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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, “Repair Priorities 2014,” notes that between 2009 and 2011, state DOTs collectively spent $20.4 billion on new roads, growing the nation’s state-owned network […]

March 25, 2014

ConExpo-Con/Agg

How a beaten-up 1949 Hudson barely made it across the country to spread the Gospel of Infrastructure

What’s 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 […]

February 26, 2014

Business

Dire States: Former road builder drives rust bucket across America to demonstrate the sorry state of infrastructure

What do a 1949 Hudson Commodore and America’s infrastructure have in common? They’re both old, neglected and in need of refurbishment. Inspired by the D+ grade given to America’s infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Case Construction Equipment and infrastructure author Dan McNichol have decided to set out on a tour across the […]

September 20, 2013

Roadbuilding

Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Pres. Obama

I’m going to have a to go along with Mark on this one. According to Mark Szakonyi writing in The Journal of Commerce, “There are two President Obamas when it comes to infrastructure spending.” The president has continued to talk about his commitment to a stronger transportation infrastructure and to showcase his awareness that it […]

August 5, 2013

Business

U.S. infrastructure spending has plummeted in last 5 years

According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, infrastructure spending in the U.S. has plummeted in the last five years. Citing data that began in 2002, Better Roads reports that highway and road construction spending began a major decline in 2009. It should come to no surprise that the culprit is the country’s […]

May 30, 2013

Roadbuilding

U.S. infrastructure spending has sharply declined in past five years

The collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington State has sparked a number of conversations about infrastructure spending in the United States. Though the Skagit River Bridge was only considered functionally obsolete rather than structurally deficient (meaning it was built to older standards but not necessarily unsafe), some reports point […]

May 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

Obama’s 2014 budget provides $50 billion increase in infrastructure spending

President Barack Obama on April 10 presented Congress with a $3.8 trillion budget plan for the 2014 fiscal year, which includes $50 billion for infrastructure spending, according to the Associated Press. The $50 billion is intended for infrastructure investments and includes $40 bllion for a “Fix It First” effort. Fix It First is meant to […]

April 10, 2013

Roadbuilding

Are We Choosing Failure Over Success?

We careen along a path of self-destruction and cloak it in the illusion of fiscal responsibility.

April 3, 2013

Roadbuilding

U.S. infrastructure headed toward $1.6 trillion deficit in 2020, ASCE says

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) warns that United States infrastructure will fall $1.6 trillion short of what’s needed to maintain existing facilities through 2020, according to a Bloomberg report. “We’re investing in infrastructure, we’re just not investing enough,” Greg DiLoreto, president of the ASCE, told Bloomberg. The ASCE says 80 percent more–$3.6 trillion–funding […]

March 26, 2013

Roadbuilding

Big Bang Theory for Highway Grants

Give a state a fish… no wait.  Teach a state to fish. Consider this: for every dollar in federal highway grants received by a state, that state’s GSP (gross state product) rises by at least two dollars. That’s in good times. In bad times the multiplier is bigger. A new report from the Federal Reserve […]

November 27, 2012

Roadbuilding

GUEST BLOG: What the re-election of President Obama, Republican House majority, Democratic Senate majority means for the construction industry

During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney gave relative lip service to the subject of rebuilding America’s faltering infrastructure. Rather than positioning infrastructure as an integral part of the nation’s fabric, both treated construction funding as little more than a jobs generator. What’s more, many of the electorate (and fiscally […]

November 12, 2012

Roadbuilding

House GOP seeks to pass transportation bill by Dec. 31

U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.,U.S. House Republicans are proposing to pass a five-year transportation authorization bill by Dec. 31 that would be paid for in part by expanding domestic energy production through offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, oil shale and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The plan, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), seeks reforms and cuts in infrastructure programs. It also eliminates “transportation enhancements” that states now finance from federal highway money.

November 20, 2011