Monday, February 8, 2016 WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that seventy-seven cities have submitted applications for the first-of-its-kind U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge. Medium-sized cities from across the country from Reno to Rochester and Anchorage to Albuquerque represent the depth and breadth of this Challenge. …
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Part of agency’s comprehensive campaign to reduce fatalities at railroad crossings BATON ROUGE, La. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today awarded a $1.1 million grant to the State of Louisiana to increase safety at railroad crossings along six miles of Kansas City Southern tracks from …
The federal government has given a special nod to the Louisiana Chemical Corridor—a 200-mile stretch of refineries and manufacturing facilities located between Lake Charles and New Orleans—by designating it one of 12 new manufacturing communities under the “Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership,” or IMCP, initiative. The designation, which was announced …
