Transportation News from Road Guy Rob

O'Hare is cutting 300 flights a day this summer after some stern words from the FAA. A federal judge saved a D.C. bike lane from getting paved over. Road deaths hit their lowest rate in a decade. How spiking oil prices will affect shipping and traffic. Automakers want to kill the federal gas tax. California high-speed rail balloons to $125 billion. Maryland fires the Key Bridge contractor. New Jersey Transit wants $150 for a World Cup ride. And Amtrak is suing the MTA over Penn Station, again.

Madison Square Garden might have to move so Penn Station can make a comeback. Seattle just put a railroad on a floating bridge. Indiana wants truckers to pay $84 to cross the state. DART cuts a deal to survive, Chicago sues the feds, LA picks a route to Hollywood, and pedestrian deaths are finally turning around.

Oregon is still wrestling with a transportation funding crisis. Lawmakers now want to move the tax referendum from November to May. DART in Dallas dodges a bullet. BART in San Francisco may not be so lucky. And are Waymo taxis actually safer?

Crews had a lot of work to dig out the South from the historic winter storm at the end of January. On this episode we look at FAA spending and staffing, political fighting halting a critical New York-New Jersey train tunnel project, and the quiet death of a Minnesota commuter rail line.Go more in-depth with the longer FAST TRACK podcast, exclusively for contributors at patreon.com/RoadGuyRob