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Business
Senators to release long term highway bill on Monday, markup set for Thursday
U.S. senators from the Environment and Public Works and Transportation and Infrastructure committees have announced that they will release the text of their new highway bill on Monday with a markup of the bill coming Thursday. Chairman of the EPW committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) previously said sheĀ wanted to release the billās text this week,Ā but [ā¦]
May 9, 2014
Business
New Hampshire increases fuel taxes to fund road projects
The New Hampshire House last week passed a bill that would increase the stateās fuel taxes on gas and diesel by 4.2 cents per gallon,Ā theĀ Concord MonitorĀ reports. The bill is now headed to Gov. Maggie Hassan, who said she intends to sign it. āI look forward to signing this bipartisan legislation into law so we can [ā¦]
April 29, 2014
Business
Obama prepares to send $302 billion highway bill to Congress, but will it be enough?
President Barack Obama is preparing to present his proposed $302 billion, four-year transportation reauthorization bill to Congress. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on the DOTās Fast Lane blog that the president plans to send a draft of the legislation to lawmakers, though no specific timetable has been presented. āSoon, the Obama Administration will do exactly [ā¦]
April 24, 2014
Business
Transportation Sec. Foxx asks taxpayers to call Congress, demand long-term highway bill in road tour stop
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx says a short-term solution wonāt do this go-around for transportation funding, and heās on the road this week pushing theĀ Obama administrationās four-year $302 billion planĀ and making localities and citizens aware of the Highway Trust Fundās nosedive. Foxx spoke in Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday in the eighth stop of his week-longĀ Invest in [ā¦]
April 18, 2014
Business
Americans would rather pay more taxes to fund infrastructure over national defense or health care
If given the choice, more Americans would be willing to designate taxes to infrastructure than to national defense or health care, according to the results of an April 2014 Reason-Rupe poll. Released last week, the survey results feature telephone responses from 1,003 adults throughout the U.S. who answered questions on a variety of topics, including [ā¦]
April 10, 2014
Business
Can Texas make high-speed rail work? California canāt
For the last few years, Iāve been critical of Californiaās attempts to link Los Angeles to San Francisco with a high-speed rail line. Itās not that Iām reflexively against passenger rail. Itās just that California is such a political zoo, I donāt think they can do anything well when it comes to the bread-and-butter responsibilities [ā¦]
April 1, 2014
Business
Spending of state DOTs places priority on new road construction over repairs
State departments of transportation spend more each year on new road construction than on road repairs, according to a new report from Smart Growth America and Taxpayers for Common Sense. The report, āRepair Priorities 2014,ā notes that between 2009 and 2011, state DOTs collectively spent $20.4 billion on new roads, growing the nationās state-owned network [ā¦]
March 25, 2014
Roadbuilding
Could āBeer Moneyā help solve our infrastructure problem?
Country singer-songwriter Kip Moore, who will be touring with country superstar Tim McGraw this summer, is partnering with Case Construction Equipment to promote the importance of finding a solution for our nationās crumbling infrastructure. āCase knows my vision and the things that I want to accomplishā¦things that I want to doā¦we are going to do [ā¦]
March 5, 2014
Business
Obama proposes $302 billion, 4-year transportation bill, announces $600 million in competitive grants
President Barack Obama has proposed a $302 billion, four-year transportation reauthorization bill with the aim of avoiding the Highway Trust Fundās looming insolvency as well as providing a much-needed boost to the infrastructure improvements he promised during 2013ās State of the Union address. Through a White House announcement, Obama also announced that theĀ U.S. Department of [ā¦]
February 26, 2014
ConExpo-Con/Agg
How a beaten-up 1949 Hudson barely made it across the country to spread the Gospel of Infrastructure
Whatās more American than a round-the-country road trip in a vintage vehicle? Fifth-generation roadbuilder Dan McNichol has been driving a rusty, 1949 Hudson from Massachusetts to the West Coast and back with the goal of bringing attention to the dire state of roads and bridges in this country. The all-original Hudson, more than 60 years [ā¦]
February 26, 2014
Roadbuilding
Transportation in the State of the Union Address
If you think the State of the Union address is just another speech, think again. The State of the Union address, which President Obama will deliver Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, is the perfect opportunity for workers in the transportation industry to hear about how our highways and infrastructure are faring and what the [ā¦]
January 28, 2014
Construction Equipment
Highway construction project halted in Iceland to avoid disturbing home and church of āhidden elvesā
Itās not uncommon for construction and road projects to be halted due to environmental concerns. But elves? Thatās a new one on us. In Iceland, environmentalists have forged a partnership with elf advocates to convince the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission to abandon a highway construction project that would build a route from the Alftanes [ā¦]
December 23, 2013
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