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Upon further review — a Stimulus update

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has released a new report on the Recovery Act, arguing with numbers and project stories that the Stimulus is working and working well. According to AASHTO executive director John Horsley ,”These are big numbers. Billions of dollars being invested in transportation projects that are creating […]

September 29, 2010

California allocates to $897 million for transportation projects

The California Transportation Commission (CTC) allocated $897 million to 170 transportation projects statewide, including $157 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006, and $49 million from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), more commonly known as the stimulus. The remaining $691 million in allocations came from […]

July 7, 2010

TRIP: Show N.H. the money for failing bridges, roads

One-third of New Hampshire’ major roads are deteriorated, 32 percent of the state’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and more than half of the state’s roads are congested during peak travel times, but the state lacks adequate funding to make needed improvements to its surface transportation system, according to a news report from […]

June 21, 2010

TRIP: Show N.H. the money to fix failing bridges, roads

One-third of New Hampshire’ major roads are deteriorated, 32 percent of the state’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and more than half of the state’s roads are congested during peak travel times, but the state lacks adequate funding to make needed improvements to its surface transportation system, according to a news report from […]

June 18, 2010

ARTBA chief blasts inaction on highway, transit bill

If Congress and the President do not act later this year or in early 2011 on passage of a new, multi-year highway and transit authorization bill, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs could be lost and states could face at a 50-percent cut in federal funding, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO […]

June 7, 2010

California Transportation Commission allocates $668 million to 79 transportation projects

The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $668 million to 79 transportation projects statewide. The funding includes $152 million for nine projects from Proposition 1B, a $19.9 billion transportation bond championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) and approved by voters in 2006. The remaining $516 million in allocations came from assorted state and federal transportation […]

May 20, 2010

Caltrans awarded $2.7 million in stimulus job training grants

Caltrans today announced that the state has been awarded $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) job training grants for eight California workforce development centers. California received more than 20 percent of the national share of the grants awarded to 19 states and two territories. The grants, from the Federal Highway Administration’s “On […]

March 29, 2010

Biden announces 10,000 stimulus-funded transportation projects underway in all 50 states

Vice President Joe Biden today announced that 10,000 transportation projects are now under way in all 50 states and the District of Columbia thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. “the stimulus.” Projects are considered under way when a contractor has been hired, the project has received official notice to proceed, and […]

March 19, 2010

Missouri DOT cancels February bid opening because of funding uncertainty

Fantastic. Congress continues to drag its heels on reauthorization of a surface transportation bill, and now our fears are confirmed. The trickle-down effect has begun. It’s not news that it’s a problem that uncertain funding leads to project delays and cancellations. But the stimulus money had been masking –or maybe serving as a Band-Aid is […]

March 1, 2010

Biden announces states meet deadline for 100 percent of stimulus funds

States head into spring construction season with more than 12,000 Recovery Act projects funded, nearly 7,800 already underway CLERMONT, Fla. – At a RecoveryAct construction site outside Orlando today, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that every state and the District of Columbia met the March 2 Recovery Act deadline […]

March 1, 2010

TIGER award winners announced

Recipients of the $1.5 billion in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery awards from the federal government were announced Wednesday. Rail freight projects seemed to gather the top awards, but every state got a little slice of the pie.

February 25, 2010

Tennessee DOT obligates all — $572 million — highway stimulus funds

TDOT credits partnership with metropolitan planning organizations statewide NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Transportation has obligated 100% of the $572 million in Highway Infrastructure Investment funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act two weeks ahead of the March 1 deadline required under the Act. TDOT received approval of its last project […]

February 17, 2010

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