The Reason Foundation for example, recently released a report saying that hydrogen cars are no panacea for the transportation problem.
Plus, the coffee shop is in Palo Alto, 32 miles away from my work, and I have that transportation payment problem.
The good news is that so-called green transportation is a solution to a problem that is more contrived than real given the global oil boom and the emergence of natural gas, not electric motors, as the major alternative to gasoline and diesel.
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Combine that with an unemployment rate in construction of over 20% and you have an economic problem that overshadows manufacturing, transportation, and all the rest.
"I think that the answer to reducing our petroleum-import problem and reducing the carbon emissions from transportation is really threefold, " he said.
The problem is so deadly that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has placed substance-impaired driving on its annual Most Wanted List highlighting the most critical changes needed to reduce transportation accidents and save lives.
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"Concerning public transportation and event facilities, there seems to be no problem in hosting an event of such scope, " he said.
Mr. HINCHMAN: We've chosen the stricter California program because it's the only policy option available to us that we can use to reduce pollution emissions from the transportation sector, which is the most polluting and fastest-growing problem in terms of air quality in the Northeast.
Richard Capka, administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, said Thursday that the agency would quickly advise transportation agencies around the country of steps they should take if a systematic problem with gusset plates was found, though he said no such advisory was yet in the works.
The complaints are regarded as indicators of a larger problem because many passengers may not realize they can file complaints with the Transportation Department, which regulates airlines.
Another problem is that only a fraction of the children, whose parents can afford transportation, make it to hospitals and malnutrition centers.
The security information on the barcodes is only meant to be decoded by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers, so it was not thought to be a problem that PreCheck selected which users would get a less rigorous safety check in advance.
In a joint statement on Thursday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta reiterated that they are determined to fix the problem.
"There's never been any proof that self-certification ever resulted in a problem in an aircraft, " said John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the nation's top aviation investigation agency.
Hands-free calling "isn't the big problem in America, " Mr. LaHood said, after a December proposal by the National Transportation Safety Board called for a complete ban on cellphone use while driving.
Mark Rosekind, a National Transportation Safety Board member who formerly directed a sleep research center at Stanford University, says it's a pervasive problem that requires a culture change to fix.
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