Transportation, Judges, Trials, Laws, Travel
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Stanford bets on new program to encourage walking, biking
Palo Alto Daily News, Calif.Stanford University is betting that the allure of online gambling will get more of its staff and faculty to walk or bike to work and even begin holding some meetings on campus pathways. According to the Stanford News Service, participants in the new...Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Electronics, Education, News Media
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Police: Obey THE rules of the road -- or else
The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.Drivers beware. Local and state police said they will keep their eyes peeled for people not wearing seat belts during the unofficial start of the early summer season. And while an officer can't stop a vehicle just because he notices someone isn't...Tags: Memorial Day, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Lawmakers retreat from high-profile energy legislation
After a 2012 focused on major long-term energy issues, the Legislature retreated a bit from high profile energy legislation this year. Instead, attention was more narrowly focused on altering existing laws regarding the construction of nuclear power...Tags: Water Supply, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Energy Resources, Government, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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EDITORIAL: New DUI proposal ignites anger, debate
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, TupeloA proposed nationwide lowering of the legal alcohol driving limit from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent raised the ire from the usual sectors this week when the idea was publicized by the National Transportation Safety Board. The liquor and beverage...Tags: Transportation, U.S. Congress, POLITICO LLC, Transportation Industry, Travel
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Airport officials look to future funding with Capital City, Lancaster airport towers set to remain open through Sept. 30
The Patriot-NewsWith funding once again flowing to Capital City and Lancaster airports' contract towers through Sept. 30, airport officials already are looking to funding for the next fiscal year. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Friday the Department...Tags: Career and Workplace, Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Air Transportation Industry
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