Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said Tuesday morning that eight people were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when a container ship rammed into one of its supports, causing the bridge to collapse into the frigid Patapsco River below.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2024 @ 9:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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I recently wrote about “How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy.”
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s no-more-stringent law forbids state environmental agencies from imposing stricter environmental regulations than required by the federal government
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay to a Department of Transportation worker fired in connection with falsified bus driver recertification.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After serving for twenty-seven years in state government, including the last three as secretary for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), Eric Boyette is retiring.
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A fired state Department of Transportation worker urges the full 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals to rehear his lawsuit challenging the dismissal.
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 12:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that cars were “going electric” whether the people were ready to go along with them or not.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 7:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Secretary Eric Boyette is retiring from state government after 27 years of service.
Published: Saturday, October 14th, 2023 @ 5:06 am
By: Governor's Office
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A top administration official defended President Joe Biden on Sunday amid a large spike in border crossings.
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 11:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Several conservative measures, including a measure to reinstate pilots who lost their jobs after not taking the COVID vaccine, failed in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday during debate on a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 12:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A split N.C. Court of Appeals panel is blocking an order that would have forced the N.C. Department of Transportation to change vendors for a state electronic lien and titling system.
Published: Saturday, July 8th, 2023 @ 2:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gay Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced he will be taking another 6 months of parental leave following his adoption of a section of I-95 south of D.C.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 8:19 am
By: Babylon Bee
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The N.C. Department of Transportation is urging the state's second-highest court to step into a contract dispute.
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 3:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is calling on the DOT to address a long-standing inequity by using more gay crash test dummies in their automobile crash safety tests.
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 1:19 am
By: Babylon Bee
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The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the explosion last week at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory that left several people dead.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 8:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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Officials with the United States Surface Transportation Board approved the merger of Kansas City Southern Railway Company and Canadian Pacific Railway Limited on Wednesday, marking the first combination of major rail companies in two decades.
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 3:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation unveiled its Clean Transportation Plan Wednesday. They say it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance “environmental justice,” and create good-paying jobs tied to clean transportation.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Global rail systems company will invest $220 million in Lexington
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Baseball fans couldn’t be pleased to learn that New York‘s Department of Transportation misspelled the name of Jackie Robinson Parkway, accidentally writing the Hall of Famer’s first name as “Jakie.”
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:15 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Department of Transportation’s inspector general said Monday that it is auditing Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s use of Federal Aviation Administration planes for conducting official trips.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during the most recent episode of “Verdict” this week over his handling of the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said during a visit to the train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, that he did not visit the community sooner because he was seeking to give federal investigators room to examine the crisis.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 8:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a trip to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday — but his press secretary appeared unwilling to make any comments about her boss’ activities as long as cameras were rolling.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 8:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reportedly snapped a photo of a journalist from The Daily Caller News Foundation after refusing to answer her questions about the ongoing disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, because he was “taking some personal time.”
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 12:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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In preparation for his long-awaited visit to survey the damage left in the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment disaster, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg's team is briefing him on the catastrophe by using a wooden toy train set.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 1:59 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tried to spin bipartisan criticism of his job performance Wednesday by suggesting that Congress should have played a role in preventing disasters like the still-unfolding situation in East Palestine, Ohio.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 2:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) invited Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to a town hall on Wednesday evening about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, asserting that the official has not heard the concerns of those impacted by the disaster.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 11:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, are collecting and examining evidence related to the crash, which placed the small town at significant risk due to the presence of industrial chemicals on the vehicle.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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One of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttgieg’s main objectives is to push equity into every facet of his department’s actions and policies.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally issued a statement on the train derailment (which has since developed into a toxic chemical environmental disaster) in Ohio on Monday evening
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 12:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republican lawmakers criticized Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for his response to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which marks the most recent of several high-profile infrastructure disasters during his two-year tenure.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 8:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary under President Biden, has reportedly been binge-watching the children's show Thomas the Tank Engine in an effort to understand the recent wave of train derailments that have been plaguing the United States.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 9:35 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has proudly announced that the U.S. has managed to go a whole 24 hours without any trains flying off the tracks and exploding into balls of fire while spewing deadly chemicals into the air.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 3:55 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Residents of a small Ohio town have been forced to evacuate after a deadly spill of vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate chemicals from a train derailment caught fire and destroyed surrounding farmland, waterways, and livestock.
Published: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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