Tag: Highway Trust Fund: Page 40

Roadbuilding
Reauthorization and 85-yard field goals
It’s like everyone in Washington involved in trying to put a viable new surface transportation bill into action are playing the same silly game. Everyone knows its silly, but they keep on playing. Here’s an example from last week: A House transportation appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine the Federal Highway Administration’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget […]
April 5, 2011
Roadbuilding
RoadWorks
Insufficient highway infrastructure maintenance, an aspalt research conference, Caterpillar enters the heavy truck market and more industry news items are featured.
April 1, 2011
Tina Barbaccia
Roadbuilding
HTF problem? No problem, says LaHood
It appears that I have been mislead. The Highway Trust fund is doing just fine. It can pay for current and future projects. In fact it’s so okay that fears of another bailout maybe being required are completely unjustified. And I thought we had a problem with the HTF Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, here cited […]
March 11, 2011
Roadbuilding
Final Word
It’s the jobs, stupid By Kirk Landers One of those teaser heads on an Internet news site in January relayed the wisdom of our times in a few pithy words: “It’s About Employment, Stupid.” This play on the famous campaign manager’s admonition to then presidential candidate Bill Clinton led to a political column whose author […]
March 2, 2011
Kirk Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
Financial District
A vast amount of transportation funding sitting around doing nothing may be put back into action if two U.S. senators can clear some very big hurdles; and a Cornell professor calls for an attitude adjustment in transportation infrastructure thinking.
March 1, 2011
Earmarkes Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
Financial District
A vast amount of transportation funding sitting around doing nothing may be put back into action if two U.S. senators can clear some very big hurdles; and a Cornell professor calls for an attitude adjustment in transportation infrastructure thinking.
March 1, 2011
Earmarkes Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
Financial District
A vast amount of transportation funding sitting around doing nothing may be put back into action if two U.S. senators can clear some very big hurdles; and a Cornell professor calls for an attitude adjustment in transportation infrastructure thinking.
March 1, 2011
Earmarkes Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers
The Republican caucus unilaterally rescinded budgetary guarantees that user fees collected for the Highway Trust Fund would be invested in a timely manner and only for transportation improvements.
February 1, 2011
kirk.landers@att.net
Roadbuilding
Zen and the Art of Parachute Jumping
I wonder. If politicians, wearing government-issue parachutes,  jumped out of airplanes (or were pushed, remember they’re politicians) and decided not to deploy the chute to show their voting constituents how reluctant they are to waste taxpayer dollars (remember, they’re politicians) would they pull the rip-chord when the ground got dangerously close?  You bet your (fill […]
January 6, 2011
Roadbuilding
RoadWorks
Fuel tax hike opponents now have fewer places to hide, intelligent driverless vehicles, speed-related crashes and wildlife sightings are among the issues featured.
December 1, 2010
Two Cars Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
RoadWorks
Fuel tax hike opponents now have fewer places to hide, intelligent driverless vehicles, speed-related crashes and wildlife sightings are among the issues featured.
December 1, 2010
Two Cars Untitled 1
Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers
What little hope there is for the American transportation system rests with new House speaker John Boehner [R-Ohio].
December 1, 2010
kirk.landers@att.net
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