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		<title>If you only have hot dog money in your pocket maybe you just buy a hot dog&#8230;but which hot dog?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/06/02/if-you-only-have-hot-dog-money-in-your-pocket-maybe-you-just-buy-a-hot-dog-but-which-hot-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/06/02/if-you-only-have-hot-dog-money-in-your-pocket-maybe-you-just-buy-a-hot-dog-but-which-hot-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post about the surface transportation reauthorization bill—TEA for short—ended with a bit of wait-and-see optimism.  That was then.  Here is a bit of face-facts pessimism to balance it out.  It&#8217;s the kind of yin yang see-sawing that this town sets the mind to doing.  Spend more than a few minutes thinking that things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=935&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rush/No-Rush to Replace SAFETEA-LU</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/05/26/the-rushno-rush-to-replace-safetea-lu/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/05/26/the-rushno-rush-to-replace-safetea-lu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that Congress and the Administration are proud of SAFETEA-LU. That&#8217;s the &#8220;bridge-to-nowhere&#8221;, 6000+ earmark, strangely named measure that was signed into law in 2005 and immediately trashed on the front page of Parade (yes, Parade!), on editorial pages of all stripes, and by interested interest groups. Freight stakeholders were grossly disappointed by the final [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=928&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are We Doing?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/10/07/what-are-we-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada announced a waiver of its 25 percent import tariff on general cargo vessel, tankers, and ferries longer than 129 meters.  The decision will save shipowners $25 million per year over the next decade. &#8220;This duty relief will accelerate the renewal of the Canadian marine fleet across the country and will help replace aging vessels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=750&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising the U.S.-Flag</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/09/07/raising-the-u-s-flag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Highway]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lead on the June 21st American Shipper story caught the eye.  The chair of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation “says government programs aimed at helping the U.S.-flag fleet ply foreign trades have been a failure.” “We have frankly struggled to find the policy that would truly improve and strengthen the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=703&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Opportunity, Not Just An Optimist&#8217;s Musing</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/07/06/an-opportunity-not-just-an-optimists-musing/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/07/06/an-opportunity-not-just-an-optimists-musing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine Highway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t pass up this tease question in an emailed promotion for a conference (in Marseille, if anyone has a spare ticket on the QM2 to offer a humble blogger). Is Climate Change a challenge or an excellent incentive to facilitate the renaissance of the shipping and maritime industries? Okay, I&#8217;ll bite.  My answer is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=683&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Friend and Partner, Mr. Truck</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/05/12/our-friend-and-partner-mr-truck/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/05/12/our-friend-and-partner-mr-truck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who thinks there are too many rigs on the roads, raise your hand.  If today you used something that arrived on a truck, raise your other hand. You can put both hands down. Bill Graves, President of the ATA, has taken umbrage at some of the recent rhetoric in Washington.  Not much love is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=667&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Things to Hear &#8212; Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/05/01/good-things-to-hear-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/05/01/good-things-to-hear-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This except from the opening of  &#8220;A National Intermodal Shift&#8221; by W. Cassidy and J. Boyd of the Journal of Commerce, April 5, 2010: The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads. Key officials are increasingly making it clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=659&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What TIGER Tells Us</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/23/the-tiger-tells-us/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/23/the-tiger-tells-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Highway]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, not that Tiger. The eagerly awaited TIGER grants were announced last week.  An experiment in government.  Against their better judgment members of the House and Senate gave $1.5 billion to the Administration and left it to the discretion of USDOT program managers, modal administrators, the Secretary (and perhaps the White House, just in case) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=626&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toward Developing MTS Related Policy</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/15/toward-developing-mts-related-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/15/toward-developing-mts-related-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting the USDOT leadership in front of an audience has become a bit of a tradition each January.   Most of the brass, sans Secretary LaHood, appeared en panel at the recent TRB annual convention.  The policy and modal chiefs offered brief overviews as to what is on their plates.  Here are notes from two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=621&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Maritime Administrator</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/27/the-next-maritime-administrator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Matsuda &#8211;the President&#8217;s pick to serve as Maritime Administrator&#8211;is ready to serve. He returned to familiar turf this week when he appeared at his nomination hearing.  