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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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highways stories: 37 news summaries

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States Consider Leasing Roads as Upkeep Takes Toll

$12.8B deal could make Penn. Turnpike largest such public-private partnership

Aug 26, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Pennsylvania legislators set to vote next month on a $12.8 billion deal that would put the 537-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike under private operation, such public-private partnerships are accelerating across the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. Often bankrolled by infrastructure funds—which have $160 billion under management—the projects... More »

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transit • Pennsylvania • road budget • Gov. Ed Rendell • highways • Indiana Toll Road • Department of Transportation

 Texas Bus Crash Kills 13 

Charter was bound for religious event

Aug 8, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(AP) - A bus carrying members of a Vietnamese church group to a religious festival crashed onto its side and then skidded off a freeway 64 miles north of Dallas today, killing at least 13 people. Authorities said 24 others were hospitalized. The bus carrying 55 people from Houston to Missouri may... More »

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Texas • crash • highways • buses


 Cash Tolls Race 
 Toward Extinction 

'Open-road' payment systems catch on nationwide

Jul 28, 08 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cash toll booths are going the way of the Model T as "open-road tolling"—which lets drivers pay electronically without having to slow for booths or gates—gains traction, reports USA Today. Supporters say killing the cash-based system cuts down on everything from congestion to pollution to... More »

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Texas • traffic • tollbooth • highways • gas tax • open-road tolling

Waiting for Green Has Gas-Conscious Seeing Red

Needless idling in turn lanes irks Calif. drivers

Jun 11, 08 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though their safety value in heavy traffic isn't disputed, some Californians are starting to see left-turn arrows as a drag on ever-pricier gas and an avoidable threat to the environment, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports. The California Energy Commission estimates that idling for 2 minutes (often a needless waste of time,... More »

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traffic • fuel • gas prices • highways • traffic accident • fuel costs • traffic light

OPINION

Surplus Signs Driving Motorists to Distraction

Too much information along roads may be creating a hazard

Jun 11, 08 2:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drivers in America are often confronted with a forest of signs reminding them of speed limits and traffic control measures—but the overwhelming information may be making roadways more dangerous, John Staddon writes in the Atlantic. The glut of reminders can take drivers' attention away from the road and dull... More »

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car accident • traffic • highway safety • driving • highways

OPINION

Cheer Up! Recession Has
a Bright Side

Finally contractors come on time, and driving is easier

May 24, 08 7:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - While the specter of recession may leave you cold, consider the bright side: These days contractors, starved for work, actually show up on time, and killer gas prices help you to drive around a city like Los Angeles without facing much traffic, Meghan Daum writes in the Los Angeles ... More »

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contractors • Los Angeles • recession • gas prices • highways • weakening economy • Meghan Daum

OPINION

Clinton Spurns Economists
at Her Peril

Tough talk on gas tax opens candidate to Bush comparisons

May 5, 08 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - In dismissing what she called “elite opinion” and embracing the gas tax holiday, Hillary Clinton has adopted a regressive energy policy, Andrew Leonard of Salon writes. Her declaration yesterday—“I’m not going to put my lot in with economists”—smacks of George Bush’s worst moments... More »

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Hillary Clinton • highways • George W. Bush • gas tax holiday • experts

GPS Beams Laughs to British Drivers

Comedy sketches
make traffic jams
a little funnier 

May 3, 08 7:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world's first satellite navigation comedy has British drivers chuckling up and down the country's busiest highway, the Guardian reports. The "satcom," called 230 Miles of Love, features audio comedy sketches set to play when drivers reach certain points along the country's 230-mile-long M6 highway. More »

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United Kingdom • comedy • driving • GPS • highways • satellite navigation

Freeway Shootings Rattle Los Angeles

Cops say troubling spate of firings is random violence

Apr 1, 08 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A string of freeway shootings in Los Angeles County is causing more jitters than usual on its jam-packed arteries, the Los Angles Times reports. Windows of six cars were shot out by a mystery sniper wielding a BB gun yesterday, the day after a driver died from a possibly self-inflicted... More »

