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Photographer documents the art of American highway interchanges
Photographer Peter Andrew has travelled the globe taking aerial pictures of the highway interchanges transporting people all over the world, and the resulting photo essay was recently featured by Politico Magazine. The photographs show the interweaving art that infrastructure can create on the natural environment—from the grey highway standing out in the orange desert of Phoenix to the intricate […]
July 24, 2015
Roadbuilding
What lawmakers are saying about highway funding
On Friday, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx reminded state departments of transportation that the Highway Trust Fund’s “situation remains dire.” He noted in a letter to state DOT directors that the HTF is projected to run out of money at the end of August — one month before the current highway bill, MAP-21, expires — and […]
June 23, 2014
Roadbuilding
Rep. Webster introduces bill aimed at improving TIFIA program
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) has introduced a bill that aims to improve the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program, Politico reports. The bill, dubbed the TIFIA2.0 Act, would change the way projects are selected for TIFIA loans by looking at how each project would affect taxpayers. The bill also includes language that would […]
June 23, 2014
Roadbuilding
THUD bill heads to full Senate for final vote; Senate committees talk highway funding
Highway funding is a hot topic in the Senate this week as the Appropriations Committee moves the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) bill to the full Senate floor, the Commerce Committee evaluates the House’s plan to use U.S. Postal Service savings for transportation revenue and the Finance Committee seeks funding for highway and […]
June 5, 2014
Roadbuilding
WRRDA cloud and other puns
So Congress has passed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). What now? Well, now we wait for President Obama to sign the bill. But Politico writer Adam Snider has a couple of other ideas on how to fill that waiting period. Snider briefly brought back #WRRDApuns (initiated last year, shortly after the bill […]
May 30, 2014
Roadbuilding
House could consider bill to bring back 330 NHTSA employees
The House may consider a bill next week that would bring back about 330 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) employees who were furloughed last week when the federal government shutdown began. The shutdown suspended several operations within the U.S. Department of Transportation, including NHTSA activities involving defect information distribution. Representative Lee Terry (R-Neb.) said […]
October 10, 2013
Roadbuilding
NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman to speak at Senate Commerce Committee shutdown hearing
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman will speak Friday at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the impacts of the government shutdown. The shutdown resulted in 18,481 furloughs in the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as the suspension of most programs not safety-related, the cessation of most DOT web […]
October 10, 2013
Roadbuilding
DOT to remain operational if government shuts down
The Senate is set to vote Friday on a resolution that could halt a federal government shutdown, according to a report from Politico, but the operation of the U.S. Department of Transportation would not be in jeopardy either way. Though a government shutdown would likely affect the DOT, Politico reported Wednesday in its Morning Transportation newsletter that a […]
September 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
RoadWorks
There has been no “bump” yet from the new surface transportation legislation, MAP 21, says one expert.
October 9, 2012
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