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It’s high time we came up with a highway funding solution

It’s no surprise that the Highway Trust Fund, or HTF, is almost insolvent again. We’ve known the time is coming. Last year, we managed to keep it going with the transfer of about $8 billion from the General Trust Fund. But now we’re in trouble again. We’ve been talking about it and writing about […]

January 6, 2010

Better Roads 2010 Forecast Survey

Contractors and agencies show no signs of surrendering to economic pressures that in turn show little sign of easing their assault.

January 1, 2010

Step away from the computer and pick up the phone TODAY

Just pick up the phone. You know you can do it. Step away from the computer and do things what has become “the old-fashioned way.” Use your voice and make it heard today as part of the Transportation Construction Coalition’s (TCC) phone blitz to Congress. The TCC has organized a nationwide call-in TODAY, Dec. 10, to […]

December 10, 2009

FHWA chief offers some thoughts: Tell a better story

By John Latta, Better Roads Editor-in-Chief, Onsite at the American Concrete Pavement Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Maybe Victor Mendez, head of the Federal Highway Administration, reads my column. Or maybe it’s his own idea. Either way, he is urging contractors and other industry stakeholders to do something I have been pushing for some time […]

December 3, 2009

Lattatudes: Of Walter and John

In the early decades of last century, life in the American democracy began to get increasing modern and at the same time increasingly complicated. The news media’s role was changing and adapting. Walter Lippmann saw a world where the public could not keep up; there was too much information that could not be fully understood, […]

October 1, 2009

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