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Houses passes resolution supporting National Public Works Week

U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Res. 313, a resolution supporting National Public Works Week, May 17-23, 2009. Instituted as a public education campaign by the American Public Works Association (APWA) in 1960, National Public Works Week calls attention to the importance of public works in community life. “This year, the occasion celebrates renewal, revitalization […]

January 15, 2010

Why do highways have to be ugly?

In a recent post over at the Front Porch Republic blog a writer waxed poetic about his favorite stretch of roadway. And then he asked the question: “Why do so many of our roadways have to be so ugly? From the extensive comments that followed the post, I’d say he touched a nerve that engineers, DOT […]

January 15, 2010

Another Band-Aid: House passes $7 billion to shore up the Highway Trust Fund

Well, it’s not the ideal solution, but this Band-Aid will at least keep the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent. Just days before the HTF was going to run into the red, the House yesterday approved $7 billion to shore up the almost empty fund, according to a Reuters report in The Washington Post. This stop-gap […]

January 15, 2010

Stimulus funds its 6,000th project; LaHood lauds as as ‘major milestone’

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), a.k.a. the stimulus, has funded its 6,000th highway project mark with a $44.5 million project near Phoenix. The project will widen the route between State Route 303 and 99th Avenue, which serves an estimated 45,000 vehicles daily, from four lanes to six, according to the U.S. DOT. In addition, […]

January 15, 2010

CA transit, air quality projects receive $235 million

Public transit and air quality projects across California are receiving bond funds to upgrade transit service, purchase eco-friendly buses, modernize transit stations, build new park and ride facilities and for other transit-related purposes that will reduce emissions. 107 projects will receive $235.4 million from Proposition 1B, the 2006 transportation bond, which includes $3.6 billion to […]

January 15, 2010

Construction Equipment

Caltrans allocated $139 million for transportation, $2 million from stimulu

The California Transportation Commission allocated $139 million to improve the state’s transportation system and provide further support for the state’s economy. The allocations include $2 million in federal stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The remaining $137 million in allocations came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal […]

January 12, 2010

A Sweet Way to Fix Roads

What do soda pop, candy and roads have in common? The first two help create potholes in your teeth, and now they’ll help fix potholes in the road. How? No, your Snickers bar won’t be flattened to use instead of a hot mix or warm mix, but the cost of it will go […]

January 12, 2010

DOT recovery spending hits $3 billion but rail money still to come

Federal transportation construction programs spent $3.145 billion through Sept. 18 on highways, bridges and other repairs ranging from transit systems to airports to inland ports and railroads, according to a report in the Journal of Commerce online edition. For more information from the official Website on stimulus money spending, go to www.Recovery.org.

January 12, 2010

The construction industry says, ‘We’re not gonna take it!’

At Chicago’s Soldier Field Today (Home of the Chicago Bears football team) local business leaders, laborers and construction workers rallied in a caravan of construction equipment to urge the federal government to stop job loss and to move quickly on the reauthorization of SAFETEA-LU. A caravan of idle construction equipment including a motor grader, rough terrain […]

January 11, 2010

The good news: Transportation stimulus projects reach 10K; The bad news: We’re still without a highway bill and guaranteed funding

From ConstructionPundit’s sister blog, The Roadologist: The Department of Transportation has jumpstarted more than 10,000 transportation projects across the United States with stimulus dollars, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. As of the announcements, state agencies reported a total of 10,041 projects had been approved. “Just nine months […]

January 11, 2010

Your guide to the basics of transportation decisionmaking

How do government officials decide where to put a bus stop, road, or bridge and how transportation projects are planned? The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have created a guide to answer these and other transportation project-related questions. Here’s a downloadable PDF, A Guide to Transportation Decisionmaking, to explain how all […]

January 11, 2010

Missouri DOT, project partners win two awards for highway design, community outreach

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and Paseo Corridor Constructors (PCC) Interstate 29/35 Connections “kcICON” Project team has received two honors for its corridor aesthetic design and community outreach efforts. The kcICON Project’s corridor aesthetics package earned a “Design Un-built” award from the Prairie Gateway Chapter/American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The award submittal described […]

January 6, 2010

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