Tag: transportation infrastructure: Page 5

Roadbuilding

Roads and bridges in Pennsylvania fail to make the grade

Long story short: Pennsylvania’s roads and bridges need a lot of work. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the state has the worst transportation infrastructure in America. ASCE gave the state a D-minues grade, the worst of any other state, citing 44 percent of the roads in Pennsylvania are in poor condition. Without […]

August 27, 2014

Roadbuilding

POLL: Majority of Americans would rather pay tolls than taxes

73 percent of Americans agree that transportation spending is inefficient and most would rather pay for highway repairs with tolls instead of taxes, according to a Reason-Rupe poll. Out of the 1,000 people surveyed, 58 percent say they would rather pay for transportation projects with tolls. Only 32 percent would prefer to pay for the projects […]

August 18, 2014

Roadbuilding

VP Biden explains the importance of transportation infrastructure

Vice President Joe Biden wants to change the way the United States invests in transportation infrastructure. Biden calls it the “Grow America Act.” Watch Biden explain his plan and the importance of transportation infrastructure by clicking play on the video below! What do you think of Biden’s plan? Share your thoughts in a comment below!

July 25, 2014

Roadbuilding

Obama pushes for transportation funding during Key Bridge visit

During his visit to the Key Bridge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, President Barack Obama urged Congress to quickly pass a highway bill to prevent Highway Trust Fund (HTF) insolvency, The Hill reports. The HTF is a major source of funding for state and local highway projects. However, money in the fund is projected to […]

July 1, 2014

Roadbuilding

A Penny for Your Transportation System

I’d love to hear what innovative (but legal!) ways your agencies or contracting business have funded projects.

February 10, 2014

Roadbuilding

Where, oh where can that road money be?

A Congress that cannot agree pass a budget or even agree not to default on loans is not a group that will ever solve the impending road-funding crisis.

November 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Policy forum in Denver focuses on infrastructure investment

[Correction: This article previously listed Ed Rendell as the former governor of Colorado. It has been edited to reflect Rendell’s correct title, former Pennsylvania governor.] Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell met with leaders from local governments and in engineering and business at a policy forum in Denver, Colorado, to discuss local and national challenges associated […]

October 24, 2013

Roadbuilding

Senate Commerce Committee to meet Tuesday about private transportation funding

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss potential private sector sources of transportation infrastructure funding, according to a report from The Hill. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) said Tuesday that lawmakers need to make a bipartisan effort to put in place transportation funding. “Congress has shown neither […]

September 24, 2013

Roadbuilding

Invite Them and They Will Come

Find the local reporters covering your industry and invite them to your office and out to a jobsite.

August 7, 2013

Business

Surveys find Americans willing to support 10-cent fuel tax increase to maintain roads

Ever wonder why some research studies show substantial public support for increased fuel taxes and other studies show the opposite? It turns out, it’s all in how you ask the question. Exhaustive proof of that is provided in the Mineta Transportation Institute’s fourth annual survey of public opinion about paying additional taxes to support transportation […]

August 1, 2013

Roadbuilding

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

But if you try sometimes, you might just get Amtrak what it needs. And a little street cred is what it needs. I wrote a column for the print issue of Better Roads not too many months ago with the headline “Angelina Jolie.” Within that column I suggested, not entirely facetiously, that the transportation infrastructure […]

June 27, 2013

Business

Recent talks suggest Congress has put transportation funding on the back burner

After attending last week’s Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) fly-in visit with Congress, John Latta, the editor of our sister site Better Roads, writes that the overall feeling among the contractors and agency officials that were there is that lawmakers do not share their sense of urgency about securing funding for transportation infrastructure. “A common theme they heard […]

June 11, 2013