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Roadbuilding
GOP wonât tackle transportation funding before trade deal
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) wants Congress to make the looming expiration of transportation funding a top priority, but some Republican Senators want to move the issue to the wayside until a trade deal is secured. Reid threatened on Monday to block the legislation to give President Barack Obama the authority to fast-track international [âŚ]
May 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Three highway funding bills fail within one week in the Colorado Legislature
Potential funding for Colorado roads went three up and three down in the Legislature this week. The failure of all three bills leaves the stateâs roads without any extra help from legislators next year, the Colorado Business Journal reported. The funding failures began Monday as the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted Senate [âŚ]
May 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Missouri DOT cuts planned highway, bridge projects by 30% over next 5 years
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has released for public review its draft Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) for fiscal years 2016-2020. The plan outlines state and regional transportation projects planned during the period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2020. Due to the scheduled drop in MoDOTâs construction budget, from $596 million in [âŚ]
May 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Budget resolution calls for large reduction in transportation funding
The Senate and House of Representatives passed a joint budget resolution on Tuesday that calls for massive cuts in transportation funding. The budget resolution proposes a 22-percent decrease in transportation funding, according to the National Journal. But the joint resolution is not set in stone and isnât yet law. It sets the goals Congress will try to [âŚ]
May 7, 2015
Roadbuilding
GOPâs Fischer: Short-term highway funding fix is âvery likelyâ
The deadline for Congress to act on transportation funding is looming closer each day, but a Republican senator eased some concerns Tuesday. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb) said at the start of a Senate hearing on the matter that she thought that an extension of federal road funding is âhighly likely.â The current Highway Trust Fund [âŚ]
May 6, 2015
Roadbuilding
Bipartisan Senate bill would offer a tax credit for transportation projects
A Republican and a Democratic crossed party lines to propose a bill Monday that would provide a tax credit for road projects. The Hill reports Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and John Hoeven (R-North Dakota) proposed the âMove America Act of 2015â as Congress rolls closer to the May 31 deadline to extend transportation funding as the Highway [âŚ]
May 5, 2015
Roadbuilding
Gov. Hutchinson creates Arkansas working group to develop highway funding system
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson used his executive order powers to create a working group on highway funding to develop recommendations to âcreate a more reliable, modern, and effective system of highway funding,â The 20-member group, dubbed the âGovernorâs Working Group on Highway Funding,â with individuals to be named no later than the first week of June, [âŚ]
May 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
Ryan: $10 billion stopgap in the works as a âPlan Bâ for Highway Trust Fund
Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) says a $10 billion stopgap measure is being planned to provide temporary transportation project funding for the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the remainder of 2015, if permanent funding isnât passed prior to the current May 31 deadline. According to a report from The Hill, working with Ryan on the patch are [âŚ]
May 1, 2015
Roadbuilding
Poll shows most voters would support gas tax hike for roadwork
Well more than two-thirds of voters would be willing to more at the pump if it meant the money was going to pay for road construction, according to a poll from the Mineta Transportation Institute. About 71 percent of the voters polled said they would support at 10-cent gas hike if the money were spent on [âŚ]
May 1, 2015
Roadbuilding
New stopgap House bill would cut transportation funding by $1 billion
The House Appropriations Committee introduced a new bill on Tuesday to fund the Transportation Department and provide funding to the soon-to-be expiring Highway Trust Fund for fiscal year 2016, according to The Hill. The $55.3 billion bill would provide $40.3 billion to the Highway Trust Fund Act, which is set to expire by the end of [âŚ]
April 30, 2015
Roadbuilding
Minnesota gas tax would increase 16 cents a gallon under Senate bill
The Minnesota Senate has approved a bill that would increase the stateâs gas tax by 16 cents per gallon and raise vehicle registration fees to provide an estimated $11 billion for transportation project funding by 2025, according to a report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The bill began as House Bill HF4, was approved by [âŚ]
April 29, 2015
Roadbuilding
Transportation chief Foxx expects Congress to pass another highway stopgap despite urgent infrastructure needs
During a visit to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to see next-gernation transportation technology the school is working on, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx remarked on all the progress the sector has seen in recent years, itâs obvious potential moving forward and how all of it is at risk due to continued inaction from Congress [âŚ]
April 27, 2015
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