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News Articles: transportation

Let’s Ride Atlanta offers free electric shuttle services in partnership with local businesses. Their latest parentship with Decatur will drive downtown residents to the nearby Publix through April.

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  • News

Supermarket closure inspires local shuttle service program

Officials in metro Atlanta are launching a shuttle service helping residents reach the grocery store after one location, nicknamed the “Baby” Kroger, shut down after more than 20 years.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images

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  • News

Federal grants will put more electric school buses on Georgia roads

A handful of school districts around the state will transition at least some of their bus fleet to electric buses, thanks to money from the federal government. 

November 23, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Brandie Diamond describes herself as a "transgender truck driver/chef/Jill-of-all-trades." But her career in trucking began in the mid-1980s, and she hadn't come out as trans back then.

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  • Mental Health

What women truckers can tell us about living and working alone

American long-haul truckers share wisdom from the road on living where you work

July 22, 2022
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  • Adelina Lancianese
Los Angeles city workers working to remove the unauthorized crosswalks painted at the intersection of Romaine Street and N. Serrano Avenue.

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  • National

LA removes crosswalks allegedly painted by a secretive group

A series of DIY crosswalks are being replaced in Los Angeles. City officials say they're clearing the way for a better and safer intersection.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Data from the Los Angeles Police Department shows 128 pedestrians were killed in the City of Los Angeles in 2021, an increase of 6% over 2020.

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  • National

A secretive LA group has a new mission: paint untouched crosswalks

"We've been met with delays, excuses, and inaction from our city government," says the Crosswalk Collective LA. Now, the group has taken matters into its own hands and hopes to spread a DIY message.

March 31, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Painter Irfan Mohammad works on a truck at a sprawling workshop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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  • World

These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads

Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

February 05, 2022
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  • Hannah Bloch
This image provided by the Virginia department of Transportation shows a closed section of Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Va., on Monday.

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  • Weather

Virginia officials defend response to snowy gridlock on I-95

There was plenty of outrage from motorists, some of whom were stranded overnight Monday into Tuesday, posting pleas for help on social media.

January 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Construction workers build a sound wall along Interstate Highway 66 in Fairfax, Va., this past August. While Congress debates President Biden's infrastructure bill, some rural transportation projects are in limbo.

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  • National

Transportation planners wait for money as the infrastructure plan stalls in Congress

Democrats say they're close to a deal on the broad reconciliation bill, but transportation planners are anxious because a short-term extension on federal highway and transit programs runs out Sunday.

October 26, 2021
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By:
  • David Schaper
Traffic in Atlanta

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  • Economy

Rising transportation tax revenues show Georgians back to driving, traveling

The DOT collected $174 million in motor fuels tax revenue last month, state Commissioner of Transportation Russell McMurry told members of the State Transportation Board Thursday. That represents a 9.1% increase over September of last year.

October 21, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Georgia SRTA

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  • News

Toll Lane Revenues Show Georgia Traffic Getting Back To Normal

Traffic is picking up in Georgia as the coronavirus pandemic wanes, and it’s reflected in new revenue projections for the state’s toll lanes.

June 24, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Williams
A systemwide outage Monday night affected Southwest Airlines flights across the country.

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  • Business

Southwest Airlines Grapples With Another Outage, Halting Flights

Southwest Airlines flights were delayed across the country Monday night because of a problem with the company's weather data provider. Flights were again delayed on Tuesday.

June 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • James Doubek
Emergency personnel search for survivors after a raised subway track collapsed Monday night in Mexico City.

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  • World

Mexico City Metro Train Derails, Killing At Least 23 And Injuring Dozens

The subway train derailment occurred on Line 12 at Olivos Station in Mexico City. Photos from the scene show two train cars dangling precariously from the elevated track.

May 04, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Scott Neuman
Inside Macon's Terminal Station

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  • Economy

With 'Amtrak Joe' In The White House, Hopes Build For Passenger Rail Rebirth

Proposed Georgia rail route would stretch from Savannah, through Atlanta and northward to Nashville.

April 30, 2021
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By:
  • Daniel Vock
Pete Buttigieg speaks on Dec. 16 after he was nominated to be transportation secretary by then-President-elect Joe Biden. Buttigieg faced a largely friendly reception at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.

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  • Politics

'Damn Refreshing': Mayor Pete Gets Friendly Reception At Senate Hearing

Transportation secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg made the case for climate action and infrastructure investments at his confirmation hearing. Most senators reacted warmly.

January 21, 2021
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  • Camila Domonoske
Aircraft largely stayed on the ground in spring 2020, leading to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Environment

Pandemic Causes Historic — But Fleeting— Drop In U.S. Climate Emissions

As Americans stayed home during the pandemic, cars and planes produced less heat-trapping emissions. But the effect is only temporary.

January 14, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
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