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Metso names product manager for vibrating product line

Metso Minerals has appointed Scott Snyder as product manager of its Vibrating Product Line for North America. The appointment was effective July 1, 2010. Snyder will be based in Metso’s York, Pa., office. Snyder will assume the leadership of Metso’s vibrating equipment product line, for the North American mining, construction, and mobile equipment markets. This […]

July 30, 2010

Metso names product manager for vibrating product line

Metso Minerals has appointed Scott Snyder as product manager of its Vibrating Product Line for North America. The appointment was effective July 1, 2010. Snyder will be based in Metso’s York, Pa., office. Snyder will assume the leadership of Metso’s vibrating equipment product line, for the North American mining, construction, and mobile equipment markets. This […]

July 30, 2010

Reauthorization a ‘bright spot’ but recovery hinges on highway bill, contractor tells Congress

The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin […]

July 28, 2010

Chicago area procures $100 million in TIGER grants

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation finalized a $100 grant agreement for the CREATE (Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency) program to begin work on those projects to help reduce rail bottlenecks in the Chicago region, according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In February, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced […]

July 28, 2010

Stimulus a ‘bright spot’ but recovery hinges on highway bill, contractor tells Congress

The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).,The highway investments in the stimulus law have been a bright spot for the transportation construction industry that has been hit hard hit by recession-induced cutbacks in state programs and decline in private sector work, continued uncertainty about passage of a multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill is hindering chances for a sustained economic recovery, Kevin Gannon, vice president of Appleton, Wis.-based Northeast Asphalt, Inc., told Congress at a July 27 House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee hearing on implementation of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

July 28, 2010

$80 billion needed to shore up U.S. rail, bus systems

A new study by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) released on July 21 estimates it would cost $77.7 billion to shore up the nation’s rail and bus lines and another $14.4 billion a year to maintain the systems, according to a report in On the Money, Capitol Hill’s finance and economy blog. The study, the […]

July 28, 2010

Rep. Mica: Despite efforts, ‘gas tax is dead’

U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-FL), the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican leader, at a July 27 Congressional oversight hearing, declared dead a federal gas tax increase to fund a long-term transportation bill. Although some leading Democrats support a gas tax increase in the next surface transportation reauthorization, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, […]

July 28, 2010

Wakota Bridge tops mid-season list of completed construction projects

The opening of the eastbound Interstate 494 Wakota Bridge in the southeast Twin Cities Metro Area tops a list of 51 state highway and bridge projects totaling $113.37 million that the Minnesota Department of Transportation has completed so far this year. “We are halfway through the largest road construction program in our state’s history and […]

July 23, 2010

AED: Recession is construction equipment industry depression

Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) 2010 National Chairman Dennis Vander Molen, president and general manager of Vermeer MidSouth, testified before two U.S. House of Representatives committees on key parts of the equipment industry recovery agenda. “The economic recession has been a construction equipment industry depression,” Vander Molen said. “We need to keep up the drumbeat and […]

July 21, 2010

Federal Transit Administration awards $5 million to the ARTIC Project

The Federal Transit Administration (FAA) awarded $5 Million to the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) for its project set to break ground next year. The project will build a transportation hub with hopes that it will assist in stimulating the local economy. ARTIC was among 47 projects awarded money through the Federal Transit Administration’s […]

July 21, 2010

AISI to Congress: Thanks for job creation focus

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) sent a letter commending House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) for his efforts to turn Congress’s focus to job creation and U.S. manufacturing and offering policy recommendations that Congress should enact in order to advance a national pro-manufacturing strategy and improve the nation’s economic security. As the U.S. […]

July 21, 2010

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