He worked for the same committee that will be voting on his nomination.  His work in the Senate had to do with railroads, ports, transit, trucking and aviation.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=617&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Opportunity in Obstacles</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/01/14/the-opportunity-in-obstacles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Kruse and colleagues at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)  completed a study that identifies obstacles to marine highway development.  It&#8217;s a good report.  At least I can say that the presentation I saw last evening outlined a lot of useful information.  The report itself is not yet available. I can&#8217;t wait to read about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=600&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rail + Road + Water = Surface Freight System</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/01/rail-road-water-surface-freight-system/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/01/rail-road-water-surface-freight-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a study in November comparing truck and rail fuel efficiency.  It&#8217;s an update of a 1991 FRA report. The new study identifies rail as more efficient.  No surprise there. The report, Comparative Evaluation of Rail and Truck Fuel Efficiency on Competitive Corridors (November 19, 2009), should be useful to Secretary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=544&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision Ingredients (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/28/vision-ingredients-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of George H. W. Bush can conger up a few unfortunate (for him), lasting images. For me it&#8217;s the former president&#8217;s food judgments (pork rinds good/broccoli bad), his unfamiliarity with the price of  milk, and Dana Carvey&#8217;s exaggerated but dead-on impersonation.  Then there was, &#8220;oh, the vision thing.&#8221;  It sounded like he thought it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=534&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Trailblazing to a Miami Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/17/california-trailblazing-to-a-miaimi-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When earth was turned in 1997 for the Alameda Corridor project in the San Pedro Bay port region more than one kind of ground breaking was occurring.  The Port of Miami is a beneficiary. In freight transportation policy circles the Alameda Corridor project one day may be legend.  The ports of Los Angeles and Long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=506&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ports on the Secretary&#8217;s To-Do List</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/08/ports-on-the-secretarys-to-do-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The DOT Secretary&#8217;s blog&#8211;Fast Lane&#8211;noted this past Thursday that &#8220;port managers have a difficult dual mission to fulfill-–providing the critical interface between water and surface transportation, while handling both commercial and military cargo.&#8221;  The prior day he met with the National Port Readiness Network, including some port representatives. Secretary Ray LaHood acknowledged in his blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=500&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting an ! on Intermodal</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/06/putting-an-on-intermodal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been talked about for a while but the talking is over.  J.B. Hunt Transport Services did a major deal with Norfolk Southern Railway.  According to the Journal of Commerce (November 6, 2009): Hunt said the accord “will further establish the parties as the leading providers of transcontinental and local intermodal service in the eastern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=491&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HMT on the Marine Highway: Once is Too Much</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/10/18/hmt-on-the-marine-highway-once-is-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/10/18/hmt-on-the-marine-highway-once-is-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) discourages new customers for the marine highway.  It may not be the only number in the logistics calculus but it tops most to-fix lists.  Why? The truck that could easily roll onto Gregg Ward&#8217;s Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry instead takes a long detour in the Canada-to-U.S. move. A shipper or trucker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=435&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Again, Solon</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/10/05/say-it-again-solon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things are worth repeating. Especially on the subject of putting our waterways and waterfront to greater productive use. Here&#8217;s a for-instance &#8212; excerpts from a recent statement by Rep. John Mica (R-FL), the ranking minority member of the House Transportation &#38; Infrastructure Committee, as submitted to the America&#8217;s Marine Highways website. &#8220;As construction costs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=381&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rendell Bets on a Delay</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/09/25/rendell-bets-on-a-delay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Ed Rendell, a leading figure in the call for infrastructure reform and investment in the U.S., said that any surface transportation bill that Congress could pass this year would be a “very mediocre bill in terms of the needs of the country.&#8221; In a story yesterday by Bob Edmonson of the Journal of Commerce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=357&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Million Reasons</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/09/21/a-million-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Funding is the key,&#8221; said former DOT Secretary Norman Mineta.  He should know. Mineta spoke to an estimable eighty invited to UVA&#8217;s Miller Center of Public Affairs to discuss how significant reform in surface transportation policy might be achieved.  He told them that funding is the prerequisite for the kind of major investment measure that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=309&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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