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California • motorists • road rage • Los Angeles • highways • shooting • highway patrol • highway shootings

GPS Network Aims to Beat Traffic Jams

New unit pools data from cars to warn
of congested roads

Mar 25, 08 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - You may soon be able to evade a traffic jam with a little help from your fellow driver, the Washington Post reports. California start-up Dash Navigation is launching a GPS device that collects speed and location data from vehicles, then uses the information to figure out which roads are... More »

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Microsoft • Washington DC • traffic • GPS • highways • Dash Navigation • drivers • Sunnyvale • INRIX

Feds Probe
SC Highway Cops for Bias

Dash videos reveal racial slurs, cars ramming suspects

Mar 21, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dash-cam videos that show the South Carolina Highway Patrol ramming black suspects with patrol cars and using racial slurs have triggered a federal probe, the State reports. In one of the five incidents, a trooper sent a suspect flying with his cruiser and then told a fellow officer, "Yeah,... More »

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police • South Carolina • federal investigation • racism • highways • police pursuits • state troopers • highway patrol

Boys Survive Being Hurled From Overpass 

Mom could face attempted capital murder charges

Mar 13, 08 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police don't know why a young mother threw her young sons from a Dallas highway overpass into rush-hour traffic yesterday before leaping off herself—but they're completely stunned that all three survived, AP reports. "It was really miraculous that we didn't have some fatalities," said the local police... More »

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Texas • Dallas • family • highways

I-35 Beckons the Faithful

Prayer movement hopes to touch communities along highway

Feb 16, 08 6:45 PM CST
(Newser) - A group of Dallas Pentecostal Christians reading the Bible one day noted that Isaiah 35, Verse 8, mentions a "highway for holiness." That put them in mind of nearby Interstate 35, which runs from Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minn., NPR reports, and that, in turn, prompted an unusual... More »

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Christianity • Bible • prayer • highways • evangelicals • Pentecostals • Cindy Jacobs • Interstate 35

State Tolls Rising—Some by 50%

Subprime crisis has officials scrambling to pay for infrastructure

Jan 28, 08 7:28 PM CST
(Newser) - As subprime fallout ripples across the country, several states are planning to increase road, bridge, and tunnel tolls, and not by mere pennies, USA Today reports. The George Washington Bridge, for example—which lets New Jerseyites into the Big Apple—will raise its rush hour price from $5 to $8... More »

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California • New Jersey • New York • Pennsylvania • Indiana • toll • highways • Indiana Toll Road

Boston's $14.8B 'Big Dig' All Dug

Costliest highway project in US history finally complete

Dec 26, 07 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The most complicated and expensive highway project in American history is finally complete, AP reports. After 16 years of excavating and building, the ambitious "Big Dig" tunnel project under Boston will be turned over to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority January 1. The final price tag was $14.8 billion—... More »

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Boston • construction • Big Dig • highways • excavation

Taser Trooper Cleared

No wrongdoing found in YouTube , death threats continue

Dec 1, 07 6:46 AM CST
(Newser) - A Utah Highway Patrolman who Tasered a motorist in the back has been cleared of wrongdoing, the Deseret Morning News reports. A public-safety panel found that cop Jon Gardner had been justified in zapping motorist Jon Massey as he was walking back to his car after a traffic stop. Gardner... More »

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YouTube • police • Utah • highways • Taser

Hit the Road, Jack—or You Can Lease It

Critics balk as states privatize highways
to raise capital

Oct 24, 07 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cruising the Goldman Sachs Turnpike might not be as futuristic as it seems, Time reports, as more states lease highways to private companies to raise quick cash for infrastructure needs. And backlash didn't stop Indiana from grabbing $3.8 billion for a 75-year lease on the Indiana Toll Road. States... More »

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Carlyle Group • Goldman Sachs • privatization • highways • House Transportation Committee • Indiana Toll Road • governor

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