Sentences with phrase «on rail transportation»

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CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

Weeks later, a FirstEnergy Capital report still clung to the idea that ramped - up rail transportation, new heavy - oil refining capacity in the U.S. Midwest and the easing of the storage glut in Cushing, Okla., would keep this monster on a leash.

Putting a price on roads is often described — to mix transportation metaphors — as the «third rail» of Canadian politics.

While all the activism and heated government rhetoric has concerned pipelines, B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman has made clear his proposed moratorium on added bitumen transportation would apply to rail shipments, too.

Southborough, MA — May 19th, 2017: RxAdvance today announced that the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), one of North America's most dynamic and diverse unions with 216,000 members, has awarded its multi-year pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services contract to RxAdvance beginning on Jan. 1, 2018.

This week's celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Last Spike is an opportunity to reflect not only on the «national dream» of linking Canada from coast to coast, but also on the larger «international dream» of a combined rail and ocean transportation system that linked North America to Asia.

Canadian oil and gas companies and investors continue to face opposition on pipeline construction, reducing the ability to get petroleum products to market and reduce reliance on transportation by rail.

«Our transportation system is more than bridges and light rail, it includes our marine highway that coastal residents and businesses rely on» said Gary Holman, New Democrat spokesperson on BC Ferries.

GPI Aligns with Rail Customer Coalition, Urging the Surface Transportation Board to Move Quickly on Rate Case Challenge Reform, August 1, 2016

GPI Joins other Trade Associations in Requesting the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to Move Forward Quickly on Required Rail Reforms to Improve Shipping for Member Companies and Suppliers to the Glass Container Industry, February 9, 2016

Fifty years later, the rail line folded and the Regional Transportation Authority bought the Rock Island relic for use on work trains.

Two suburban lawmakers on Friday called on the GOP - led state Senate to pass a bill that would require a Department of Transportation study of level grade rail crossing safety statewide.

The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would require the state Department of Transportation to undertake a safety study of level grade rail crossings in New York.

He co-founded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long the New York Task Force for Port, Rail, and Industrial Development, which restored lost jobs to New York's manufacturing and transportation industries and preserved a portion of the Port of New York on the New York side of the harbor in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

At 4 p.m., the state Transportation Department will hold an open house event on the High Speed Rail Empire Corridor, Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, 263 Michigan Ave., Buffalo.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, center, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota, right, on tracks, watch as a worker cuts a gap in a section of track to create a continuous welded rail at the Avenue M Subway Station in Brooklyn, on May 7.

The news comes as several transportation improvements begin today, with the Long Island Rail Road on a weekday schedule on 10 of 11 tracks.

The train struck a tunnel wall and derailed in Harlem because a replacement rail stored on the tracks was not properly bolted down, according to a preliminary investigation by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican who represents Nassau County, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon to take an active role in the negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its labor union in order to avoid a strike on the Long Island Rail Road.

Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City) proposed a bill that would direct the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to spend $ 1.95 billion to accelerate repair, and improve signaling and communications on the commuter rail.

By James Briggs Just three months after insisting there was no stopping a proposed high - speed rail line from being built between Madison and Milwaukee, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday issued the project's death sentence.

He's been meeting with people from one end of the Southern Tier to the other for a year now, and says he's well - versed on all its issues from dairy farming to Route 17 to rail transportation.

The Keene town board adopted a resolution of the board last Monday evening calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of a derailment.

A person was stabbed Friday morning at the Delavan - Canisius College Metro Rail station on Main Street, according to Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Transit police.

[6] He co-founded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force for Port, Rail and Industrial Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's manufacturing and transportation sectors and preserve a portion of the Port of New York on the New York side of the harbor.

He announced the launch of a new marketing campaign that involves utilizing $ 2 million of advertising space on Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Port Authority buses, commuter rail systems and subways to promote upstate tourism destinations.

She says she's pleased about the additional funding for the new rail and bus center here in downtown Rochester, «I think the more we can get people out of their privately owned vehicles and the more we can depend on mass transportation is better for the ecology and for the economy and any lowering of the carbon footprint, quote unquote is a good thing.»

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued new proposed rules on tankers transporting oil including quickly phasing out the use of old DOT - 111 rail cars for moving crude oil and other hazardous liquids.

10 - 6 (2013), introduced by Chairperson Betty Jean Grant (D - Buffalo) and Legislator Timothy R. Hogues (D - Buffalo), which urges the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to discontinue the advertising of alcoholic beverages on the exterior or interior of light rail train cars and buses.

