- Ashley Halsey III
D.C. region paying more for gas
With uncertainty in the Middle East pushing the price of crude oil, gas prices in the Washington region have climbed an average of 50 cents per gallon higher than they were at this time last year.
House Republicans’ transportation bill survives a beating in committees
Three days after House Republicans presented a plan for transportation funding, the bill had weathered a hail of criticism, including charges that it would gut the funding guarantees on which mass transit has relied for 30 years.
Big game brings drunk-driving worries
The government says 40 percent of fatal crashes on Super Bowl Sunday in 2010 involved alcohol.
Lawmakers debates effects of longer, heavier trucks on highways
The House Transportation Committee Thursday debated the effects of allowing bigger and longer trucks on the nation’s highways.
- Region would gain under House highway funding proposal
- Funding mandate for bike, pedestrian projects defeated
- Capital Bikeshare program looks to spread into the Washington suburbs
- House Republicans to unveil transportation bill
- Streetcars to return soon to the District
- Southwest employee dies after accident at Dulles
- Senate moves toward agreement on transportation bill
- Long-term transportation funding likely to be delayed
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