John LattaRoadbuildingThe cost of gasoline: Them and usNow this is a fun table to play with. I’m all for this sort of interactivity if I know how to work it and it is not built solely for software developers, MBAs and chess champions. Bloomberg looks at countries around the world and tell us in data from each country (a) the average price […]June 25, 2013RoadbuildingCorporate road sponsorships coming to New JerseyIt had to happen. Funding for our transportation infrastructure is inadequate, to use a nice word, and states and any other agencies responsible for our bridges and roads are going to have to continue to find and mine almost any source they can think of. So New Jersey is set to allow corporate sponsorships of […]June 24, 2013RoadbuildingFocus on the city center or the neighborhoods?Here’s a question about Washington D.C. road and transportation planning that I’m thinking is the sort of macro question facing a lot of big cities. “Should the design of major roads and our big transit projects favor moving large numbers of people in and out of downtown? Or should DC focus on making streets feel […]June 21, 2013RoadbuildingBoeuf en Croute a la Amtrak, Comrade?Someone hold John Mica back. The Florida Republican representative and former chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is still knee-deep in transportation issues on The Hill, but none wind him up as much as Amtrak. And Mica can be so much fun when he gets rolling. My favorite–oh, so many to choose from–is […]June 20, 2013RoadbuildingIs the car the cigarette of the future?How would you feel if you were shunned in the not-too-distant future for doing something we do every day now and don’t think twice about? What if playing golf, going to a restaurant or mowing your lawn meant you would be treated as a pariah? One man says it could happen if you drive a […]June 19, 2013RoadbuildingHOTless in SeattleIt appears some road planners in the Seattle area assumed that drivers would be willing to pay their way out of congestion. It appears that this is not so. A pilot project was designed for high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes at State Route 167 in metro Seattle. But the use projections were way, way off. […]June 18, 2013RoadbuildingTaking it to the Streets of MiamiIt’s more wristwatches than sausages I think. An ongoing dispute over whether the state of Florida or the city “owns” streets in Miami is a fascinating glimpse into the workings of a state DOT and a city government when it comes to responsibility and jurisdiction of roads. I like wristwatches. I have drawers and a […]June 13, 2013RoadbuildingPrivate money: A funding wildcard in 2014It’s hard to see a time in the foreseeable future where we will have a solid supply of funding from any single source to fill the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). That’s an asterisked statement of course because an increased gas tax could do it. But that won’t happen in the foreseeable future. And neither will […]June 13, 2013RoadbuildingThe Family Gasoline Bill: Scarcity trumps efficiencyAmericans spend a relatively small part of their income on gasoline. But it’s unlikely to get any smaller. It was just a bit less than 4 percent of income before taxes in 2012, the highest in nearly three decades. Consider that the percentage has remained fairly near this number for some years, and that the […]June 12, 2013RoadbuildingGas Tax 101: 1932 – 2013We talk gas tax all day long in this industry. We hear arguments that it should increase (I make many of them) or that it should remain where it is (largely because it would be political suicide to raise it). But this Forbes piece is a short, succinct summary of the Federal gas tax from […]June 11, 2013Previous PagePage 4 of 43Next PageTop StoriesGraders/ScrapersMotor Graders Getting Easier to Operate, More VersatileSee the latest from Caterpillar, John Deere and Komatsu and what contractors should look for when shopping.ExcavatorsVideo: Watch Komatsu’s First High-Reach Demolition Excavator for U.S.PickupsRam Rolls Out 5 New Off-Road 1500 and 2500 PickupsCompact ExcavatorsVideo: A Closer Look at Kato's HD308 US-7 Compact ExcavatorFeatured SponsorSelecting the Correct Construction Tire Solution