WASHINGTONPOST (Sammy Westfall) - 110 commercial trucking schools ordered to close over English-language rules
The crackdown is part of a broader effort to remove undocumented immigrants from the country, the Department of Homeland Security said.
NYTIMES (Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano) - Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It.
“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”
NPR (Joel Rose) - DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites
Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.
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NPR (Joel Rose) - Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures
The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.
AXIOS (Alex Isenstadt) - Duffy's push for son-in-law's House campaign sparks backlash in Wisconsin
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is going all-out to get his 26-year-old son-in-law elected to a Wisconsin House seat, infuriating Republicans in the district who say he's abusing his office and access to President Trump . Driving the news: The campaign of first-time candidate Michael Alfonso has Duffy's fingerprints all over it — from Trump's endorsement of him at Duffy's urging, to tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money from transportation interests that the secretary holds sway over. What they're saying: Duffy "is exploiting his Cabinet position and fame to influence an election and hand one of the nation's highest offices to his unqualified, 26-year-old son-in-law," Meg Ellefson, a Wisconsin-based podcaster and former…
ABCNEWS - Airlines reduce, cap fares for Spirit travelers looking to rebook cancelled flights
The Department of Transportation said Saturday the majority of airlines will be capping tickets prices for Spirit travelers who need to rebook their cancelled flights.
HUFFPOST - Hundreds Of Driving Schools Must Close Over Safety Failures, Transportation Dept. Says
Investigators discovered that the schools employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues.
AXIOS (Alex Thompson) - Buttigieg's baggage from DOT looms as 2028 issue
Pete Buttigieg is widely admired as a first-class communicator. But many Democrats think he's lacking as an administrator — and are pointing to his time as President Biden 's transportation secretary. Why it matters: Several of Buttigieg's potential rivals for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president are quietly beginning to pick at his work in Biden's Cabinet as a vulnerability, rather than an asset. - They argue that Buttigieg was at times unable to navigate the federal bureaucracy to get hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure projects built or launched quickly enough, and that such failures contributed to Donald Trump returning to the White House. - Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., has little…