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Business

Drive Now, Pay Later.

Interesting, basic approach to the argument for borrowing to build/maintain/repair our transportation infrastructure in the New York Times. Written by a Cornell University economics professor, Robert H. Frank. Agree or disagree he makes a fairly basic argument. And clarity from any point of view in this debate is actually quite refreshing. May we regress to […]

June 5, 2012

Construction Equipment

TIFIA transportation project loan program under fire

Congress will begin reconciling Senate and House highway reauthorization bills this week that contain significantly increased funding for a loan program that’s criticized as providing credit for too many public-private toll projects. On May 8, conferees from both chambers will have start meetings to begin the compromise process between House and Senate proposals for a […]

May 8, 2012

Roadbuilding

TIFIA transportation project loan program under fire

Congress will begin reconciling reauthorization bills that contain significantly increased funding for a somewhat controversial loan program.

May 7, 2012

Roadbuilding

Shame

Last Friday reauthorization was extended for the ninth time, this time for 90 days. You know what I feel about it. So does Ezra Klein apparently. “On Friday, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Odds are you didn’t hear about it. There wasn’t a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, and […]

April 4, 2012

Roadbuilding

Civic Lessons

Watching the reauthorization wheels go round and round remains one of the most frustrating occupations in our industry. The Senate Bill creeps ahead after some extraneous amendments have been hurdled. The House Republicans are now looking at a heavily reworked bill, and one that seems to have as much support as the pre-worked bill. Instead […]

March 1, 2012

Roadbuilding

Let ‘em have it this week!

I’m repeating myself, I know, but I want to urge as many of you as possible to take advantage of this week’s Congressional recess. Members are back in their districts and this is an election year. Put a little heat on them, a little pressure. Or, preferably, a lot. Congress has dithered and dithered when […]

February 20, 2012

Roadbuilding

We get to it when we get to it

I think maybe Congress is using  one of Salvador Dali’s clocks to figure out when we might be a reauthorization bill. Then again, I suppose progress wasn’t supposed to be predictably smooth. Take progress on a new surface transportation bill. Congress is back and this legislation is expected to take a spot close to center […]

January 18, 2012

Home

Senate approves transportation extension: FAA and Highway Extensions Act

The United States Senate on Sept. 15 passed legislation to extend funding for the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for four and six months, respectively. The measure passed with a 92-6 vote. H.R. 2887, the FAA and Highway Extensions Act, was introduced by the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation […]

September 26, 2011

Safety

House passes highway funding extension

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on an extension of transportation appropriations this week after House members passed the measure Sept. 13. The voice bill vote approved H.R. 2887, which would include funding through March 31 for the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration and other federal highway, transit and safety programs. It would extend […]

September 15, 2011

Roadbuilding

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 […]

September 14, 2011

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Waving this document over my head, figuratively anyway, may just cause enough fuss, enough debate and arguing, points and counterpoints, to light some fires.

September 7, 2011

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Waving this document over my head, figuratively anyway, may just cause enough fuss, enough debate and arguing, points and counterpoints, to light some fires.

September 7, 2011