Transportation Committee

Searching for critical answers, and holding those who have them accountable.

The Legislature's Transportation Committee is calling for "a public examination of management, notice and record-keeping issues."

After a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona Sunday, the House chairman of the Transportation Committee Tuesday asked for bills regulating the emerging technology to circle back to committee.

Rep. William Straus, who serves as the House Co-Chair of the State Transportation Committee, backed Governor Baker's assertion that SouthCoast Rail is imminent, with three trains leaving New Bedford each morning for Boston on the existing Middleboro route.

A bill that would prohibit all use of hand-held cellphones by motorists in Massachusetts has moved forward on Beacon Hill. The measure has been endorsed by the Legislature's transportation committee and was given preliminary approval in the House on Wednesday without debate...

Despite the defeat of the state's gas tax indexing, SouthCoast Rail could still live on.

The Co-Chairman of the Legislature's Transportation Committee says he expects contracts will be awarded for work connected to the Southcoast Rail Project. State Rep. William Straus of Mattapoisett says among those contracts will likely be one for a new bridge over Route 18 in New Bedford and others...

The Legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation has given its approval to a $12-billion transportation bond package, which includes $2 billion for the permitting and construction of Southcoast Rail. The spending plan now heads to the House where debate is expected to begin next week. ...