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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

Safety

Congress clears surface transportation extension

One day after the House passed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011 by a final vote of 421 to 4, the Senate approved by voice vote March 3 vital legislation to extend highway, transit, and highway safety programs through the end of September, clearing the measure for signature by President Barack Obama.

March 3, 2011

Roadbuilding

House approves 7-month extension of SAFETEA-LU

The House of Representatives voted 421-4 on March 2 to extend until Sept. 30 federal highway and transit programs that are slated to expire on March 4. The bill — the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011, or H.R. 662 — will now go to the Senate. The current federal surface transportation legislation, the Safe, […]

March 3, 2011

Business

House approves 7-month extension of SAFETEA-LU

The House of Representatives voted 421-4 on March 2 to extend until Sept. 30 federal highway and transit programs that are slated to expire on March 4. The bill — the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011, or H.R. 662 — will now go to the Senate.

March 3, 2011

Roadbuilding

APWA on reauthorization: ‘We need to take aggressive steps to eliminate red tape’

American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.,American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area, and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Los Angeles, to draw attention to the need to reform and streamline the process for implementing federal-aid transportation projects.

March 2, 2011

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APWA on reauthorization: ‘We need to take aggressive steps to eliminate red tape’

American Public Works Association (APWA) leaders recently attended Congressional field hearings and listening sessions in support of accelerating the delivery of federal-aid transportation projects. APWA transportation leaders were present at sessions in the Chicago metro area, Memphis metro area,  and Vancouver, Washington, and also provided key testimony for the joint House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee […]

March 2, 2011

Roadbuilding

Mendez, Mica: ‘We’ll have a surface transportation bill by August recess’

by John Latta, Better Roads Editor-in-Chief ORLANDO–1st International Transportation Construction Management Conference Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) head Victor Mendez had at least positive notions today at the 1st International Transportation Construction Management Conference that is loaded with intense technical presentations. One: Mendez and House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Chairman John Mica appear to be […]

February 8, 2011

Roadbuilding

Financial District

The rules of the transportation funding game have changed in Washington.

February 1, 2011

Roadbuilding

Financial District

The rules of the transportation funding game have changed in Washington.

February 1, 2011

Roadbuilding

It’s this simple. Good roads cost us less.

Here is a very simple observation made by a newspaperman after the release of a new report. He points out that it costs us more to have bad roads than to keep good ones in good shape. Pennsylvanians are spending more to have lousy roads and bridges than it would cost to keep them in […]

November 30, 2010

Roadbuilding

Bye Jim; Hi John

I’m not surprised John Mica will become chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, but like most of you I am surprised that Jim Oberstar will not even be in the House. The turnaround adds more uncertainty to the existing uncertainty about reauthorization. Mica as ranking member of the committee and Oberstar as chairman […]

November 3, 2010

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

What is vitally needed from our politicians is clear – give us an adequately-funded six-year surface transportation act, now.

November 1, 2010