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Pew charts display need for transportation investment
You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it increasingly more as September draws closer: The highways and infrastructure in the U.S. need greater investment. The current highway bill, MAP-21, will expire in September, and Congress is working to pass a new bill before that expiration date. The Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled this week to […]
May 5, 2014
Roadbuilding
They cost how much! Are they worth it?
Checking out some British road building news and came across an interesting commentary by the architecture correspondent of The Guardian newspaper. It came packaged with an online story about two new, short, roads in Britain. The first in Scotland cost about $120,000 a yard ($210M a mile). The second is a road through a tunnel […]
June 27, 2011
Roadbuilding
Texas’ transportation funding nightmare
Here is a very scary prediction: “By 2025, only 21 percent of Texas’ roads will be in good or better condition.” It’s not my prediction, it comes from the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, and its contained in a story from the Houston Chronicle’s chron.com. The story should upset us. It […]
March 10, 2011
Roadbuilding
Highway investment hits $20 billion
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) crossed the $20 billion mark in approved obligations for highway, road and bridge projects this week, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. Of the $26.6 billion available for federal highway and bridge projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), more than 75 percent has now been obligated. […]
November 3, 2009
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