Investigation of pilots who overflew airport could be hindered by older model cockpit recorderWASHINGTON — Safety investigators say the Northwest Airlines plane whose two pilots overflew their destination by 150 miles had an older model cockpit voice recorder that records only 30 minutes at a time. Houston’s low-key mayoral candidates pitch planning, mass transit for city reinventing itselfHOUSTON — The nation’s fourth-largest city, once dominated by Big Oil, is warming to greener options as it chooses a new mayor. House, lacking long-term solutions, votes short-term extension for FAA programsWASHINGTON — With Congress distracted by health care and disagreeing over transportation policy, the House was forced Wednesday to take emergency steps to keep key air and highway programs going through the end of the year. Administration, congressman collide on how to remake federal highway, transit programsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration and the House’s top Democrat on transportation policy agree on the need to improve highways, cut traffic congestion and get people out of their cars by providing better transportation alternatives. Mass. transit authority banning driver cell phones after crash blamed on text-messagingBOSTON — Massachusetts transportation officials announced Wednesday they were immediately banning nearly all mass-transit drivers in Boston from using or even carrying cell phones or other personal digital assistants after a text-messaging trolley driver caused a crash last week that injured nearly 50 people. Congress, interests groups eye about $500 billion in transportation projectsWASHINGTON — A House committee chairman wants to spend close to a half trillion dollars to solve the nation’s transportation woes, but first he has to sell the public on what they’ll get for their money before asking Congress to pay for it. |
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