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How one city used technology and training to cut its salt budget
West Des Moines, Iowa, has implemented new technology and boosted its training efforts throughout the past few years to radically reduce the amount of deicer materials required to achieve desired and expected levels of service through use of advanced spreader controls, automated vehicle location units and educational opportunities. To find out more about how West […]
May 6, 2014
Roadbuilding
Transportation advocates discuss flaws in House GOP budget
The House Budget Committee marked up the recently-introduced House Republican 2015 fiscal year budget Wednesday evening. When the committee’s chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), introduced the $1.014 trillion bill on Tuesday, it received criticism from Democrats as well as the White House, which said the measure “would force deep cuts to investments in our roads […]
April 3, 2014
Roadbuilding
$54 billion DOT budget fails in Senate, House pulls $44.1 billion DOT spending bill
A proposed $54 billion spending bill for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development failed in the Senate Thursday, according to a report from ABC News. The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill needed 60 votes to pass, but the Senate voted 54-43 against it. Only one Republican, Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), […]
August 2, 2013
Roadbuilding
Pennsylvania’s $2 billion proposed transportation bill remains out of state budget
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed into law on Sunday the state’s $28.4 billion budget bill, while the state’s transportation bill continued to lack support from both the House and Senate, CBS Philly and the Associated Press reported. The budget plan, which passed with a 111-92 House vote before winning the Senate’s approval, would increase spending […]
July 1, 2013
Roadbuilding
House Appropriations Committee to revise USDOT, HUD budget
The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern Time to revise the proposed $44.1 billion Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations budget. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies approved the budget last week. Tomorrow’s hearing will give committee members a chance to propose […]
June 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
House Appropriations Subcommittee on transportation, housing approves $44.1 billion budget
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies yesterday approved the House Appropriation Committee’s $44.1 billion budget for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. The bill is $7.7 billion below the previous budget and $4.4 billion below the sequester level. The proposed budget will go to the […]
June 20, 2013
Roadbuilding
House Appropriations Committee releases $44.1 billion USDOT, HUD budget
[Correction: The original report stated that the proposed budget was $44 billion. This report now reflects the correct amount, $44.1 billion.] The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released a $44.1 billion budget for the departments of Transportation (USDOT) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to a release from the committee, the fiscal year 2014 Transportation, […]
June 19, 2013
Roadbuilding
Majority of Americans want tax dollars used for public transportation
Americans want to see increased funding for public transportation, according to survey data released this month from the American Public Transportation Association and the Mineta Transportation Institute. The results showed that 73.6 percent of respondents strongly supported use of taxes “for creating, expanding, and improving public transportation.” A year ago, 69 percent of respondents agreed. […]
June 4, 2013
Roadbuilding
Michigan lawmakers sign budget agreement, focus on transportation
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and Republican lawmakers signed an agreement Tuesday to set targets for the state’s budget, Crain’s Detroit Business reported. The budget is expected to be completed by Wednesday of next week. House Speaker Jase Bolger (R-MI) said the agreement puts $350 million of the state budget toward transportation. Bolger referred to the […]
May 22, 2013
Business
$2.3 billion of 2014 Army budget goes to construction
Army officials recently took time to discuss their military branch’s $129.7 billion portion of the federal budget for the 2014 fiscal year, beginning October 1st. It should come to no surprise that the vast majority of that money, 44 percent or $56.6 billion, will go to military personnel. But about $2.3 billion is marked for “military construction, […]
April 15, 2013
Roadbuilding
Bowles and Simpson try again. Again.
Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome back, Simpson and Bowles! Alan Simpson, a Republican and  Democrat Erskine Bowles have come up with a new deficit reduction plan. You will recall that the duo were co-chairs of the White House’s 2010 deficit-reduction panel, which put together a bipartisan package of tax and spending changes. That plan, of course, […]
February 20, 2013
Business
$3.54 billion capital transportation program proposed for New Jersey DOT, NJ Transit
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced a proposed Transportation capital program for NJDOT and NJ TRANSIT in the amount of $3.54 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2010. The FY 11 spending plan includes a $200 million state-funded local aid component and approaches last year’s $3.6 billion program despite an enormously […]
May 27, 2010
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