DOT has the same statutory language to effectively ban deceptive flight cancellations, the way the FTC has banned noncompete agreements.
Housing and Transportation
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Posted inTransportation
Government Spending Bill Waives Aircraft Safety Deadline
Boeing gets its way, again.
Posted inTransportation
Boeing’s Lobbying Blitz
The airplane maker is scrambling to get a deadline for improving cockpit safety systems on all planes pushed back.
Posted inTransportation
Defusing Tensions on Transit
The Kansas City transit system eliminated fares and fare evasion. The ensuing challenge? Homeless ‘loop riders.’
Posted inTransportation
Rail Companies Can’t Handle Traffic From Mississippi River Drought
Low water levels have pushed shippers who typically use river barges to use freight rail. But decades of strangled capacity makes rail a bad bet, too.
Posted inTransportation
Fare or Free?
Fare evasion and stepped-up enforcement reignite the debate on fareless transit. If going fare-free is the answer, then the question is: Who pays?
Posted inTransportation
Climate Change and a Turnpike in New Jersey
The governor and construction unions want to expand the New Jersey Turnpike, likely increasing greenhouse gas emissions in a highway-dependent state.
Posted inTransportation
Pete Buttigieg’s Feeble Policy on Flight Cancellations
The transportation secretary could be doing far more with his existing authority. The new DOT rule could make matters worse for consumers.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Bipartisan Highway to Hell—or Heaven?
State and local governments will decide if the infrastructure package makes climate change better or worse.
Posted inHousing
Why We Need Social Housing
What Medicare for All is for health care, social housing is for shelter.
