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By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette
Legislators will spend one more day in special session, after House Republicans blocked a passage vote Thursday on a bill (SB4004) to freeze the state's gasoline tax at the current 32.2 cents a gallon.
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By Thomas Heath, The Washington Post
The Carlyle Group said Thursday that it has signed a deal with Connecticut to refurbish and run the state's 23 highway service stops in return for a share of the revenue over the next 35 years.
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AL: Alabama rolls out new U.S. 280 toll road plan
By Ginny MacDonald and Michael Tomberlin, The Birmingham News
State transportation officials are ready to move forward with a $710 million makeover of U.S. 280 -- a new plan that doesn't rely entirely on elevated toll lanes that doomed a previous proposal to unsnarl the congested highway.
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GA: Grand Central Terminal for Atlanta?
By Ariel Hart, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A plan to build a major passenger terminal in downtown Atlanta might soon boast new life, in the form of an $80 million-plus jump start, state officials said at Transportation Board meetings Wednesday and Thursday.
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HI: School board approves bus fare increase
By Loren Moreno, The Honolulu Advertiser
Public school parents will pay more for their kids to ride the school bus come next year after the state Board of Education voted 8-2 tonight to raise one-way fares from 35 cents to 75 cents.
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ID: ITD hires new director
By Ben Botkin, The Times-News (Twin Falls)
The Idaho Transportation Department has a new director, just days after the former director sued the state agency over her firing.
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IL: State senator would consider leasing tollway
By Joseph Ryan, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
State Sen. Bill Brady, a Bloomington Republican, says he would consider selling the Illinois tollway to a private company if elected to the state's top post, putting him at odds with at least one challenger in the GOP primary for governor.
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IL: I-90 could get new ramps at Barrington Road
By Krystyna Slivinski, Chicago Tribune
Village officials have lobbied transportation officials for the last two decades to add two more ramps at the Barrington Road interchange -- an offramp for eastbound traffic and an on-ramp for westbound traffic.
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MA: State ready to fill in Big Dig's missing links
By Peter DeMarco, The Boston Globe
It was touted as the Big Dig's greatest open-space gift to Boston: a spectacular ribbon of parks, paths, and pedestrian footbridges linking the Esplanade to both the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Boston Harbor. But when the Central Artery/Tunnel Project officially wrapped up two years ago, only half of what was promised had been built.
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MD: State slashes budget by $362M
By Liam Farrell, The Capital (Annapolis)
The latest round of state budget cuts imposed yesterday will limit student financial aid, slice Medicaid payments to hospitals and even reduce commuter bus trips for state employees when the legislature is not in session.
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ME: Maine high court rules against ATV rider
By The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's highest court has overturned a lower court judge's ruling that a state law that authorized game wardens to stop all-terrain vehicle operators without cause was unconstitutional.
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MN: State says it needs more than stimulus
By The Associated Press, St. Paul Pioneer Press
The state Department of Transportation said in its 20-year plan, released this week, that federal economic stimulus money does not solve immediate or long-term funding needs.
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SC: 'Superload' could be big draw on Upstate roads
By Paul Alongi, The Greenville News
A load longer and heavier than a jumbo jet will today begin a slow trek across Greenville County, clogging some of the area's busiest roads and leaving in its wake an economic impact expected to reach the tens of thousands of dollars.
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SD: DOT -- Highway tax hike unlikely
By Bob Mercer, Capital Journal (Pierre)
The Legislature will be presented a package of proposed tax increases for highway funding in the 2010 session, but state Transportation Secretary Darin Bergquist said Thursday he doesn't foresee lawmakers coming up with any more money for road maintenance and projects.
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WI: Asian carp may have breached barrier
By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the situation told the Journal Sentinel late Thursday.
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WV: Vote block extends special session to fourth day
By Staff and Wire Reports, Charleston Daily Mail
House Republicans on Thursday blocked the Legislature from voting on two bills sought by the Manchin administration, throwing a special session into a fourth day. In a largely symbolic move, the Republicans prevented Democrats from suspending House rules Thursday to advance one bill that would have made changes to the state gasoline tax and another to encourage the use of energy sources other than coal by state utilities.
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