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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: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Stratford, Railway Accidents, Transportation Industry, Grand Central Terminal
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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: Petroleum Industry, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Politics, Transportation Industry
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
MERRILLVILLE-SHOOTING Officer shoots man outside medical facility MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana police officer has shot a man while issuing a citation for an illegally parked semitrailer. The Times of Munster reports the...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Transportation Industry, Lawyers, Science and Technology, Tim Scott
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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: Petroleum Industry, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Politics, 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, Transportation Industry, Criminals
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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: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Highway Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, Grand Central Terminal
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Tighter Ind. drunken driving law seems unlikely
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some key Indiana legislators say it's unlikely that the state will any time soon go along with a federal safety board's recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in half. National Transportation...Tags: Transportation Industry
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Fake prom crash brings home lesson of drinking and driving
Beneath a cloudless blue sky, a simulated fatal car crash was depicted in horrifying detail at Lake Zurich High School. The deadly post-prom tragedy included a lifeless teenage girl wearing a blood-splattered dress splayed over the hood of a...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, American Academy of Pediatrics, Human Mishaps, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Here is the latest Indiana news from The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say autistic children lived in the Indianapolis apartment where a fire has killed two children. A woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition from the blaze this morning in the community of Cumberland on the...Tags: Transportation Industry, Autism, U.S. Geological Survey, Punishment
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Officials warn of commuter chaos from Connecticut derailment
ReutersBy Richard Weizel BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of Connecticut commuters should brace for travel chaos on Monday as Metro-North workers repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line caused by the collision of two trains,...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Connecticut Department of Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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NTSB: Trains were moving 70 mph before Connecticut collision
About 30,000 commuters in Connecticut and New York braced for a sluggish trek to work on Monday -- and for the rest of the week -- as officials continued to investigate why two trains slammed into each other in Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday evening. An...
Tags: Connecticut Department of Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Industry, Railway Accidents, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Damaged trains being removed from wreck site
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North said. Aaron Donovan, spokesman for the Metropolitan...
Tags: Connecticut Department of Transportation, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transportation Industry, Disasters and Accidents
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