Tag: surface transportation legislation

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Get politicians out to the noisiest, dirtiest, nastiest job site you have.

December 1, 2012

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Get politicians out to the noisiest, dirtiest, nastiest job site you have.

December 1, 2012

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

Don’t modify transportation issue bipartisanship by adding a “now and then” to it.

November 13, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

Mapping Map21’s reforms, an earmark windfall, cement industry backs new standard and other industry news items are featured.

September 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

Mapping Map21’s reforms, an earmark windfall, cement industry backs new standard and other industry news items are featured.

September 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

We get to it when we get to it

I think maybe Congress is using  one of Salvador Dali’s clocks to figure out when we might be a reauthorization bill. Then again, I suppose progress wasn’t supposed to be predictably smooth. Take progress on a new surface transportation bill. Congress is back and this legislation is expected to take a spot close to center […]

January 18, 2012

Safety

Sens. Boxer and Inhofe release outline for bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member, on July 19 released an outline for Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), a bipartisan proposal to reauthorize the nation’s transportation programs for two years. (Click here for an archived Webcast of […]

July 26, 2011

Roadbuilding

Obama signs defense bill which extends highway spending through February

Pres. Barack Obama signed the  U.S. Department of Defense appropriations bill, which  includes an extension of current surface transportation law (SAFETEA-LU) through February 28, 2010, according to a report from the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA). The U.S. Senate approved the House-passed measure on Saturday by a vote of 88-10, according to the ACPA report. House […]

December 21, 2009

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks: What to Research Next Year

Assuming that new surface transportation legislation will eventually arrive, the Federal Highway Administration has moved to develop a planning and environment research program for FY 2010. You now have the chance to deliver your input to FHWA before the program is finalized.

October 1, 2009