Sentences with phrase «into federal highway»

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This amendment increases the «look back» period from 18 months to five years to both strengthen the penalty provisions to encourage compliance and bring State provisions into line with recent federal regulations to promote highway safety.

It also set into motion a decades - long federal effort to better understand highway safety.

National: As President Obama signs the new five - year $ 305 billion FAST ACT highway bill into law, the «public private partnership» industry sees it as a mixed bag, increasing federal TIFIA infrastructure subsidies to private investors on the one hand, and allowing states to dip into National Highway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is consthighway bill into law, the «public private partnership» industry sees it as a mixed bag, increasing federal TIFIA infrastructure subsidies to private investors on the one hand, and allowing states to dip into National Highway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is constHighway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is constrained.

A little over a year ago, our colleagues at Federal Highways sprang into action after a fire brought down a bridge on a busy Atlanta highway.

On January 2, 2001, the Department established the TIFIA Credit Council for the administration of the TIFIA Program, via a Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrators of the Federal Highway Administration, FRA, and the Federal Transit Administration.

The federal standard requires only a 2.5 - mph bumper, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety keeps testing cars at 5 mph, hoping to cajole the industry into strengthening bumpers.This year, the institute tested 14 mid-sized sedans and found that car bumpers are better, but still not good.The best performer, the Honda Accord LX, suffered $ 1,433 in damage.

According to the Wall Street Journal, federal data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in December 2017 shows that safety features being built into cars in recent years have allowed for a drop in auto fatalities.

Congress is trying to get into the act, too; last year Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) introduced a bill that would strip states of some of their federal Highway Trust Fund money if they don't take action on the problem.