According to the Louisiana Transportation Department, more than 18 miles of Interstate 220 near Shreveport were closed.
That lowest clearance is outside of the bridge's vehicle traveling lanes, Transportation Department communications director Lars Erickson said Friday.
The Transportation Department had allowed domestic flights to resume for the first time since Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.
So too were the utilitarian offices of the State Highway and Transportation Department.
"Spring storms are not unusual, but they can be very dangerous, " said Greg Fuller, operations director for the Transportation Department.
Indeed, the Transportation Department hasn't proposed such a law yet, though it's pretty safe to say it's at least pondering it.
ENGADGET: Transportation Department to propose mandatory black boxes in passenger vehicles?
In the past five years United has failed to crack the top four in fewest customer complaints, according to the Transportation Department.
Obama chose Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois to head the Transportation Department and Rep. Hilda Solis of California for labor secretary.
U.S. Transportation Department officials said the steep drop in applications by states for the latest federal funding was due to several factors.
The Transportation department also is nearing the completion of a set of electronics guidelines for auto makers that will dictate certain safety protocols.
The Justice Department evaluates all airline mergers and acquisitions on competitive grounds with the Transportation Department and FAA chirping in background advice.
Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Transportation Department inspector general who remains outspoken on aviation safety as a lawyer in private practice, agreed with Goglia.
CNN: Quick fix for Dreamliner looks less likely, experts say
The Transportation Department's inspector general said in a report that the consolidation effort is part of the FAA's program to replace deteriorating and outdated equipment.
The Transportation Department's inspector general didn't find any safety violations, however.
The number of bridges the state's transportation department considers structurally deficient has grown nearly 50% in the past six years, according to a 2012 government report.
The complaints are regarded as indicators of a larger problem because many passengers may not realize they can file complaints with the Transportation Department, which regulates airlines.
Citizens of metro Atlanta experienced their first "code red smog alert" since 2010, according to the Clean Air Campaign, a partnership between employers and the state transportation department.
The Transportation Department's statement said it has doubled the number of bus inspections of the nation's estimated 4, 000 passenger bus companies, from 12, 991 in 2005 to 28, 982 in 2011.
Top Boeing, Transportation Department and FAA officials said at a news conference on Friday announcing the federal safety review that it was important to maintain public confidence in the Dreamliner.
Could it have been influenced by the fact that a former senior official of the UAE company, David Sanborn, was recently named the new administrator of the Transportation Department's Maritime Administration?
Officials also ordered "10 individual bus company owners, managers and employees to cease all passenger transportation operations, which includes selling bus tickets to passengers, " the Transportation Department said in a news release.
In March, the Transportation Department announced a new program, "Look Before You Book, " and a smartphone app that allows users to access the safety records of nearly 6, 000 interstate commercial passenger carriers.
Statistics reported Thursday by the U.S. Transportation Department show that for the 12 months ending Aug. 31, nearly 84% of all domestic flights arrived on time, well above the 25-year average of 78.5%.
FORBES: As American Airlines' On-Time Rate Improves, Can We Dispense with the Media Outrage?
That report says an initial investigation by the U.S. Transportation Department found essentially the same thing that investigators uncovered when they looked into sudden-acceleration complaints about Audis in the 1980s: driver error.
The proposal approved by the Senate would allow the Transportation Department to adjust funding to "prevent reduced operations and staffing" for the remainder of the current federal budget year, which expires on September 30.
The Washington Transportation Department has set up detours.
The board said Transportation Department officials were in the process of shutting down Sky Express at the time of the crash but had given the company an extra 10 days to appeal an unsatisfactory safety rating.
The 26 shutdown orders apply to nine active companies, 13 companies already ordered out of service that were continuing to operate, three companies attempting to apply for operating authority and one ticket seller, the Transportation Department said.
The Senate legislation, crafted by lawmakers in both parties, would give the Transportation Department, which administers the Federal Aviation Administration, more budget flexibility to reduce the number of air-traffic controller furloughs, which had caused this week's flight delays.
In other floor action, the House debated and rejected, 194-225, an amendment by Republican Rep. Marge Roukema of New Jersey to replace a Transportation Department program that sets a goal of providing 10 percent of transportation projects to businesses owned by women and minorities with another program that would recruit and provide assistance to such businesses.
应用推荐