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Re-extensioning. Again.
So we have another extension of surface transportation authorization. Now SAFETEA-LU, which expired in 2009, effectively runs through March 31. I really tried to find something in this one, as in the previous seven, which indicated progress, some movement or trend towards a new bill. We do have both the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee [ā€¦]
September 14, 2011
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AASHTO to President Obama: ā€˜State DOTs are Ready to work nowā€™
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) supports President Barack Obamaā€™s message to Congress in his address on Sept. 8 that calls for a $50 billion investment in transportation infrastructure to boost the nationā€™s struggling economy. AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley said that states, counties, and cities demonstrated the last time Congress [ā€¦]
September 14, 2011
Roadbuilding
AASHTO applauds proposed Congressional action on the transportation extension legislation
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) supports the efforts by both houses of Congress to advance a proposal to extend the current surface transportation program as well as the aviation programs at current funding levels. ā€œThis extension will allow state DOTs to continue to deliver jobs for our nationā€™s economy while [ā€¦]
September 13, 2011
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ā€˜U.S. needs long-term transportation investment, not short-term stimulusā€™
Political dysfunction and intractable views on government spending of any kind are two major obstacles on Capitol Hill impeding passage of a long-term, robust federal highway and transit reauthorization bill, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President Pete Ruane said Sept. 6 at the Mobility 21 transportation conference in Los Angeles. Ruane observed the [ā€¦]
September 7, 2011
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ā€˜U.S. needs long-term transportation investment, not short-term stimulusā€™
'U.S. needs long-term transportation investment, not short-term stimulus'
September 7, 2011
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Transportation officials to Congress: Thousands of jobs and countless transportation projects in jeopardy
Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). To call attention to the actions that must be taken by Congress to keep federal highway and transit programs operating and thousands of American workers on [ā€¦]
August 22, 2011
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Transportation officials to Congress: Thousands of jobs and countless transportation projects in jeopardy
Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).,Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
August 22, 2011
Roadbuilding
Wanna hear something scary?
According to Politicoā€™s Ben Smith there is a little known upcoming event that is probably nothing to worry about. Most of the gas tax is set to expire on September 30. Actually all but 4.3 cents of the 18.4 cents is on the block. No itā€™s not part of reauthorization (the latest extension of that [ā€¦]
August 17, 2011
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Congress, send me that bill!
I keep wondering if there is a tipping point for our transportation infrastructure, a point where the entire game changes. Somewhat in the way a breached levee in New Orleans changed the work being done to defend the city against Hurricane Katrina. What was being done was superseded by a new, sudden and powerful reality. [ā€¦]
August 12, 2011
Roadbuilding
Slow Train Cominā€™
ā€œWe have workers who need jobs and a country that needs rebuilding; an infrastructure bank would help us put them together.ā€ Ā President Obama, this week. Itā€™s not exactly deck chairs on the Titanic; itā€™s more like taking the slow train to a destination we have to get to when a faster one is available. There [ā€¦]
August 3, 2011
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Sens. Boxer and Inhofe release outline for bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member, on July 19 released an outline for Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), a bipartisan proposal to reauthorize the nationā€™s transportation programs for two years. (Click here for an archived Webcast of [ā€¦]
July 26, 2011
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ARTBA pres & CEO: Include ā€˜Infrastructure Bankā€™ type initiatives in new highway bill
Federal financial instruments and initiatives such as a proposed national ā€œInfrastructure Bankā€ designed to attract private investment into transportation infrastructure projects should be included in the new highway/transit bill, Pete Ruane, president of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), told the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee July 20. He cautioned lawmakers, however, [ā€¦]
July 20, 2011
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