Tag: Infrastructure: Page 62

Freeways we could do without

A good transportation infrastructure policy ought to enable communities to identify where more roads are needed and desired and where some need to be eliminated. This list certainly makes a good stab at the latter; and as for number one on it’s hit list, the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, I agree, it’s ugly as sin. […]

January 10, 2010

Note to governors: Build the roads, business will come

Toyota Tundra, Haywood County Tennessee, Governor Phil Bredesen, infrastructure

January 10, 2010

Infrastructure boom in Afghanistan

There’s work if you know where to look. Most of this is to support the mini-surge of some 30,000 additional troops. Construction is being performed by private contractors, Seabees and engineering units.

January 6, 2010

It’s high time we came up with a highway funding solution

It’s no surprise that the Highway Trust Fund, or HTF, is almost insolvent again. We’ve known the time is coming. Last year, we managed to keep it going with the transfer of about $8 billion from the General Trust Fund. But now we’re in trouble again. We’ve been talking about it and writing about […]

January 6, 2010

Small business may suffer under Obama

The construction and manufacturing industries are hoping for a few crumbs from the $850 billion stimulus bill. As we documented in the post below, it won’t be much and it won’t stimulate anything except the government payrolls. What’s even more troubling about the lack of infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill is the very real possibility that […]

January 6, 2010

Rust never sleeps

The worldwide cost of corrosion: $276-billion per year in the U.S. alone, according to the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. The lion’s share of this comes from utilities, transportation and infrastructure facilities.

January 6, 2010

Public-private partnerships take the slow road

Reuters held an “Infrastructure Summit” in New York this week and one of the more interesting outcomes held that public-private partnerships (P3s as they say) will likely have to lower their expectations in the near future. Even though P3s were once hailed as a solution to the shortage of infrastructure funds in state coffers, the […]

January 6, 2010

American Society of Highway Engineers joins Roadway Infrastructure Safety Coalition

The American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) has joined The Roadway Infrastructure Safety Coalition (RISC). RISC was created to work to reduce deaths on America’s roadways by improving roadway safety infrastructure through the federal legislative, regulatory and budgetary process. Evidence suggests that roadway infrastructure plays a significant role in as much as one third […]

January 6, 2010

A Roadmap to Recovery

Vice President Joe Biden is presenting to President Barack Obama the Roadmap to Recovery at today’s Cabinet meeting. The Roadmap is an Administration-wide effort to accelerate implementation of the stimulus act in its second 100 days. The White House says the Roadmap spotlights 10 new major projects that will define the next three months of […]

January 6, 2010

Germans, Danes pull back from mega-bridge project

Pity too. It’s such a beautiful piece of engineering. The price tag and the utility of a third bridge connecting Germany to Denmark, seem to be giving everybody cold feet. But at $6 billion, that’s less than half the cost of Boston’s Big Dig.

January 5, 2010

What this election means to you

Elections have a huge impact on transportation funding issues. ARTBA has the scoop here on what the musical chairs game means in Washinton D.C.

January 5, 2010

Step away from the computer and pick up the phone TODAY

Just pick up the phone. You know you can do it. Step away from the computer and do things what has become “the old-fashioned way.” Use your voice and make it heard today as part of the Transportation Construction Coalition’s (TCC) phone blitz to Congress. The TCC has organized a nationwide call-in TODAY, Dec. 10, to […]

December 10, 2009

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