Davey: Gas tax one way to avert looming state transportation crisis bi13700810 LYNN ? State Transportation Secretary Richard Davey said a gasoline tax increase could help pay for billions of dollars needed road, bridge and mass transit improvements across

Randolph town manager to state transportation head: Cronyism at heart of MBTA bi13700810 Randolph Town Manager David Murphy sent the following letter Feb. 1 to Richard Davey, secretary of transportation/CEO, Department of Transportation, protesting the proposed public transportation cuts

Hand-held cellphone ban unanimously approved by Massachusetts legislative com bi13700810 Drivers would be banned from dialing and even holding cellphones under a bill endorsed by the Legislature?s Joint Transportation Committee yesterday. Proponents of the measure, would make the 10th state to ban hand-held phone use driving, say they want to finish the work they started 2010?s Safe Driving Law. That law banned any form of cellphone use by drivers ..

MassDOT appoints Taunton woman as director of Highway District 5 bi13700810 Department of Transportation secretary and CEO Richard Davey appointed Mary-Joe Perry, of Taunton, as director of MassDOT Highway District 5, an area covers Fall River, Brockton, New Bedford, Attleboro and Cape Cod

Massachusetts man diagnosed rare rabies case bi13700810 NEW YORK (Reuters) - reported first case of human rabies 1935, state health officials said on Friday, after confirming that a Cape Cod man 60s had fallen ill the rare but potentially fatal disease. The Department of Public Health said had determined the man, who was not identified by name, was "diagnosed rabies." The man hospitalized ..

Massachusetts Rabies Victim Fights for Life: Precautions to be Taken to Preve bi13700810 A 60-year-old Barnstable County resident has contracted rabies and been admitted to hospital critical condition. The case the first such the state of for over 70 years, according to a Department of Public Health (DPH) release

Dead man listed on Massachusetts most wanted list bi13700810 BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) - authorities might have trouble bringing one man on the state Probation Department's 10 most wanted list to justice - he's been dead for nearly a decade

State Homeland Security director of fire service named new Easton fire chief bi13700810 Kevin P. Partridge, director of Homeland Security for the Department of Fire Service, has accepted the job of becoming Easton?s next fire chief, Town Administrator David Colton announced Wednesday, Dec. 28

In Boost for Clean Energy & Massachusetts, Court Upholds Cape Wind Contract w bi13700810 In a major legal victory today for Cape Wind, the Supreme Judicial Court two decisions unanimously upheld the long term Power Purchase Agreement between Cape..

UMD police win accreditation bi13700810 DARTMOUTH ? The UMass Dartmouth Police Department has won accreditation from the Police Accreditation Commission, the university announced

Patrick makes $15 million cut to MassDOT for FY2013 bi13700810 The Department of Transportation facing a $15 million budget cut, according to Gov. Deval Patrick?s budget recommendation for the fiscal year 2013. The budget recommendation proposed a total budget of $32.3 billion for 2013, according to Patrick?s statement. The FY2013 budget a 2.98 percent increase from 2012?s budget, means an []..

MBTA Public Hearing Schedule bi13700810 The Department of Transportation (MassDOT) recently released fare increase and service reduction proposals for the Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) aimed at closing a pr..

Meeting Weymouth about Fore River Bridge plan bi13700810 The Department of Transportation host the meeting on Thursday, February 9, to gather comments and provide details about the plan for a replacement bridge connecting Washington Street Quincy to Bridge Street Weymouth. The road also known as Route 3A

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