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Yet another patch passed by House would extend highway funding through Dec. 4 as Congress works out long-term bill

Despite talk that Congress wanted to have a long-term transportation bill on President Barack Obama’s desk by next week, a meaningful highway bill won’t be something to be thankful for by Thanksgiving. The House of Representatives passed the 36th straight short-term patch to the Highway Trust Fund Monday night to extend funding through Dec. 4 […]

November 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

Obama signs 3-week transportation funding patch into law

President Barack Obama has signed into law a three-week patch to the Highway Trust Fund to prevent a transportation funding stoppage while lawmakers attempt to pass a long-term highway bill. It marks the 35th short-term patch of the bill since 2008. According to the White House, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 was signed into law […]

October 30, 2015

Roadbuilding

Senate sends 3-week transportation funding patch to Obama’s desk

The Senate has passed a three-week patch to the Highway Trust Fund just a day before it was set to expire, sending the bill to the Oval Office. The Hill reported the Senate followed in the footsteps of the House of Representatives—which passed the patch Tuesday—and quickly passed the short-term measure to extend road spending until Nov. 20. […]

October 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

House passes 3-week Highway Trust Fund patch for time needed to craft long-term bill

The House of Representatives has passed another short-term transportation funding patch, but the countdown to another deadline will go by much faster this time around. Lawmakers in the House approved the three-week measure Tuesday, just two days before the Oct. 29 expiration date of the Highway Trust Fund. It’s the the 35th short-term HTF patch since 2008. But […]

October 28, 2015

Roadbuilding

House lawmakers propose one more highway funding patch while working on long-term bill

With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire this week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives have proposed a three- week patch to give them time to work on a long-term transportation funding bill. The House introduced the measure to fund and extend transportation programs through Nov. 20. Only extending the HTF by three weeks signals that lawmakers in […]

October 27, 2015

Roadbuilding

House transportation committee approves 6-year highway bill

The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved a six-year, $325 billion transportation bill. The committee announced it had unanimously approved the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 Thursday afternoon after it was introduced for markup earlier in the morning. But with an approaching October 29 deadline for the expiration of the […]

October 23, 2015

Roadbuilding

All 19 Democratic governors join together to urge Congress to act on a highway bill soon

Every single Democratic governor in the U.S. has joined together to send Congress a letter urging lawmakers to finally pass a long-term transportation bill. The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) said in a press release that the unanimous letter—the first in years with full support—called for Congress to do more than just pass a transportation patch. The […]

October 21, 2015

Roadbuilding

House transportation committee schedules transportation bill markup

At least one committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has signaled it’s ready to make a move on a transportation bill by putting a markup on the schedule for next week. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) announced in a press release that the committee has scheduled a markup of surface transportation […]

October 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

AAA poll finds 70% of Americans want Congress to spend more on roads

Nearly three-fourths of Americans are ready for Congress to finally increase the amount of money that gets spent on roads and bridges, according to a new poll from AAA. The poll found 70 percent of Americans are in favor of the federal government spending more on the country’s infrastructure. Moreover, only 38 percent think Congress is doing enough to make sure roads, […]

October 14, 2015

Roadbuilding

Lack of funding front and center in ARTBA Student Transportation Video Contest winners

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association named two students the winners of the fifth edition of the organization’s Student Transportation Video Contest. ARTBA announced that Maryland high school student De’Jia Long-Hillie and University of North Texas undergraduate Alexis Gamboa were named the winners of this year’s contest. ARTBA said the goal of the contest is […]

October 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

Virginia DOT gets $55.5 million in extra federal funds for road work

The Federal Highway Administration recently reallocated $55.5 million in federal funds to Virginia that will go toward repaving 400 miles of roadways and improving 17 Interstate bridges across the state. The money was initially allocated to other states, but the FHWA reviews funding each fall to see which states will be able to put the federal funding to […]

October 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

PennDOT accepting applications for transportation project funding

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced it’s accepting applications for $40 million in grants available for transportation projects next fiscal year. PennDOT announced that it will begin taking proposals for projects through December 18 under the state’s Multimodal Transportation Fund, which was created in 2013 with the state’s Act 89 transportation funding plan. “The fund allows us […]

October 2, 2015