This is one of the reasons Erie, Pa. — based GE Transportation inked a deal on last week with China's Ministry of Railways to better learn how to develop high - speed rail projects in the U.S. View a slide show of international high - speed rail lines for a closer look at how these projects have developed around the world

Rising fuel costs and an emphasis on «greener» modes of transportation are shifting priorities in the U.S. Still, the proposed U.S. projects have their work cut out for them if they hope to match the speed and popularity of established high - speed rail systems in other parts of the world.

Published yesterday in the online version of the journal Nature Climate Change, the study depicts how such a shift could put new strains on U.S. infrastructure, as rails and trains replace riverboats as the primary mode of agricultural transportation.

We congratulate Ann Begeman on being confirmed to the Surface Transportation Board and look forward to working with her to eliminate regulatory barriers to competitive freight rail service and streamline the Board's overly bureaucratic procedures.

To date, the U.S. Department of Transportation has invested $ 10.1 billion to put American communities on track toward new and expanded rail access and improved reliability, speed, and frequency of existing service.

Pilot testing will begin in January 2015 and will initially focus on the safety of crude oil transportation by rail.

U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari today announced that the state of Connecticut will receive $ 120 million in High - Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to complete construction on the Hartford segment of the New Haven to Springfield, Mass. passenger rail corriRail program funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to complete construction on the Hartford segment of the New Haven to Springfield, Mass. passenger rail corrirail corridor.

A cornerstone of our safety policy is ensuring that transportation providers across all modes — on roads, rails, water, or in the air, over land and underground — employ operators who are 100 percent drug - and alcohol - free.

(C) in a case where no party owns more than 50 percent of a station, the persons providing intercity or commuter rail transportation to such station and the owners of the station, other than private party owners, as allocated on an equitable basis by regulation by the Secretary of Ttransportation to such station and the owners of the station, other than private party owners, as allocated on an equitable basis by regulation by the Secretary of TransportationTransportation.

-- It shall be considered discrimination for purposes of section 202 of this Act and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) for a person who provides intercity rail transportation to fail to have on each train which includes one or more single - level rail passenger coaches --

-- The term «specified public transportation» means transportation by bus, rail, or any other conveyance (other than by aircraft) that provides the general public with general or special service (including charter service) on a regularand continuing basis.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined federal, state and local leaders today to break ground on the Port of Miami Intermodal and Rail Reconnection Project.

«With more passengers depending on rail for transportation, Positive Train Control is needed more than ever,» said U.S. Transportation Secretarytransportation, Positive Train Control is needed more than ever,» said U.S. Transportation SecretaryTransportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

Title: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Statement on High - Speed Rail Agreement in Washington State Link: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary...

Like President Obama's transportation proposal, this bill would relieve congestion on our roads, expand our transit and rails systems, and provide Americans with safe, affordable ways to reach their destinations when gas prices are high.

It will also place high - speed rail on equal footing with other transportation programs, revitalize domestic rail manufacturing, and ensure that the nation can reach President Obama's goal of providing 80 percent of Americans access to high - speed rail within 25 years.

Effective today, state departments of transportation will have the ability to use their unspent earmarked highway funds, some of which are nearly 10 years old, on any eligible highway, transit, passenger rail, or port project.

The Iowa Department of Transportation received $ 400,000 to develop a freight and passenger rail transportation model which will expand on Iowa's existing statewide travel demand model used in rail planning activities and used to update its 2009 State RaTransportation received $ 400,000 to develop a freight and passenger rail transportation model which will expand on Iowa's existing statewide travel demand model used in rail planning activities and used to update its 2009 State Rail Plan (Srail transportation model which will expand on Iowa's existing statewide travel demand model used in rail planning activities and used to update its 2009 State Ratransportation model which will expand on Iowa's existing statewide travel demand model used in rail planning activities and used to update its 2009 State Rail Plan (Srail planning activities and used to update its 2009 State Rail Plan (SRail Plan (SRP).

MERIDEN, Conn. — U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari today announced that the state of Connecticut will receive $ 120 million in High - Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to complete construction on the Hartford segment of the New Haven to Springfield, Mass. passenger rail corriRail program funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to complete construction on the Hartford segment of the New Haven to Springfield, Mass. passenger rail corrirail corridor.

Articulate U.S. policy on air, maritime, and land (rail, bus, and trucking) transportation and transportation - related investment and ensure that U.S. transportation policy is reflected in the FTA.

The nation's freight transportation system moves goods on ships, rails and roads.