department of transportation

Energy

New fuel efficiency standard aims to halve US oil use within 20 years: DOT

Auto makers are being told to double fuel efficiency and halve pollution levels in the measures announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)…

Rochester wants to fill in this section of the moat-like Inner Loop. The mayor thinks a final design will up the odds of landing federal funding.

Money

Rochester doubling down on Inner Loop plans

Zack Seward

This is a how the city of Rochester describes its Inner Loop:The above is from a failed 2009 application [PDF] for $22.5 million in federal transportation…

Former Somalia Prime Minister Mohamed Mohamed stands in the lobby of his past and current employer, the New York Department of Transportation.

Politics

Why is Somalia's former prime minister working in a Buffalo cubicle?

Daniel Robison, WBFO

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wned/local-wned-983248.mp3Last October, Mohamed Mohamed was working as a bureaucrat in a Buffalo…