Tag: transportation and infrastructure

Roadbuilding

As highway reauthorization hearing nears, ARTBA proposes 15-cent gas tax increase for 10-year funding

A proposal dubbed “Getting Beyond Gridlock” by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) would raise $401 billion for highway and mass transit capital investments via a 15-cents-per-gallon increase in federal gas and diesel fuel taxes. The proposal comes less than a week before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee holds a hearing on “reauthorizing” federal surface […]

March 13, 2015

Business

25% of U.S. bridges declared deficient in 2012

According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, 25 percent, or 151,845 of all U.S. bridges were classified as deficient in 2012. Those numbers were a part of the U.S. Government Accountability Office ‘s(GAO) testimony last week before the Senate Commitee on Appropriations’ Subcomittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Better […]

June 18, 2013

Business

Are Americans “not willing to pay” for longer-lasting roads?

Over at our sister site Better Roads, columnist Kirk Landers has put together a pretty interesting, and brutally honest, estimation of the glaring discrepancy between Americans’ calls for quality, longer-lasting roads and their willingness to pay for them. You see, it’s pothole season, the time of year when road crews all over the nation get […]

May 13, 2013

Roadbuilding

GUEST BLOG POST: The Time is NOW – Fighting for the Future of Roadway Safety

by Scott F. Belcher, president and CEO, Intelligent Transportation Society of America As we count down to the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s (ITSA) Annual Meeting to be held in Nashville this April, there’s never been a more critical time for all of us who are working to ensure America’s leadership in transportation and infrastructure, […]

February 15, 2013