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Commute Should Be Back To Normal This Morning As Wreck Site Is Cleared
The Hartford CourantMetro-North and Amtrak said their trains will run normal weekday schedules on Wednesday morning, for the first time since a Metro-North train derailed near the Fairfield border on Friday and crashed into a train on the adjacent track. Regular service...Tags: Grand Central Terminal, Transportation Industry, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Amtrak
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Metro-North To Resume Full Service Wednesday, Partial Service Tuesday
The Hartford Courant— Traffic was heavy again Tuesday morning as commuters endured one more day without rail service from Bridgeport into New York. At least one backup plan — commuters boarding buses to get to a train — was working, albeit slowly. There...Tags: Grand Central Terminal, Transportation Industry, Railway Accidents, Transportation Accidents, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding -official
ReutersBy Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20 (Reuters) - Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company...Tags: Interior Policy, ConocoPhillips, Crime, Law and Justice, Transportation Industry, U.S. Coast Guard
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5 dead, 6 injured in Illinois passenger van crash
St. Louis Post-DispatchVANDALIA, Ill. A crash that killed five men and injured six near here Monday was another in a series of one-vehicle rollovers that have prompted repeated warnings about 15-passenger vans for years. Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen said the vehicles...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
MERRILLVILLE-SHOOTING Officer shoots man outside medical facility MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana police officer has shot a man while issuing a citation for an illegally parked semitrailer. The Times of Munster reports the...Tags: Autism, Laws, Basketball, Punishment, Prisons
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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding: official
ReutersANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company official told a U.S. Coast...Tags: Interior Policy, Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Transportation Industry, ConocoPhillips
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Reducing the number needed for 'one too many'
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, May 20: When bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunk driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Industry, Bill Clinton, Transportation Accidents, Highway Transportation
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David Zwick: Lowering alcohol limit makes sense
The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended all 50 states reduce the legal blood alcohol limit for driving from the existing .08 to .05. Their reasoning is the level is too high and leaves some drivers still impaired even though they are...Tags: Criminals, Transportation Industry, Mardi Gras
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Metro-North Train Crash Highlights Infrastructure Need
On Friday evening at rush hour, two Metro-North railroad trains, one heading east out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the other heading west out of New Haven toward the Big Apple, approached each other on parallel tracks near Bridgeport. In...Tags: Westport, Disasters and Accidents, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Transportation Industry
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Blowing the limit: Move to lower blood-alcohol content threshold has pros, cons
Bristol Herald Courier, Va.A federal safety commission wants states to get tougher on alcohol-related crashes and fatalities by lowering a blood-alcohol content threshold that has changed only twice in 35 years. One local lawmaker says changing the current .08 level to .05...Tags: Criminals, Disasters and Accidents, Bristol (Bristol, Virginia), Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Industry
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Tighter Ind. drunken driving law seems unlikely
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some key Indiana legislators say it's unlikely that the state will any time soon go along with a federal safety board's recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in half. National Transportation...Tags: Transportation Industry
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BRIEF: 2 killed in plane crash -- GPS led to wreckage
The Sacramento BeeTwo people in a single- engine airplane died early Sunday when their aircraft crashed near Auburn Municipal Airport, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Department. At 12:30 a.m., the sheriff's office received a call from the California Office of...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death
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