In The News

• SPECIAL REPORT: VDOT puts 19 rest areas on chopping block

  By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer, LandLine
  Posted May 22nd 2009 5:11AM

  Virginia Department of Transportation officials submitted their final recommendation to close 19 rest areas in the st...

• DOT chief LaHood says Recovery Act making dent in recession

  By The Trucker News Services
  Posted May 22nd 2009 5:09AM

  U.S. DOT Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the National Press Club that the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

• Committee urges transparency for earmarks

  By David Tanner, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted May 22nd 2009 5:08AM

  The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has received funding requests for 6,868 “high priority pr...

• Highway Trust Fund headed for the red, again

  By David Tanner, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted May 22nd 2009 5:05AM

  In September 2008, Congress enacted an emergency measure to restore $8 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it r...

• Renovations set for busy I-64 bridge in West Virginia

  By The Associated Press
  Posted May 22nd 2009 5:00AM

  CHARLESTON, W.Va.  —  It's the most-traveled bridge in the state. Now officials are taking steps to ...