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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

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

Pleased with initial drone bridge inspections, Minnesota DOT plans to push aircraft’s capabilities further

Drones could become the primary method for bridge inspections for the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The department has been impressed by the initial tests run with the technology and are planning to push its capabilities further with a second phase of testing next month. According to Minnesota Public Radio, MnDOT is getting ready enter the second and […]

October 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

House Majority leader pledges to pass a long-term highway bill

The favorite to replace John Boehner (R-Ohio) as the Speaker of the House has gone on record vowing to pass a six-year highway bill before the October 31 deadline. The Hill reported that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that if he were elected to the Speaker position once Boehner […]

October 1, 2015

Roadbuilding

Four contractors compete for $1.1 billion I-285/GA 400 interchange project in Atlanta

Georgia is set to spend more money than it’s ever spent on a road project to redesign and reconstruct the Interstate 285/GA 400 interchange for $1.1 billion, but first, the state has to decide who’s going to the work. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports four teams of contractors have submitted their proposals to take on the $1.1 billion project. […]

September 30, 2015

Roadbuilding

Music to your gears: Artist uses New York traffic to create musical notes

An artist from Brazil has turned cars driving down a New York highway into a musical notes to compose a song that follows the flow of traffic. For his latest musical arrangement, titled “Cars on the Lanes,” Jarbas Agnelli used a video of one section of a New York City freeway, and assigned musical notes to cars […]

September 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

Florida DOT wins grand prize at America’s Transportation Awards National Competition

The Florida Department of Transportation took home top honors at the 2015 America’s Transportation Awards on Sunday. FDOT beat out the competition of 48 transportation projects from 24 states and won the Grand Prize for the state’s $670 million Port of Miami Tunnel Project,  according to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. But the […]

September 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

Caterpillar CEO says Congress’ inaction on long-term highway bill threatens nation’s future

The chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc. is again speaking out in favor of a long-term highway bill. Doug Oberhelman wrote a column for CNBC published September 17 calling Congress to work to pass a long-term transportation bill as the deadline for the October 29 expiration of the Highway Trust Fund looms closer. He wrote a similar […]

September 24, 2015