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Thursday, December 11, 2008 (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters Announces New Data Showing Record Low Highway Fatalities; Americans Safer than ever on the Nation’s Roads, Rails, and in the Skies.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters...
Friday, September 25, 1998 (Washington, DC)
Federal Railroad Administrator Jolene M. Molitoris today announced proposed revisions to the regulations governing the inspection and maintenance of steam locomotives. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published in today’s Federal...
Friday, December 05, 2008 (Washington, DC) U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs Washington, D.C. www.dot.gov/affairs/briefing.htm
FRA Issues Proposed Rule to Improve Federal Track Safety Standards. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 (Washington, DC) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced it has determined that the proposed Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern (DM&E) Powder River Basin project has met the requirements of the federal environmental review process, and outlined new...
Tuesday, September 22, 1998 (Washington, DC)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater today announced a proposal to revise and update federal safety regulations that govern both the nation’s railroads and the 40,000 men and women who work as locomotive engineers on America...
Friday, January 26, 2007 (Washington, DC) In response to a deadly derailment in November of last year, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a safety advisory to railroad industry owners and operators urging them to ensure specialized maintenance equipment is only operated by...
Monday, March 19, 2007 (Washington, DC) In the wake of several recent accidents, the federal government today is launching a rail inspection project to check nearly 1,300 miles of track across New York State for flaws that might lead to a train derailment among other new measures designed to...
Friday, March 16, 2007 (Washington, DC) The Federal Railroad Administration announced it will jointly prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) with the California High-Speed Rail Authority for two sections of the state’s proposed high-speed passenger rail project. The two EIS...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 (Washington, DC) The train accident in Oneida, New York and other recent major rail accidents in New York State are of great concern to me and over the past 90-days I have directed the Federal Railroad Administration to take aggressive steps to find out what went wrong....
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 (Washington, DC) The number of train accidents declined for the second year in a row and there were fewer highway-rail grade crossing collisions according to preliminary 2006 rail safety data announced today by U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters...