Daily Transportation Update

News
State DOT News

Governor Moore Announces Maryland Department of Transportation Leadership Transition (Maryland Governor's Office news release)

Preventing crashes, protecting wildlife is goal of new Washington state plan (Washington State Standard)

NCDOT prepares for 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season (WWAY-TV)

Practice Makes Perfect: NYSDOT Emergency Staging Drill (NYSDOT podcast)

Safety

Georgia braces for ‘Operation Southern Slow Down’ as safety campaign launches (WXIA-TV)

KYTC launches “Not so fast, Kentucky” campaign (WBKO-TV)

Arizona DOT says traffic fatalities statewide declined for the second year in a row (Arizona DOT news release)

Idaho Celebrates Designated Drivers and Summer Safety Efforts (ITD news release)

Funding and Finance

Polling Suggests It’s Time to Rethink How We Fund Roads (DC Journal commentary)

A new study shows Mackinac Bridge operations, events contribute $193 million to Michigan’s economy (Michigan DOT news release)

MoDOT receives approval for FY 2026-2030 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (MoDOT news release)

Connected and Automated Vehicles

Autonomous truck rules turned back at statehouses (Land Line)

Highways and Streets

Knoxville’s First Advanced Traffic Management System Approved By City Council (WATE-TV)

Congress

Senate confirms Bryan Bedford as FAA administrator (ABC News)

Duffy to Testify at T&I Committee Hearing July 16 (US House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure)

Freight

USDA Shuts Down US Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico (US Department of Agriculture)

Public Transportation

Muni Says It’s Ready To Modernize San Francisco’s Subway By Tossing The Floppy Disks That Control It (San Francisco Chronicle)

Three Washington transit agencies test out hydrogen-powered buses (KNKX Radio)

Will statewide commuter rail service happen in Delaware? A study awaits federal approval. (News Journal)

MBTA Service Delivery Policy Annual Report (Massachusetts Office of Performance Management and Innovation)

Measuring Access: Improvements in MBTA Elevator and Platform Accessibility Metrics (Massachusetts Office of Performance Management and Innovation)

Planning

Orange County, California’s free trollies offer lessons for transit planners (Orange County Register editorial)

Environment and Sustainability

Massachusetts is behind on its climate goals. Could tracking vehicle mileage be the answer? (WGBH Radio’s All Things Considered)

Aviation

There are now 92 US cities and airports planning for eVTOL commercial operations (Unmanned Airspace)

San Francisco and Portland, Oregon Airports Among UNESCO’s World’s Most Beautiful Airports (Business Traveler)

Airline Service Quality Performance Data – April 2025 (BTS)

Security And Resilience

CBP demonstrates perils of maritime smuggling along US-Mexico border (KFMB-TV)

Active Transportation

Colorado Pacific no longer pursuing rails-to-trails conversion on abandoned tracks (Alamosa Citizen)

Workforce

With new power, Trump will move immediately to lay off federal workers (USA Today)

US Department of Transportation

Duffy picked as Interim NASA Administrator (Spaceflight Now)

Duffy to Recipients of Federal Funds: We’re Tossing All Biden-Era DEI Directives (USDOT)

Federal Register Information
Coast Guard
Proposed Rules

Security Zone; Intracoastal Waterway, Palm Beach, FL

30603 - 30605 [2025-12819] PDF TXT
Executive Office Of The President
Rules

Extending the Modification of the Reciprocal Tariff Rates

30823 - 30824 [2025-12962] PDF TXT
Federal Aviation Administration
Rules

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes

30577 - 30580 [2025-12858] PDF TXT

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Airplanes

30585 - 30588 [2025-12860] PDF TXT

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters

30581 - 30583 [2025-12873] PDF TXT

Airworthiness Directives; DG Aviation GmbH (Type Certificate Previously Held by DG Flugzeugbau GmbH) Gliders

30575 - 30577 [2025-12875] PDF TXT

Removal of Class E Airspace; Sunbury, PA

30590 - 30591 [2025-12885] PDF TXT

Airworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation Airplanes

30588 - 30590 [2025-12893] PDF TXT

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Airplanes

30583 - 30585 [2025-12894] PDF TXT
Federal Highway Administration
Notices

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions on Proposed Highway Projects in Texas

30769 - 30771 [2025-12884] PDF TXT
Federal Transit Administration
Notices

National Transit Database Reporting Changes and Clarifications for Report Years 2025 and 2026

30771 - 30776 [2025-12813] PDF TXT
Surface Transportation Board
Notices

Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company-Acquisition of Control-Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company

30763 - 30769 [2025-12871] PDF TXT
US Department Of Transportation
Notices

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Exemptions for Air Taxi Operations

30776 - 30776 [2025-12880] PDF TXT