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Bridge Collapses in Minnesota II

This is one of those stories I have to be careful with. The basic story is that a milling machine toppled partly into water when a section of the river bridge it was working on collapsed.It is not the I-35W story again, and it is not blogged here as a sensational story. If anything the […]

October 20, 2010

Congestion fighting then; and now.

You knew these stories were coming. There have surely been others already that I have missed. They address the question: what do we do now, now that there isn’t enough money for those grand congestion fighting highway expansion plans we had? This time its Atlanta looking for ways to scale back a massive expansion plan […]

October 11, 2010

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

Yet more states are thinking outside the public funding box

Wanna buy a road? Two more states are reacting to the inevitable. They must have money for roads but the usual sources are inadequate. Privatization and tolling are coming up again and again as the default option. As Congress leads the way in stalling (if you can do that) by keeping reauthorization hidden away at […]

September 20, 2010

We’ll drive further per gallon – but on what?

So you know this story by heart. It goes like this: The Highway Trust Fund relies primarily on income from fuel taxes. Its hopelessly short of funds because the gas tax is too low and politicians won’t raise it. And of course the fuel tax is becoming less and less efficient as we drive more […]

September 8, 2010

We’re moving towards more tolling

Itr’s possible that the (voting) public is begining to see what happens when there is too little money for highways and bridges. But the process moves like molasses in winter. Last week the Wall Street Journal picked up the movement in some states to pro-actively turn badly deteriorating asphalt and concrete roads back to gravel roads. […]

August 4, 2010

Five-year highway construction program approved

Missouri’s five-year highway construction program was approved July 1, 2010, by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, but it’s only one-third the size of the 2009 program. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) says the funding is barely enough in funds to take care of the existing system. Missourians will see very few new projects […]

July 13, 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

TRIP report released tomorrow on Arkansas surface transportation system

TRIP will release a new report that evaluates the current condition, use and funding of Arkansas’ surface transportation system at a news conference in Little Rock tomorrow at 10 a.m. CDT. The report, “Future Mobility in Arkansas: Meeting the State’s Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility,” analyzes road and bridge conditions, traffic congestion, economic development and […]

June 7, 2010

$3.54 billion capital transportation program proposed for New Jersey DOT, NJ Transit

The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced a proposed Transportation capital program for NJDOT and NJ TRANSIT in the amount of $3.54 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2010. The FY 11 spending plan includes a $200 million state-funded local aid component and approaches last year’s $3.6 billion program despite an enormously […]

May 27, 2010

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