April 7, 2017 – As ETW predicted a month ago, President Trump announced he will nominate Derek Kan to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy. Also this week, the nominees for the number 2 jobs at the Department of Transportation and the Department of Homeland Security each took a step forward, but the transportation nominee may face a rockier road.
April 5, 2017 – William T. Coleman, Jr., who served as the fourth U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 1975-1977, died on March 31 at his home in Virginia, at age 96.
The City of Angels was alight with excitement – and not a small amount of confusion – today as commuters poured into its newly-opened Hyperloop system that stretches 100 miles in every direction from the city’s center.
It’s an old Hollywood cliché, washed-up movie star hasn’t found decent work in years, goes into debt, and is forced to work any job they can get. While this is an age-old story that we have all heard it before, the City of Stars is beginning to realize that the problem extends far beyond its human stars.
The top Democrat on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Peter DeFazio (D-OR) was arrested on charges of aggressive panhandling at a Washington, D.C. gas station yesterday.
After a distinguished career of service, Thomas the Tank Engine is retiring from Amtrak’s rolling stock, the company announced Thursday. Thomas’s retirement marks the end of an era for Amtrak, being the last 100-year-old engine to pull an Acela train.
For several weeks, passengers riding the Amtrak Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and Wilmington, DE have reported seeing a train conductor who looks uncannily like the 47th Vice President of the United States.
The Navy Yard was buzzing with excitement on Friday after a junior policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Transportation made a startling discovery.
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March 29, 2017 – Thirty years ago this week, an 18-month struggle over the future of federal highway and mass transit funding came to a head: President Ronald Reagan became the first chief executive to veto a federal-aid highway authorization bill, and Congress overrode the veto.