House ponders highway bill while rail infrastructure is in question
HOUSE GOP PONDERS HIGHWAY BILL
House to hold hearing on highway bill to figure out funding fix. The Hill:
“The hearing will be the panel’s second meeting about the transportation bill this year as lawmakers search for a way to pay for an extension of the infrastructure funding [as] an $11 billion measure [is] scheduled to expire on May 31.”
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http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/235354-house-schedules-hearing-as-road-funding-deadline-looms
Rail infrastructure strikingly unsafe, says Marcus Stern in NYT oped:
“The public has only one hope of finding out if such centenarian bridges are still sturdy enough to carry these oil trains. Ask the railroads. That’s because the federal government doesn’t routinely inspect rail bridges. In fact, the government lacks any engineering standards whatsoever for rail bridges. Nor does it have an inventory of them … Five oil trains have exploded in the United States in the last 16 months.”
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/opinion/dangerous-trains-aging-rails.html?_r=0&referrer=
