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Safety

Final CAFE standards mean $65+ billion loss for highway, transit improvements

A July 29 Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) between 2017 and 2025 would result in the loss of more than $65 billion in federal funding for state and local highway, bridge and transit improvements, an analysis by the American […]

July 29, 2011

Home

ARTBA pres & CEO: Include ‘Infrastructure Bank’ type initiatives in new highway bill

Federal financial instruments and initiatives such as a proposed national “Infrastructure Bank” designed to attract private investment into transportation infrastructure projects should be included in the new highway/transit bill, Pete Ruane, president of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), told the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee July 20. He cautioned lawmakers, however, […]

July 20, 2011

Roadbuilding

ARTBA commends Mica for transportation plan leadership, cautions against decrease in revenue stream

Following House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Chair John Mica’s (R-Fla.) proposal on the six-year reauthorization of the committee’s Surface Transportation Program, American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President and CEO Pete Ruane issued the following statement: “We commend House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica for his leadership in moving this long-overdue […]

July 13, 2011

Business

ARTBA commends Mica for transportation plan leadership, cautions against decrease in revenue stream

We commend House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica for his leadership in moving this long-overdue process forward. Despite strong political headwinds, he has produced a proposal with much needed reforms that would reduce red tape and bureaucratic hurdles that stand in the way of many important projects critical to our economic vitality. His goal of expediting product delivery and facilitating public-private partnerships is clearly a step in the right direction."

July 13, 2011

Safety

House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal: Funding at last or financial road to ruin?

Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) and Committee leaders on July […]

July 11, 2011

Roadbuilding

House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal

Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin."

July 11, 2011

Roadbuilding

Financial District

The rules of the transportation funding game have changed in Washington.

February 1, 2011

Roadbuilding

Financial District

The rules of the transportation funding game have changed in Washington.

February 1, 2011

Home

ARTBA forecast: Drop in 2011 highway, bridge construction market

Continuing budget challenges for state and local governments, uncertainty surrounding a new long-term federal surface transportation bill, and winding down of infrastructure investment under the stimulus law will drive a 4.4 percent contraction in the U.S. highway and bridge construction market in 2011, according to the annual forecast from American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s […]

December 15, 2010

Maintenance

Transportation leaders laud 15-cent gas hike proposal

Leaders from a coalition of transportation interests are lauding a draft proposal released by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. “We applaud the draft proposal released today [Nov. 11] by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform co-chairs to increase the gas tax by 15 cents to support vital transportation infrastructure improvements. […]

November 16, 2010

Workforce

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

Roadbuilding

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