Tag: Infrastructure: Page 30

Roadbuilding

ARTBA, APTA aim Highway Trust Fund ad campaign at legislative leaders

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) are running 30-second radio ad spots aimed at legislative leaders urging them to “stop playing games with the federal transportation funding and find a permanent solution for the federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF).” The associations say the ads are running […]

May 11, 2015

Construction Equipment

POLL: Diesel? Hydrogen? Electricity? What will fuel future highways?

With road-legal self-driving trucks and an economically-feasible way to harness solar energy and go off the power grid being a part of our present and no longer possibilities of a far-off future, we got to thinking: what’s the fuel of the future going to be? Electricity sure seems to be making a pretty strong case with Tesla […]

May 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

GOP won’t 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 […]

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 state’s 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 […]

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 MoDOT’s construction budget, from $596 million in […]

May 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

White House releases infrastructure planning and design guide

The White House has made available the “Federal Resource Guide for Infrastructure Planning and Design” as part of President Obama’s Build America Investment Initiative launched last July. The guide was released May 5, the same day the White House held a roundtable with infrastructure experts in partnership with the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. The meeting’s purpose […]

May 7, 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 isn’t yet law. It sets the goals Congress will try to […]

May 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

E-Z Drill launches new parapet wall drill; slab-rider assists in 50,000-hole job at Atlanta airport runway project

E-Z Drill has introduced a new 3-parapet wall drill that uses new technology. The pneumatic 210 3-parapet wall drill provides continuous operations for drilling vertical holes for projects like securing temporary protective walls and temporary traffic barriers. According to E-Z Drill, the new product drills up to 2.5 inches in diameter and as deep as […]

May 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

GOP’s Fischer: Short-term highway funding fix is ‘very likely’

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 “highly likely.” The current Highway Trust Fund […]

May 6, 2015

Roadbuilding

Texas approves $168 million in Proposition 1 road projects

The Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) has approved roughly $168 million for 23 Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) road projects as part of the state’s Proposition 1 funding program. Last year Texas voters approved Proposition 1, a program that has $1.74 billion available for transportation projects in 2015. In late March, the TTC approved nine projects […]

May 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

Michigan voters reject sales tax increase for road improvements (UPDATED)

Michigan voters overwhelmingly rejected Tuesday a constitutional amendment that would have raised the state’s sales tax and increased gas prices to improve roadways. Proposal 1 was voted down 80-20, as just 351,000 residents voted in favor against 1.4 million voting no with just 20 percent turnout according to the Detroit Free Press. The Lansing State Journal reports Proposal […]

May 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

Missouri officials call for a raise in the state gas tax

The Missouri Senate passed a bill Thursday to raise the state’s gas tax 1.5 cents a gallon in order to raise money to fix the declining infrastructure. According to a report from the Kansas City Star, an earlier proposal to raise the tax by two cents had stalled. State and local officials gathered at the Broadway Bridge […]

May 5, 2015