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Chevron's Utah petroleum pipeline fails stress test-local media
ReutersApril 30 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp's pipeline carrying diesel and jet fuel between its Salt Lake City, Utah, refinery and Boise, Idaho failed a stress test ordered by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...Tags: Chevron Corportion
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NHTSA Sees No Decline in Distracted Driving
KickingTiresThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported startling statistics it hopes will encourage people to pay attention while driving. In 2011, licensed motorists in the U.S. numbered 212 million while the number answering calls on a mobile...Tags: Electronics, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Science and Technology, Highway Transportation, Telecommunication Service
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Lawmakers look past cuts to next budget battle
Days after the Obama administration threatened widespread furloughs of government employees, one of Maryland's largest federal agencies, the Social Security Administration, said it might shoulder across-the-board spending cuts without sending any of its...
Tags: Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Internal Revenue Service, Government Debt, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Md. lawmakers say budget cuts could harm BWI
With the BWI Marshall Airport terminal as a backdrop, Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation took turns Friday bashing mandatory federal budget cuts they said could harm not only air travel but local businesses that rely on passenger...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Government Debt, Layoffs and Downsizing, Federal Aviation Administration, John Sarbanes
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U.S. Orders Fung Wah Bus Line To Halt Operations
The United States ordered the Fung Wah bus line, which provides low-cost transportation in the northeast, to cease carrying passengers on Tuesday after state safety inspectors found numerous problems in its buses. The U.S. Department of Transportation'... -
California Pacific Airlines still trying to get off the ground
An airline that was planned to begin flying out of Carlsbad last year is still struggling to complete federal regulations to launch operations. California Pacific Airlines, based out of McClellan-Palomar Airport, is the brainchild of Ted Vallas, a 91-...
Tags: Air Transportation Delays
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Virgin America best U.S. airline, United worst: study
Reuters(Reuters) - Virgin America did the best job of flying customers last year while United Airlines was the worst, though passengers experienced overall better performance, a study showed. The performance of the 14 leading carriers in 2012 was about the same...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Virgin Group, Ltd., United Air Lines, Southwest Airlines Co., Wichita State University
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Study: Virgin America Best U.S. Airline, United Worst
Virgin America did the best job of flying customers last year while United Airlines was the worst, though passengers experienced overall better performance, a study showed. The performance of the 14 leading carriers in 2012 was about the same as the...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Virgin Group, Ltd., United Air Lines, Southwest Airlines Co., Wichita State University
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Hagerstown Regional Airport officials highlight impact of closing tower
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comWithout a staffed air traffic control tower, “there is going to be an incident” involving aircraft at or near Hagerstown Regional Airport, one concerned business owner said Thursday. “I feel very strongly that we are going to have an...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Transportation, Barack Obama, Federal Aviation Administration
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Harbor freeway's toll lanes faster, others slightly slower
Rush-hour traffic in the new 110 Freeway toll lanes is moving faster, but traffic in other lanes has slowed slightly, according to the first report on the project. The Metro and Caltrans data is the first evaluation of the county's initial attempt at...
Tags: California Department of Transportation, Road Transportation, Transportation, Traffic, Travel
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Caltrans workers falsified testing data on bridges, auditor finds
Two Caltrans technicians tasked with doing foundation testing for construction projects claimed over 260 hours they didn’t work, and one of them falsified testing data on 10 projects, according to an investigative report Thursday by state Auditor...
Tags: California Department of Transportation, Employees, Career and Workplace, Jerry Brown, Accounting and Auditing
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Distracted driving
Strange as it may sound, only a few years ago Marylanders were heatedly debating whether to ban drivers from text-messaging on their cell phones while behind the wheel. The dangers of "distracted driving" were an illusion, opponents claimed,...
Tags: Cell Phones, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Judges
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