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$7 billion in federal highway funds obligated so far in...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 15, 2013

Federal funds obligated by federal, state and local departments of transportation (DOTs) have increased $7 billion during the current fiscal ...

CBO: Highway Trust Fund should fulfill obligations...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 11, 2013

According to the latest forecast from the Congressional Budget Office, the Highway Trust Fund will have insufficient revenues by the ...

States begin new projects rather than repairing,...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 04, 2013

The main reason the U.S. can't afford to maintain its existing roads and bridges? States keep building new ones, reports ...

Controversial mileage-based tax has potential to...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Feb 01, 2013

Despite its potential to increase revenues, the establishment of a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax is not likely to happen ...

Recession results in evolving construction markets

Posted by Equipment World Staff on Feb 01, 2013

Prolonged periods of economic difficulty add velocity to evolutionary changes in many industries. The Great Recession and the long shadow ...

$1 trillion spending gap for U.S. infrastructure holds...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 17, 2013

"Infrastructure is the most important thing you never think about," Jim Hoecker, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

Video: East span of the Bay Bridge is born

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 09, 2013

Over the past three-and-a-half years, workers have been busy constructing the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. ...

U.S. needs new bridges but states lack funding

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 03, 2013

The average age of the 600,000 bridges in the United States is 43 years old, according to a new report ...

Japanese tunnel collapses, kills 9

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Dec 04, 2012

Sasago Tunnel, Japan, Credit: Kyodo News Aging bolts are a possible culprit behind the collapse of concrete ceiling slabs that ...

Chicago-St. Louis high-speed rail construction could...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Nov 21, 2012

A high-speed rail project that will connect Chicago, Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri has been cleared for construction, according to ...

New York Times weighs in on the gas tax

Posted by Tom Jackson on Aug 21, 2012

This is an old argument for most of us in the construction business, but it was heartening to read a ...

Weekend reading: August 10, 2012

Posted by Tom Jackson on Aug 10, 2012

What's the one commodity you'd be willing to fight and die for? In Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies wild gangs roam ...

VIDEO: Dump truck spins a massive burnout, smoke show

It's Friday and we don't know about you but we're ...

Chevrolet unveils new top-of-the-line 2014 Silverado High...

Replacing the LTZ as the top-of-the-line model in Chevrolet's Silverado ...

Can pickups and heavy trucks in the U.S. make Volkswagen the...

Over at our sister site Overdrive, editor Jack Roberts has ...

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