Transportation
May 19, 2015
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) spoke on the House floor urging Congress to assist our commuter railroads in implementing positive train control in order to prevent the kind of tragedies we saw on Amtrak last week.
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May 14, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Illinois’ only member of the House Appropriations Committee, fought to include critical infrastructure investments, transit safety protections, and housing programs in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) funding bill for 2016.
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Transportation
April 27, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) announced that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) green-lighted a study by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to reexamine the current metric used to determine acceptable aircraft noise pollution.
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Transportation
April 9, 2015
Quigley noted that investing in transportation infrastructure pays dividends. He said that 6 percent of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was passed in the “depths of the economic downturn” involved such infrastructure projects, but they generated two-thirds of the jobs the Act produced.
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March 23, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), led a bipartisan letter to the THUD Subcommittee with 10 members of the Illinois House delegation urging full funding for mass transit and passenger rail in next year’s THUD budget.
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Transportation
March 19, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), along with Rep. Dan Lipinski (IL-03) introduced the Reassuring Adequate Investment in Lifesaving Systems or the RAILS Act, which reauthorizes the Railroad Safety Technology Grants Program to provide critical funding for train control technologies, rail integrity inspection systems, paperless hazardous communication devices, and other new rail safety items.
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March 19, 2015
“As the nation’s rail hub, nowhere are investments in safety technology more crucial than in Chicago. Yet, commuter railroads like Metra lack the funding necessary to ensure new safety technologies, like positive train control, are implemented the right way,” Quigley said. “Reauthorizing the Rail Safety Technology Grant program will provide the critical funding and support needed for commuter railroads around the country to modernize their infrastructure and keep their passengers safe.”
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March 18, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley, member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), introduced the Transit Accessibility Innovation Act, along with original co-sponsors Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) and Congressmen Tim Ryan (OH-13), Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jim Langevin (RI-02).
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February 4, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley calls for a 21st century transportation bill.
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Transportation
January 16, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) took his “Mike on the Move” transportation initiative back to Chicago’s rails, highlighting a tangled web of tracks at the 75th Street Corridor that causes congestion and delays for Amtrak, Metra and freight alike.
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Appropriations