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Washington State, Florida honored for ‘America’s Best Transportation Projects’

With more than 100,000 votes cast for the fourth annual America’s Transportation Awards competition, the Washington State Department of Transportation claimed the People’s Choice Award for its Operation I-5 Partnership Project. A panel of transportation experts also weighed in on its favorite project in America, selecting the Florida Department of Transportation as the Grand Prize […]

October 17, 2011

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AASHTO to President Obama: ‘State DOTs are Ready to work now’

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) supports President Barack Obama’s message to Congress in his address on Sept. 8 that calls for a $50 billion investment in transportation infrastructure to boost the nation’s struggling economy. AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley said that states, counties, and cities demonstrated the last time Congress […]

September 14, 2011

Roadbuilding

Tennessee DOT chief engineer named vice chair of AASHTO

Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) Chief Engineer Paul Degges, P.E., is honored as one of the top transportation officials in the nation. Degges, who has been with TDOT 23 years, has been selected to serve a two-year term as vice chairman of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on […]

August 5, 2011

Business

Highway Reauthorization: The (Long?) Road Ahead

AggBeat Congress moves forward with seven-month extension of highway and transit programs in the nick of time. by Tina Grady Barbaccia In early March, Congress passed another extension of highway, transit, and highway safety programs. The seven-month extension, passed by a 421-to-1 vote in the House and by voice vote in the Senate, was signed […]

March 15, 2011

Roadbuilding

House approves 7-month extension of SAFETEA-LU

The House of Representatives voted 421-4 on March 2 to extend until Sept. 30 federal highway and transit programs that are slated to expire on March 4. The bill — the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011, or H.R. 662 — will now go to the Senate. The current federal surface transportation legislation, the Safe, […]

March 3, 2011

Business

House approves 7-month extension of SAFETEA-LU

The House of Representatives voted 421-4 on March 2 to extend until Sept. 30 federal highway and transit programs that are slated to expire on March 4. The bill — the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011, or H.R. 662 — will now go to the Senate.

March 3, 2011

Safety

Tennessee DOT SmartFIX40 named as top U.S. transportation project

The Tennessee Department of Transportation’s (TDOT) SmartFIX40 project is being recognized as one of the top transportation projects in the nation. The American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials selected SmartFIX40 Contract 2 for an “America’s Transportation Award” for “On Time Completion, Medium Project” in the Southeast Region. The annual transportation awards identify achievement […]

September 1, 2010