The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has announced the renewal of its Section 6004 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which it assumed FHWA’s responsibility for determining whether certain transportation projects may be categorically excluded from the National Environmental Policy Act review process. The MOU streamlines the federal environmental review process for categorically excluded transportation projects [...]
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FHWA National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Grants
The Federal Highway Administration has announced the award of over $9.4 million in grants to rehabilitate and preserve 14 historic covered bridges in 10 states under the fiscal year 2009 National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation (NHCBP) program. The project grant selections included the Blair Covered Bridge in Grafton County, N.H, one of the earliest examples [...]
National Safe Routes to School
The National Center for Safe Routes to School has released a new report that provides baseline results on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) travel data from across the United States. The report summarizes data from parent surveys and student travel tallies collected by local SRTS programs from April 2007 to May 2009. The report finds [...]
WSDOT Stewardship Potential on Scenic Recreational Highways
The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a technical report on a study to develop a resource planning index for use in benchmarking and tracking the stewardship performance of investments associated with the state’s Scenic and Recreational Highway system. The study conducted a geographic information system (GIS) analysis to identify a unique index value [...]
Oprah Show targets distracted driving on Monday
The Department of Transpiration joined with the National Safety Council in helping launch FocusDriven, the all-survivor distracted driving advocacy group. The Oprah Winfrey Show is devoted to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, the show will feature FocusDriven’s Jennifer Smith and Shelley Forney as guests. Other guests include Reggie Shaw, a young man [...]
