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Construction Equipment

‘I Make America’ campaign turns 1; celebrates with virtual march on D.C. for infrastructure investment

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign celebrated the campaign’s first anniversary, and to mark the occasion, industry supporters held a virtual march on Washington, D.C. AEM called on its supporters to send letters, sign a petition, and call their elected officials in Congress to demand they take a stand […]

October 6, 2011

Roadbuilding

‘I Make America’ campaign turns 1; celebrates with virtual march on D.C. for infrastructure investment

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign celebrated the campaign’s first anniversary, and to mark the occasion, industry supporters held a virtual march on Washington, D.C. AEM called on its supporters to send letters, sign a petition, and call their elected officials in Congress to demand they take a stand […]

October 6, 2011

Business

Hundreds converge in O.C. to help get Americans back to work

More than 250 people came together on Aug. 31 in a first-of-its kind summit to discuss factors that create jobs and offer solutions to expediting transportation projects for America’s future, according to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). The Jobs Now Summit brought together transportation officials, business leaders, economists, labor representatives and workers throughout the […]

September 14, 2011

Roadbuilding

Congress, send me that bill!

I keep wondering if there is a tipping point for our transportation infrastructure, a point where the entire game changes. Somewhat in the way a breached levee in New Orleans changed the work being done to defend the city against Hurricane Katrina. What was being done was superseded by a new, sudden and powerful reality. […]

August 12, 2011

Roadbuilding

Dueling Proposals

Okay folks if you look out the left side of the aircraft you can see crumbling infrastructure and if you look out the right side you can see a crumbling economy. Now let’s try and land this thing. House Republicans are looking out the right side of the plane and Senate Democrats out of the […]

July 11, 2011

Roadbuilding

Job Loses (count ‘em) Under Mica Bill — Dems

Democrats say the Mica surface transportation proposal would cost every states jobs over it’s six year span. The total: 490,627 jobs. Here’s their state by state count: Check out the table that outlines each state’s job loss according to the Democrats.

July 8, 2011

Roadbuilding

A Closer Look at the Mica Proposal

It’s a start. Give the Chairman credit for getting us beyond hot air and into a document. Reading through John Mica’s House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s reauthorization proposal and there’s no way to avoid the obvious reaction: this is not a lot of money. There are of course three major factors chairman Mica uses to […]

July 8, 2011

Roadbuilding

Reauthorization Proposal Overview

Here’s a summary of the reauthorization proposal from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as it affects road and bridge industries. *Funding: Provides $230 billion over six years from the Highway Trust Fund – consistent with the amount of revenue deposited into the Highway Trust Fund during that time frame. *Better Leverage Existing Resources: Funds […]

July 7, 2011

Roadbuilding

Mica’s “back-of-the-envelope” bill is here

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica has just ended a two-hour webcast introduction of the $230B, six-year bill that he wants to replace SAFETEA-LU. Now I have to go through the bill itself to find the details. His core points were that this is a six year bill because a two year bill […]

July 7, 2011

Roadbuilding

A Small Bill

It’s the sort of story you don’t want to read because it will confirm the bad news you feared. Yet here it is in the Washington Post. Soon, maybe tomorrow, a bill to replace SAFETEA-LU will emerge from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. According to the Post, and also to a lot of people […]

July 6, 2011

Roadbuilding

They cost how much! Are they worth it?

Checking out some British road building news and came across an interesting commentary by the architecture correspondent of The Guardian newspaper. It came packaged with an online story about two new, short, roads in Britain. The first in Scotland cost about $120,000 a yard ($210M a mile). The second is a road through a tunnel […]

June 27, 2011

Roadbuilding

John Deere sponsors High School Academy of Science and Engineering in AEM Construction Challenge

To help educate students considering careers in the construction industry, John Deere Construction & Forestry sponsored a team from the Bartlett, Ill., High School Academy of Science and Engineering in this year’s Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge. The event, now in its fifth year, was held recently in Las Vegas at ConExpo, the […]

May 5, 2011